>I regularly go a couple days in a row with no sleep at all so that was amazing.

Yeah I routinely have sleepless nights as well which was what prompted trying weed in the first place - I was complaining about how sleeping pills knock me out but then I can't wake up again in the morning. I was always oversleeping my alarm and repeatedly showing up late to work. One of my stoner friends suggested I try smoking pot every night before bed and it worked. I didn't really have a problem with it until I discovered that smoking right when I woke up took the haze away from the night before and gave me an appetite for breakfast (before then I would mostly just not eat until lunch). After that it was all she wrote, I was (slightly) high all day every day for about the last five years, starting when I woke up and then I would get extremely baked right before bed. My wife never smoked in the mornings but she would smoke with me at night - for some reasons in the mornings it gave me energy, but in the evenings it made me tired - for her it just made her tired any time of the day.

So now I have sleeping problems again but at this point I'd rather have a sleepless night every now and again than keep spending the money we have been spending on this shit.

That would be a lot of fun! :)

some warty looking citrus type thing

That sounds like ugli fruit (which I think is a pretty amusing name).

I'd just like to offer my own $0.02 and say that I agree with thundara, imo if you dropped the tag limit it would benefit the hubski experience immensely.

Mining is not very profitable anymore unless you have an ASIC, which is a very expensive computer created specifically to mine them. Mining difficulty rises over time. When it started, you could mine with your CPU and make a profit. You can still do that now, but it's a waste - it uses far more electricity than you will gain in bitcoins. GPU is slightly better, just about break even iirc (like converting electricity into bitcoins). I'm running a java GPU miner right now (http://bitminter.com). As ASIC's get more popular and more common, GPU mining will enter obsolescence just like CPU mining did.

In other words, bitcoin mining has entered the big leagues.

Lol, when did they accuse me of that? Sounds like they're scared of a little competition.

Let me put it another way. Wikipedia links are so popular on reddit that I will see one on my front page most of the time... and yes, part of that is because I subscribe to learning/history subreddits that feature mostly articles, and Wikipedia articles are a great source of information. However, sometimes I just get tired of seeing them all the time, so I go into RES and ignore that domain. I usually keep it that way for a week or so, until I realize I haven't seen a Wikipedia article in a while, and I'll go back into RES and disable the filter.

It's just a whim, personal preference that goes back and forth, sometimes I like them, sometimes I get tired of them for a bit and want to read something else. I do the same thing with my subreddit subscriptions, I will subscribe or unsubscribe to the same subreddits frequently, simply on a whim. I do the same thing with the tags I follow on hubski as well. I just like the power to be able to customize my own feed exactly the way I want it, when I want it that way... surely other people can understand that?

If there were a 3rd party extension that did the same things RES does for reddit, I'd just use that instead. Reddit doesn't support filtering natively, because that's not how reddit it supposed to work. Ideally the mods would like you to downvote instead of hiding the post. A downvote on reddit is a form of distributed moderation... users vote by their taste, and then the "best" content rises to the top. That's the plan, anyway.

Hubski is completely different. There are no mods, there are no votes, you simply share what you like, ignore what you dislike. Filtering is a core part of the hubski experience... why not extend that control to domains in addition to users and tags? It just seems like the next logical step to me.

Perhaps wikipedia was not the best example. What if you really like the content a specific user posts, but simply dislike one blog that this users posts daily. You could ignore the user, but you'd be missing out on all of the other great things they have to share. You could use the community tag feature and give all of those blog posts a tag unique to that specific blog and then ignore that tag, but that is a lot of work and is essentially just ignoring domains the hard way. It would be so much easier to just plug "randomblog.com" into your domain ignore list and never have to worry about it again.

There is a show called Revolution that pretty much ripped off the general plot of Dies the Fire, but the characters & other details are completely different. The show is centered around a small group of 5-6 people, whereas the book series deals with entire communities, sometimes on different ends of the globe. There are also lots of massive battle scenes in the books, but the show is just a pretty standard hero/villain action flick. I watched it, and for what it's worth, I enjoyed it, but the books are better than the TV show by several orders of magnitude.

Gold is sounding less crazy every day.

Gold has been used for centuries as a currency because those with wealth and power like to decorate themselves in shiny things. It will never become worthless, and I suspect even in a post-collapse society, gold bars and coins will be valuable in trade, if there is any sort of society left at all.

I'm using it on my ipad right now, looks great!

He won't be able to reply in this thread since I muted him. Funny how the first person I mute is the one who suggested the feature in the first place ;)

I can certainly see that side of it, but kleinbl00 and I have a long history of not seeing eye-to-eye, first on reddit and now here, and a lot of it stems from the fact that he doesn't think he should give an anonymous user on the internet the common decency of not talking down to them like they're a fucking retard. He wrote a whole post about it on reddit about how everyone else is just words on the screen to him and he has better shit to do than care about random internet people etc. Every time I try to debate something with him he starts insulting my intelligence or arguing semantics.

Edit: Found it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/kleinbl00/comments/e59s8/on_aggressi...

Although I would be very disappointed if there isn't a public api for hubski at some point in the future, you don't need a public api to keep track of the top, say, 20 users on the site. I find that interesting, and since I follow most of those users anyway, when that list was removed from the community tab, I simply made a little text file in notepad that I manually update once a week or so. Perhaps it won't be a third party website, perhaps it will be a greasemonkey extension similar to RES. People love analyzing data, and just because you try to hide it from them doesn't mean they aren't going to find it anyway.

I'm surprised you're making the censorship argument, actually. You want to remove something from everyone because... why, exactly? Discourage people from treating the followers list like karma? How is that relevant at all? If you think someone is doing that, ignore them. mk originally removed tags because he didn't want them to turn into subreddits. He brought them back because... they won't. I wish mk would bring back the list of popular users, too, if only so I wouldn't have to waste a few moments of my time doing it manually. Hubski is fundamentally different from reddit. Followers won't turn into karma, you can't "cheat" followers, there is no hivemind here to cater to, you either submit things people like and gain followers, or you don't.

I think we should be adding features, not taking them away. If someone doesn't like a feature, they can ignore it. Plan and simple.

I guess I just don't see any reason to hide information like that. I'm a big fan of stats and data, and as hubski gets popular I'm willing to bet sites like karmawhores.net and stattit.com will pop up. I'd put good money that the first 3rd party website to be created will include a list of users with the most followers.

Default subreddits.

That only serves to illustrate one of the fundamental differences between reddit and hubski - hubski was created with an emphasis on users and comments, reddit was created with an emphasis on submissions and topics. I don't think success will be the same curse for hubski as it was for reddit.

reddit's UI in 2006 wasn't much better (interestingly enough, note the lack of a comments page). As responsive as mk and the gang are to the needs and growth of this website, I would be very surprised if the UI didn't get a major overhaul within the next couple of years, or at the very least a series of substantial changes that will redesign the website gradually over time.

Excellent! I can't say I'm a fan of the pop-ups, I'd love the option to automatically open a new tab instead.

The fact that you put it in those terms illustrates how pointless this discussion is.

Why do you even bother replying to my comments if you're going to insult me every damn time? Wait, I don't give a shit. Thanks for reminding me why I ignored you in the first place. You can call it "corrosive data" all you want, taking something that was once available to the public and hiding it, removing it, that is censorship.

Don't bother replying, I muted you.

Wouldn't we just assume that any kind of missile launched at us would be nuclear, or do we have the ability to detect things like that while the missile is still in the air?

I know one of my biggest pet peeves is when I click a link that normally produces a pop-up, but out of habit I right click > open new tab, and I get a bunch of unformatted text that's really ugly:

Out of curiosity, what's your reddit username, if you don't mind me asking?