Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year

Post by dimfeld » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Pada wrote: post #2

Or 1000 kilograms for the rest of the world.

Or simply, one tonne. In fact I'd guess that the engineers, thinking in SI units, told the PR people that 'we recovered a tonne', rounding to that figure for them because it sounds neat. Then the PR people converted to pounds for older readers, which comes out as the very precise sounding 2,204. So the figure is probably rounded but then presented as being much more precise than it is.

Post by imaginenore » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC

CydeWeys wrote: post #29

chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or simply, one tonne. In fact I'd guess that the engineers, thinking in SI units, told the PR people that 'we recovered a tonne', rounding to that figure for them because it sounds neat. Then the PR people converted to pounds for older readers, which comes out as the very precise sounding 2,204. So the figure is probably rounded but then presented as being much more precise than it is.

I don't understand this whole "tonne" thing. Why overload a word that already has two other conflicting meanings (the imperial short ton and the imperial long ton) when you already have a word that is more canonical and completely unambiguous in "Megagram"? Plus it just sounds cool.

Post by CydeWeys » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 6:46 PM UTC

imaginenore wrote: post #53

CydeWeys wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand this whole "tonne" thing. Why overload a word that already has two other conflicting meanings (the imperial short ton and the imperial long ton) when you already have a word that is more canonical and completely unambiguous in "Megagram"? Plus it just sounds cool.

Unambiguous? As in megabyte?

Post by CapitalistCartr » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 7:04 PM UTC

kyllo wrote: post #52

yuubi wrote: post #40

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For those who haven't had a physics class, that's garbage because silver is somewhat more conductive than copper, which is slightly more conductive than gold. The main benefit of gold is that it's more stable than copper, so it's a good material for connector contact surfaces, but the bulk of the contact should be something else like copper or steel, depending on the relative importance of electrical or mechanical pr…

By more stable you mean it doesn't oxidize right?

Post by CapitalistCartr » Sat, Apr 16, 2016, 7:14 PM UTC

CydeWeys wrote: post #29

chrisseaton wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or simply, one tonne. In fact I'd guess that the engineers, thinking in SI units, told the PR people that 'we recovered a tonne', rounding to that figure for them because it sounds neat. Then the PR people converted to pounds for older readers, which comes out as the very precise sounding 2,204. So the figure is probably rounded but then presented as being much more precise than it is.

I don't understand this whole "tonne" thing. Why overload a word that already has two other conflicting meanings (the imperial short ton and the imperial long ton) when you already have a word that is more canonical and completely unambiguous in "Megagram"? Plus it just sounds cool.