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It seems pretty clear in the OP that headline is misleading—they do work, just not as well as he would like. I think that a 50% cut in light emission is pretty good—and you can sta…

I have a guess as to why this fix was delayed—on the release candidate, you weren't able to resize windows in Stickies. I filed a bug for it. This felt like a last-minute addition—…

The other banks involved all agree that the remaining balances are with Evolve, and that there isn't money that's been moved somewhere else. If there was, Evolve might be willing t…

The accounts were genuinely FDIC insured. Evolve is a real bank. But a few months before the bankruptcy, Evolve pushed Synapse to move the money into non-FDIC insured brokerage acc…

Feedbin for sync and for email ingest. A key fact about this is that unlike Feedly and Newsblur, it keeps old content indefinitely. That means that if I don't check feeds for a whi…

iFixit is charging $39 for an iPhone mini battery, or $25 for an iPhone SE battery. Paying $25-30 for half an hour of labor—on a $400-1200 device—every two years sounds… totally fi…

I suspect that of all the things burning the world, it's mostly oil and cars. iPhones are unusually useful, but they're not unusually resource intensive.

You might look at Sparkleshare; it's not P2P, but it is open source, self-hosted and encrypted.

This doesn't prove that economics is wrong. It just proves that something like one of every two economists is wrong. This is not a hard problem to figure out the answer to by look…

There are also plenty of people who are interested in people of two or more genders that you shouldn't erase. This is the kind of thing where, if you really can't figure out how to…

The problem with modes is fundamentally that people make mode-errors; they're not sure what mode they're in. If you've got users who aren't looking at the device, then yes, they'l…

I think the point is being missed here, to some degree. This is not necessarily the best way to live. But it's worth considering: what would you do if you weren't tied to a corpora…

If you took statistics in college, you might recall that correlation does not imply causation. There's a hidden third set of factors here; your intelligence, wealth, etc. That peop…

"As the deflationary feedback amplifies the desire to hoard, the exchanges will become illiquid." The rest of it makes perfect sense, but why would we think this, rather than that …

I never really understood why people feel the need to keep the UI mostly the same. It may not be as good at the first release, but why do people object to them breaking everything …

I'm not convinced Lion (or Mountain Lion) is getting a 'huge' pushback from users. I heard isolated groanings on launch from people who didn't like adapting to natural scrolling or…

Why is it that a currency logo now needs a color scheme? Every other major currency in the world is doing fine without a special color. I don't see why Bitcoin is any different.

Dropbox's goal seems to be killing the local filesystem on iOS. Email, being a big part of using an iPhone and the associated file-transfering, is their one big problem; you can't …

"As I mentioned, on Monday I will begin... [a] direct attack on my procrastination problem." Does anyone else see the problem here?

I totally agree with your thoughts on 'finishing' a newspaper. That said, the large number of sections, and having no way to see whether I've seen the new articles in them, leaves …

Fixed headers are terrible. I once asked a whole room of designers if any of them could think of a single design they liked that used a fixed header, and none could.

It looks beautiful, but, as a daily reader of the Times, there's one thing that's holding me back from signing up: it's designed (like the iPhone app) to show you other content fro…

As a student, I'm just going to say that it's about time somebody did this. Even going to an extremely high-quality school, Salman Khan is just a better at explaining concepts than…

There are certainly issues with this article. As a student, who's been in this setting for the past dozen years, I've got some thoughts on the matter: 1. If you want to measure how…

"It should be a natural goal for a school to raise it's test scores as time goes on." With many of these tests, especially good schools are hitting the ceiling of how well it's pos…