Are there any hard stats on how all this drama is impacting Reddit? Is this just a small dent in their daily traffic or are they actually slowly declining?

I think the best quote from Chris (the hermit) was:

"Solitude did increase my perception. But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."

The idea of how our identity and personality really only exist in the collective minds of other people is cool. In isolation, we are freed of the slots that other people try to fit us into and do not need definition, because each and every one of us already "know" who we are.

One of the complaints I read from journalists who tested out the hololens was that only a small rectangular portion of your view screen has objects overlaid on top. There were snippets of this video that showed how large that rectangular screen is. I wonder if microsoft will eventually make it so your entire field of vision has overlaid objects.

Is it a hardware issue? Hard to project on a curved screen or perhaps a rendering resolution issue?

I have the same issue. Clicking on the exp bar takes me to snapzu.com/history instead of snapzu.com/username/history.

Nice job. There is a noticeably increase in performance. The site feels a lot snappier. Just from a technical curiosity stand-point, what were these optimizations?

Cool. Maybe snapzu's devs should implement this natively in the site.

As always, popular science loves their sensationalist article titles. There is a big difference between splicing in a couple of mammoth genes into a modern elephant and "brining back the wooly mammoth".

I would argue that morals are just a reflection of empathy. Something is bad because if it happened to you, you would feel horrible about it. The ability to put yourself in another person's situation and empathize is what determines right or wrong. If you were living in isolation, how would you empathize? Perhaps with other animals?

I think the best quote from Chris (the hermit) was:

"Solitude did increase my perception. But here’s the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."

The idea of how our identity and personality really only exist in the collective minds of other people is cool. In isolation, we are freed of the slots that other people try to fit us into and do not need definition, because each and every one of us already "know" who we are.