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The point is that one operating system has all the wiring exposed for all applications, and the others do not. And in some cases, they deliberately went the other way: https://www.…

How does the answer to that question relate to the article?

Can you explain why a low-hanging optimization that would reduce costs by 90% without reducing perceived value hasn't been implemented?

That would be even better. It would take longer than an evening, though.

That’s one of the great things about the approach demonstrated in the post. The developers of Handbrake don’t need to invest any time or energy in a minimalist interface. They can …

Selecting any text in the body of the article adds that text to your clipboard. Weird.

Technology may be more predictive of conflict abroad than at home. If we faced a land invasion, for example, we would not be able to bomb our way out of it.

While the article frames this phenomenon as self-evidently negative, I suspect the lack of war-related stress is also a driver of island tameness ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is…

Checkboxes Are Never Round (2015): http://danieldelaney.net/checkboxes/

Probably because one man's important details is another's gibberish.

You should copy and paste this "Why?" explanation onto the front page of the site to instantly multiply the number of signups.

The number one cause of death in that same age group was (and remains) accidents, and yet driving has not been curtailed. Young families could not attend school, go to work, or gat…

Your assessment is only correct if the warrants are not obtainable at will. Edward Snowden and the FISA court say hello.

Are you saying that you would like for bad things to happen to firearms owners at any cost, including their firearms being distributed to thieves for nefarious use? In other words,…

The typical rebuttal to this kind of article, seen in some of the comments here, is that the author is necessarily wrong because X happens to Y people per year. Does he want studen…

I'm curious what you would consider coersive if prison doesn't fit your definition.

Do we have any data to suggest that Uber is materially weakened? Do the negative headlines and social media posts necessarily translate into significant changes in consumer behavio…

Is this a troll account?

“Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel - or separate - evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how the investigation …

Has nobody noticed that the URL awkwardly skips to a footnote (/#bx304040B1)?