I will as soon as I get accepted somewhere!

hubski tagging: actually an HIV test

What were the results of the test? I MUST KNOW

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.

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

seconded

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.

Chemical engineering, with a likely minor in computer science.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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