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by amanaplanacanal 970 days ago
It was paid for out of your monthly bill.
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Right, but that's also the case for the cost of handling the resulting e-waste.

Maybe they meant "externalize" in the "externalities" sense—environmental damage, etc? If so that makes some sense, but for a full accounting you'd have to compare that to the externalities caused by all the people driving around to take readings (tailpipe emissions, adding to traffic, etc).

Yes, that's the meaning I had intended