This is all about access. All those people sending him one-sentence emails aren't people who would've sent letters prior to the Internet age. But now that everyone has an email address or is on Facebook and Twitter, the unwashed masses have easy access to spew and it's unsettling to the likes of Chomsky.

I think what we're seeing is much more related to an increase in access than a dumbing down. The worsening signal-to-noise ratio just makes it look like it's a dumbing down.

You must be new to the internet. Seriously though, there's not a great track record for online communities successfully implementing a payed model.

The easiest thing to do, without creating a full-blown app, would be to make a mobile friendly/responsive design. So like, mobile.hubski.com or something. This would at least work around the fact that there's no API.

I would point out though, that a mobile version of the site, whether an app or not, will most likely open this up to a different demographic (teens) which, based on other conversation I've read here, may not be desired.

Yes, and the "ironic" DAE posts are annoying.

As a Christian, this kind of thing is so frustrating. Obviously in order to be a believer, you're going to have to hold views that may not always be popular or make sense to others. But that's YOUR burden, not everyone else's. Why Ham feels the need to take his stand here can be somewhat confusing to non-Christians and it can really only be understood when you take his particular brand of hyper-literalism into account.

His theology stands firmly on what he would call a "literalist" interpretation of the scriptures. For him the Bible is full of certainties regarding things like heaven and hell and the wrath of God (and God's goodness as well, to be fair). There is no real wiggle room. And if you were able to poke a hole in any one of those interpretations then the door would be open to poking holes in all the others. That's what he's working so feverishly to avoid. Creationism is more about preserving an entire theology and hermeneutic than it is about maintaining a theologically consistent creation account or myth.

Hopefully this helps provide a little context into why someone would stand so firmly by something many people consider so inconsequential.

So that's how you spell sellout. I kid. But I've always thought the problem isn't so much the genetic engineering of crops, but how companies like Monsanto (our favorite GMO demon) end up with an extreme amount of control over the food supply. You don't have to look hard to find story after story of Monsanto driving out any farmers who don't buy their seed. Over 80% of the corn grown in the US is Monsanto seed and guess what, you can't save part of your harvest for seed for the following season, you have to go back and buy new seed every season. That level of control and lack of options is what concerns me.

> Hubski doesn't feel like it would really survive a large amount of growth to be honest.

What if the magic user number was found and users wishing to sign up would be required to join a waiting list? Then there could be some metric for determining the activity or impact levels of users and the least active would get bumped every week or so, making room for new users.

I have anxiety disorder and pot does the same to me. I know how to handle it now but I really don't find much pleasure in it so I'll do it maybe a couple times a year if it's being passed around. I do drink but I have to be careful not to fall into self medicating.

So it's going on sale? Sweet!

I declare that I won't buy any more Kindle ebooks until I read all the ones I currently have.

The Atlantic had a good response to Obama's "This is not who we are." statement basically calling attention to the fact that this is who we are.

The source of the methane is believed to be extensive coal-mining activity in the San Juan Basin

sigh

This whole comment thread is making a strong argument for collapsible comments.

I get what he's saying, and it's not that these drugs are safe.

The effects of drugs on human behavior and physiology are determined by a complex interaction between the individual drug user and her or his environment.

I've seen first hand people struggling and succumbing to drug addiction and it's not simple at all. But I agree that you can't just call it all bad or all good.

As much as I'd like to see some sort of "dark net" come to fruition, this guy is nutty and I would not be surprised at all if this is just fluff. Look for a book to be released soon.

This seems to be a clear sign that control of the police department by the city has been completely lost. Or am I missing something? Is there some other way to view this?

It's like everyone could be their own censor.

This would greatly increase the chances of Hubski becoming an echo chamber, or at least a series of them. I've found this to be the case on Facebook as well, where people simply mute or unfriend people with differing views. I'd like to think that the average Hubskier is aware enough to keep echo chambers from forming though. It's a complicated issue for sure.

Macaroni and cheese with sliced up hotdogs in it.

You won't break anything with beginner programming. In fact, you usually won't actually break anything with any programming.

If you're trying to learn beginner programming I would not recommend starting with embedded devices. Even though the Raspberry Pi is much more than just an embedded device, it still presents some of the same challenges. If you have access to a PC then start there. Personally, I recommend Python but that's just my preference.

- Hit my goal weight (I know it's something everyone says, but I'm well on my way and it's definitely doable.)

- Stop being such a hermit and get out more and do new things and meet new people.

As someone on the outside, it seems like there's some sort of arms race with journalists. In this case, if she hadn't doxed him, some other journalist would have and then they'd have (supposedly) gotten more views. At least this is what the mentality looks like to me, an outsider.

Anyway, it's hard to tell what Nakamoto's motives really are, but if he's just concerned about his privacy (as he seems to be trying to communicate) there are so many better ways to have gone about that.

Between our impotence regarding Russia's aggression and our intelligence agencies spying not only on our own citizens but on our government, it's hard to argue that we're not in a decline.

I guess because I feel like this "debate" is creating a false dichotomy in several ways. I look up to Nye (anyone in my age range who watched the Science Guy probably does) and "believe in" evolution (whatever that means). I'm disappointed that Nye's willingness to have this debate lends a certain legitimacy to Ham. And I'm disappointed that Ham is the face of Christianity to many people.

Anyway, sorry for over-explaining.

I can't wait. This story has an odd, satisfying quality to it.

Well that's just like, your opinion man.

Have you thought about load balancing across one or more nodes? You're going to have to at some point.

If you're at the point where you're using Python to interface your X-Box and phone, you're past the beginner stage and all bets are off.

True as that may (or may not) be, there's definitely something pretty creepy about these guys apparently being in very long-term relationships, just to spy for the state. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty creepy.

The privatization of—really, the addition of a profit motive to—our legal systems seems obviously immoral to me and just icky.