Just a thought: While I agree with your premise, I would avoid using reddit terminology in the context of hubski. It is a different site, and people seem to be proud of that.

And therein lies the (perceived) problem: not that you want good parts of reddit to be implemented here, but that you say that they should translate over. hubski has become a replacement reddit for a good many people since the TheoryOfReddit post it would seem, including myself. However, it is not a copy, nor is it intended to function purely as such a replacement. Translate over implies that replacing reddit is hubski's only function, when it clearly is more than that.

Basically, I think that sometimes people overreact, but I can easily see where they're coming from, and it's not an unreasonable place.

Well the other side of that is that modern food options make it easy to get fat regardless.

seconded

Alright, I'm a student, applying to college. I live in the United States, which is having some difficult times right now in terms of politics. Most of what I do is study, or avoid studying through Kerbal Space Program.

While I agree that Romney might have been able to pull off more compromises, I don't think that faith in government is more important than reasonable policies, which Romney really didn't have any of. I would go so far as to say that it's far preferable to have a government that accomplishes nothing than one that changes things in a negative direction, e.g. cutting health care, obfuscation of budget plans, necessary tax hikes falling on the poor and middle class instead of the rich, etc. In fact, given current Republican willingness to put this country on the line for corporations and the upper class, I would be happy to see a presidential term with no negative change. The positive change can happen once the Tea Party representatives are gone; for now, just hold the line.

What were the results of the test? I MUST KNOW

hubski tagging: actually an HIV test

Here's a good argument against. My friend recently bought a new laptop, which came preloaded with Windows 8. For reasons that will be obvious to some, he wanted to install windows 7 on it. The UEFI SecureBoot prevented him from even booting into the install DVD, until I disabled it in the BIOS. It's only one step for manufacturers to lock the BIOS setting, and suddenly the computer is usable with not only just windows, but only the original copy.

Mmmm poptarts with less death

I will as soon as I get accepted somewhere!

I have absolutely no faith in the capitalist system. It puts great value on making money and every other selfish pursuit, and relying on individual human decency to check individual human greed will never work.

That said, I think that it is the only viable system, when put broadly. I believe in the concept of free trade as a useful tool for enhancing an economy, but it needs heavy regulation. I also think that public services should be nationalized, and I use a broad definition of public service. That is to say, pharmaceuticals, energy, telecommunications, etc. When a society puts a price on such things, good rarely comes of it.

Chemical engineering, with a likely minor in computer science.

On the other hand, the very fact of those long, thought out posts means that navigating to the next one after reading or leaving the page can be quite difficult without collapsibility.

1. The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Really interesting situation, and the pacing and sequence of events is flawless.

2. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Funny if inappropriate book about ecoterrorism, written from the point of view of the ecoterrorists.

3. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin. This is just a lovely high fantasy book with a (mostly) great series accompanying.

4. Sabriel by Garth Nix. Honestly this was just really entertaining, with a well developed and nonstandard mechanic being central.

5. Foundation by Isaac Asimov, and the rest of the series. Predictions of the future, scifi, politics, group psychology, really good stuff.

I have a hilarious mental image right now of someone running screaming out of a theater ripping their shirt off.

It also does this on the feed after following a category.

Wow, that's a legitimately controversial opinion. I might agree, up to a point. However, a year might be pushing it, a lot of development has already happened by then. In general though, if a baby is going to have a terrible life, due to poverty, disorders, whatever, that seems reasonable. After adoption has been attempted.

I feel like a terrible person now.

This is really interesting; I hadn't thought about online discourse this way before.

Personally, the knowledge of a task well completed contributes to the emotional feeling of success. If I merely find myself emotionally satisfied, or only logically satisfied, I usually have to reevaluate how important that task was.

That would be pretty hilarious.

It really is a wonderful book, if a little dark.

This is intriguing, but I'm not sure I could get past the whole coating your lungs in tar and inhaling formaldehyde bit.

I think in this case Boehner plays the part of dictator of a dying regime.

I understand the unwillingness to be seen as a reddit clone, but I think that there's something worthwhile to being able to easily access only one tag. It's not the same as a subreddit. While you get a group of posts tagged with whatever you looked up, they weren't submitted to the same place, they merely had the same tag, or, in some cases, the community assigned it that tag.

More importantly, though, is that, every now and again, I want to look through only political submissions, for example. I don't want to have my entire feed be only #politics all the time, but I do want the ability to access single categories at a time. And again, I think that there is a clear difference that sets tagging apart from subreddits: there are no clear 'spaces' for tags, users tag as they please.

Unless you have every new package name on hand, which will take longer to get than a packaged installer, ninite is faster.

I couldn't tell you if you missed anything, as many programming languages cover the same things, but I would recommend starting with Java. That's what I did, and it's worked out really well. Also, it's useful to have a powerful, compiled, cross-platform language under your belt. Java is faster than interpreted Python (for most applications) and runs on most everything.

Actually I would say it's perfectly reasonable to defend like that; it's when we start arguing about souls that it gets difficult. Personally, though, I'm a subscriber to the philosophy of "if you find it morally objectionable, don't participate".

I find it sad that this sort of reasonable and well backed opinion is controversial in today's world.

do you mean as in submit a post?