You are dangerously close to pulling a Digg or a Windows 8 and becoming the laughingstock of the tech world. Doesn't that concern you a little bit? Doesn't that make you think at least for a second that maybe the entire redesign needs to be reevaluated? The problems with beta are running out of control - in any other engineering discipline, work would be paused while the whole project is reworked from first principles. You should be doing this.

There are mid 7 digit ones now. I did a double-take when I saw that.

You'd think they'd have learned from how effectively Digg was run into the ground.

I've been wondering about this myself. What if they see the existing userbase as more of a cost than a potential for revenue? We're more likely than average to use adblockers and NoScript when compared to the typical web user - maybe the cost of our bandwidth is outweighing the money they make off ad impressions? Pure speculation, but it would explain some of the behavior we've seen.

Or maybe if they want to sell drinks, they should use the other bar staple, pretzels. I mean, seriously, who's allergic to them?

Feeding the troll, but... ME! ME ME ME ME ME! I would go in a second. Now, I don't have that kind of money to throw around, (stupid grad school), but I'd be there in a heartbeat.

But see, if you actually had experienced both 5F and 20F regularly, you'd know that while both are fucking cold, there's a world of difference between the two. 20 is about where it's cold, but you can bear to be outside with something nice and warm on. 5 is so fucking cold that it feels like the air itself is burning you. The gradations of the Fahrenheit scale do matter in the lower end.

The worst part is that our teachers used to continually drum into us that "these are the best years of your lives, you'll never be as happy as you are now!"

My arse.

I doubt it.

Mount Wilson doesn't just hold the observatory but also transmission towers for all of the major broadcast TV stations in Los Angeles, as well as a majority of the radio stations, along with transmission towers for a large percentage of emergency responder communications and commercial transmission, such as trucking logistics. Mount Wilson is a major asset, and the fire crews have been preparing the area for several days in order to save the area.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, but in the case of Mount Wilson, it's clear they've been concentrating as much effort saving the complex as they have in making sure the fires don't reach the residential communities in La Canada/Flintridge and La Crescenta.