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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

War + strategy

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

And what a well-reasoned horn it is.

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.

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...

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

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

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