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I rather enjoyed the Strobist post where he was better able to explain his thought process. While the image quality he achieved may not be the best, the photos themselves are still impressive to me from a compositional standpoint. David Hobby never ceases to impress me.

MrDerk  ·  4101 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Our Absurd Fear of Fat

I find it absurd that the author closes with the quote you pulled yet has this buried in the middle:

    In other words, there is no reason to believe that the trivial variations in mortality risk observed across an enormous weight range actually have anything to do with weight or that intentional weight gain or loss would affect that risk in a predictable way.

So if there's "no reason to believe" that these weak correlations mean anything, why insist that our current definitions make "absolutely no sense"?

This is just bad journalism all around.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012

    Google Goggles Bring the Internet Everywhere

That's still probably, what, two years away? Google has shown little besides a concept video and a hyped skydiving demo (that was done under very controlled circumstances).

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How should #askhubski be substantively different from Ask Reddit?

I will say, however, that recent changes over there that forbid "Here's a question about the topic I already want to talk about. I'll start" threads have made it somewhat better.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

Good advice all around. I was never really against the removal of tag-based subscriptions; I'm much too new to have a strong opinion one way or another. This change definitely surprised me but I understand the motives and more importantly, the broader Hubski mindset much more now. Thanks.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Very Basic Strategy Game For 2 Players

War + strategy

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

That's my impression as well. It's not really two separate features as much as it is a realignment.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

And what a well-reasoned horn it is.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

    One of the biggest issues on reddit is the inability to escape image macros, memes, and cat images because they have inevitably invaded every subreddit

That more or less just sold me on the whole concept.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

It seems to me now that you would need to have followers to gain followers. Without tag-based subscriptions it becomes harder to gain those initial followers. I suppose the 'unshared' page will help with that to a certain extent...

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Intel Web TV project reportedly held up in content negotiations

No surprise there. Apple's been up against that very same wall for years now.

MrDerk  ·  4102 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

I'm still rather new here, care to elaborate on this point?

    tag-based subscriptions ultimately run counter to the goals of Hubski