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by epsylon 14y ago
Democracy != Elections In Ancient Greece, elections were considered (rightfully) as oligarchic, and sortition was the true instrument of democracy. Sure, their democracy was flawed (not everyone was a citizen), but it's still better than ou
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by epsylon 14y ago
Yep. The problem with modern shoes is that they give people the bad habit of hitting the ground with their heel, the shoe compensating the shock with some kind of absorption. The "secret" is simple is to simply run using the ball of the foo
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by epsylon 14y ago
I also happen to bike to work and it's indeed a refreshing experience. For me, the hard part is on the morning where the ride is 10km of climbing only — it starts in somewhat traffic heavy streets and ends in a peaceful quiet forest. The g
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by epsylon 14y ago
The quotes don't work on US-international layout.
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by epsylon 14y ago
The best way to deepen your knowledge is to buy books as a complementary. If you were interested by the AI class, for example, a good complement is Norvig / Russell's AI book, and if you want to know more about robotics Thrun's book is exce
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by epsylon 14y ago
> for a little over the price of the high end MacBook Pro (about $3000 with tax), I could build you a 64-core AMD G34 with 64 gigabytes of RAM Can you detail how you would achieve that ? 3000 $ seems insanely low to me.
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by epsylon 14y ago
I don't understand why people praise a journalist for doing his job (that is, not being a total Apple fanboy). I guess I have different standards towards (tech) journalism.
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by epsylon 14y ago
udacity makes profit by putting in contact their best students with recruiters.