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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by heartbreak on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:46PM (#11537622)
It's real, and it's not in the Opinion section. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/18/be... (Paywall)
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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by saganus on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:04PM (#11537749)
I didn't believed you until I read the article.

"$137 million divided by 4.7 million is ... $29.14.

More than 4.7 million contributions means, at most, 4,749,999 -- or else the campaign would round up to 4.8 million. Even with that higher number of donations, the average is $28.95. Which is more than $27."

This is laughable...but I haven't yet decided if it's in a good or a bad way. I mean, really? they are complaining about a 1-2 dollar difference from what BS says?

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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by chm on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:04PM (#11537745)
It wasn't behind a paywall for me at least. The article has a sensationalist headline but the content is what you would expect for a discussion about averages and pseudo-random quasi-uniform distributions : the average moves slightly. Big deal!
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