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While they certainly enjoyed the conventions English law afforded them, it was always understood that these rights are natural rights born with their humanity. To lead a revolution…

It is worth reminding that the freedom of speech was understood at the time as one of our unalienable rights as individuals. Notice the phrasing of the First Amendment: Congress sh…

David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" was published anonymously.

It is worth remembering that The Federalist Papers were written under pseudonym Publius. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay believed in the importance of anonymity as …

As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the…

Interesting. Now you got me thinking more about what things might change with self-driving cars. Will cars offer an "orbiting" mode where they keep driving in a circle until you ar…

I knew a guy in college who rented a house that didn't have any outlets with a ground plug. This became such a problem, he made his own ground by using a big metal pipe outside the…

This was a really good teardown. http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr... The author also does consider the cost of the components.

I also suspect CUPS remains pretty active. CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) started a long time ago and is used by pretty much all the Unix platforms. Apple bought the project in…

I know from personal experience that at least LLVM, Clang, Swift, and WebKit/JavaScriptCore have daily activity and also include non-Apple commit reviewers.

I am now a victim of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it". I hated Flash. I either avoided installing it or used a Flash blocker. So I always man…

All the ones I listed are the ones where they are significant contributors. The much larger set of where they are mostly users, like the BSD userland tools, curl, Python, Perl, Tcl…

The only thing that has doubled down here is the marketing of the fact they are contributing to open source. They have both been large users and contributors to open source since t…

I personally think they go overboard in the name of security on iOS, for example the banning of JIT and (formerly) dynamic libraries combined with the App review process is overkil…

You are using a disingenuous interpretation of what he said. His quote is: "tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem" Yes, he uses the word…

Those who enjoyed this may also enjoy Chuck Jones' 9 (or 11) Rules for Writing Road Runner cartoons: http://mentalfloss.com/article/62035/chuck-jones-rules-writi... Excerpt: 1. The…

Since all the posts here seem pretty negative about Slack's response, I'm genuinely curious...how do you think a smaller company should respond when a huge company decides to enter…

Maybe Apple is using something like the Big Mac inflation index to determine their costs/pricing. From January 2013 to July 2016, the price of the Big Mac went from to $4.37 to $5.…

It is estimated Steam made $1.5 billion in revenues in 2014, and $3.5 billion in 2015. If you assume Valve gets 30% of that number, and remember Valve is a privately held company o…

Wait. Aren't the numbers for SSDs, particularly the bus speeds for the SATA connection measured in Giga bits (not bytes)? Looking at these numbers you linked to (which seem to be i…

Microsoft Flight Simulator

I see where the confusion comes from. The example in the middle is in Swift, regardless of which language you've selected. But the API list at the bottom does reflect your current …

Did they just kill the Macbook Air? They kept emphasizing how the 13" Macbook Pro is thinner, smaller, and lighter than the Air. And at the end, they talk up the 12" Macbook.