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Akritai were locals who were to be used as the defenders of the borders instead of deploying regular Army or mercenaries. For this reason they were given land (so as to have skin i…

To be fair, the Akritai was the Byzantine Empire's effort to use the local population to defend the land, instead of having to deploy regular Army or mercenaries. It happened to be…

This is a very simplified and uninformed view of what the Akritai were. The name choice is so wrong, it cannot even be called out as cultural appropriation, because it is far worse…

Not yet, but it is in my wishlist :)

I wrote the blog post just to expand a bit on the reply I gave on twitter because of the excerpt from "The Roots of Lisp". I never really expected to see on the HackerNews first pa…

Easier link http://wambook.sf.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_sta...

I asked over at OR-Exchange ( http://www.or-exchange.com/questions/433/optimization-methods-for-logical-inference ) and I am asking here, if anybody knows: I was browsing through o…

Although I agree with the arguments, I cannot (yet?) agree with the final outcome.

You would because you are Greek and understand it. But what if it was Cyrillic or Chinese instead?

Would you click on (or type) a link that contains Punycode? Or even on a link that contains localized characters? Example: http://www.εδετ.gr and http://www.xn--pxabb4d.gr (they ar…