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They might very well have a "verified" column in their DB, and the scans archived or discarded.

Well, GPA shouldn't be tricky at all if you have what it takes to work at Google.

This means, unless you were fed up with the educational system like I was and you purposely did a mediocre performance, you probably aced them.

> They're comparing it because people are starting to use mobile devices as replacements for PCs

Sure, if you spent all your time on Twitter and Facebook and you like 4" keyboards it's great.

The only interesting comparison here would be between tablet and notebook sales, because they are the only 2 markets that somewhat overlap.

How many people do you know who own an iPhone and don't have a computer as well? Saying that people buy new computers less often because they spend some of that money on smartphones could make sense, but saying smartphones are taking over sounds kinda silly.

> The comments to this post were entertaining but not very valuable, especially since almost all of them made complaints about things that weren't actually said. So I've closed comments.

Yeah, might want to close the article for similar reasons.

> There are many very legitimate reasons for a developer, especially one well-versed in many languages, to not want to use PHP.

Like what? I feel there are many reasons why it is a dangerous language for a novice, but if you can be productive with C/Java/Python/Go/YouNameIt, you can probably write nice, maintainable and reliable PHP.

If you're talking about technical difficulties or elegance or whatever, sure. I'll just go with the Facebook argument. I've bootstrapped many projects for companies who aren't made of über hackers, and going PHP guarantees them they can very easily find people who can pick-up the code later on. Also, any * hosting will run your code.

I think nowadays, ideally, I'd just use Go for everything. But in reality, productivity > idealism.

Make sure you attach the project in .jar

Yeah and someone with 1800 friends probably wouldn't have the time at hand anyway

Huh, I'm from the few who never even created a Facebook account.

Whenever something is up, everyone knows I won't get the memo, and they give me a mail/text/call. Usually more than one person.

And you can't compare that to email vs phone. Phone is costly, time consuming, single threaded. Sending a message on Facebook or an email doesn't make any difference.

0.05 * 1.2 ~= 0.0599, maybe they round to 2nd decimal?

Yes it does, it means every "frame" (yay video games terms) of your life, including the complete state of your mind, is a cause of the previous "frame".

Every decision is a product of your experience and state of mind, that are the product of you previous decisions, that are the product of your previous experience.. something, something!

If it's true it isn't that bad (yet). 30mn W is like what, 150'000 TVs? 400 cars? A few buildings worth of AC/heating?

I don't think we'll get to a point where BTC has a significant footprint anytime soon.

Well, take a rice plantation. You need people to cultivate, maintenance, supplies, management. What would those people make on average in the US? 20k?

20k buys you 40t of rice a year on the current marker. How many people do you need on an exploitation to produce 40t/year? 3? 5? 10?

There's your number. With a year's work (doing the exact same thing), you can buy several people's yearly production. The reason for that are currencies.

Without them things would equalize over time (it's happening in EU right now, though only internally). It's a long and bumpy process, but eventually it removes the ability from a country to drain another for next to nothing.

Edit: deleted post said there was evidence a uniform supply pricing was actually bad for poor countries

Causality (in which most people believe, even though they never abstracted it far enough to realize the implications)