Originally Posted by subgrade

I think I see where you got it wrong: in your own words, as long as it is impossible to pull the lever all the way to the handle bar, you can develop the same amount of force on the brake lever.
What Kapusta was saying is that the same amount of force applied to the brake lever translates to more force on the disc brake pads vs. rim brake pads, by way of greater mechanical advantage (any given amount of lever throw moves the pads of a disc brake a smaller distance compared to rim brakes).

Originally Posted by Kapusta

So now you are just going to evade the subject?
Nice.