International students actually pay about 4x what a domestic student pay [1].

[1] https://www.adelaide.edu.au/degree-finder/2020/bengh_behe&es...

Not if you consider the contribution of the taxpayer on behalf of domestic students (and their tax contributions over their future careers).

Is there anyway to confirm they are legit Samsung cells? Batteries seem too ripe for counterfeits.

Two options:

- Sort by orders. If seller has sold the most, probably a reliable seller.

- Buy a handful (or samples) first (you can ask seller that you need samples first), and test their capacity (using e.g., a good charger, I have Zanflare C4). The model I mentioned should have 3Ah (or 3000Ah). If confirmed, those are legit cells.

Plus the first order is the least likely to contain bad cells because you’re doing QA.

Correction: 3Ah or 3000mAh.

Maybe killed by one of these https://imgur.com/a/kJtaftu

Not sure what they're called but I see them dragging huntsman spiders around.

They don't look as bad as the tarantula hawks but they sound like a helicopter.

Maybe the attitude to run the battery low before charging it comes from NiCd batteries which have the so called memory effect [1].

Could education be the answer? I've never bought an iPhone, do they include a few paragraphs about proper battery care?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect

Apple has had a web page about batteries and good maintenance practices [1] for several years now. But most people wouldn't know about it or read it unless they searched for it.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/batteries/

Slightly off topic but, how do they create the lithography masks with such tiny and precise features?

Cut with lasers or electron beams as far as I know, and the masks are bigger by some multiple. Also have really weird patterns, since they have to correct for how the light-waves interact due to the small size.

Presumably they must have come from somewhere, anyone know where?

Not sure who, but the fraudulent comments were all submitted by a bot. Verizon has made similar efforts in the past.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bots-Flood-FCC-Website-Wi...

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Consumers-Demand-FCC-Inve...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6a6qvi/someone_...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-webs...

Interesting.... at the bottom of the page it has © Dave Cahill [1] with a link to another website [2].

The two websites have similar navbar and footer.

[1] http://imgur.com/a/4rUd0 [2] https://www.davecahill.com/

Presumably he's her boyfriend or just a friend and made the site?

Yes that caught my attention too, possible scam?

I think he means the well-ordering principle

and G Suite (formally Google Apps for Business)

I'd add a caveat to point 1, it is only a huge saving if you were going to buy whatever it is anyway.

Has anyone done studies on the effects of cashback on consumer behavior?

I wouldn't be surprised to see that it increases overall spending. For me it's like second nature. I don't even think about the cash back. It's more like, oh I'm eating out, need to use the 3% cash back for dining card.

While straight cash is not something i have heard of locally, i know that frequent flier points got a bad rap because it was found to be market distorting.