Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

SaintUlvemann t1_j8yz6pi wrote

All the efforts of all the cryptocurrencies in the world haven't yet reached the level of day-to-day practical utility as a McDonald's giftcard; because I can spend the giftcard to buy the hamburger, but there is no store anywhere around me that accepts Bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency.

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crimeo t1_j8yr5mf wrote

I don't disagree both countries sending and receiving are to blame, but the original comment was about how plastic laws in the US are "idiotic" because of a perception of low US waste being dumped.

Yet the US waste that ends up being dumped is on the very high end, because even if a minority gets dumped, it produces so much overall than a minority still dwarfs other countries. So those laws are not, in fact, "idiotic".

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greenking2000 t1_j8yr0yq wrote

You can donate your idle CPU time to do research if you want

You install a program and it when your CPU/GPU usage is low it’ll do calculations for that organisation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects

Though he is likely on about Cloud Computing and got the name wrong

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

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nerdydancing OP t1_j8yqm7l wrote

VIPs might be better for the club but they charge high room fees to the dancers and/or keep a higher percentage of the total than single dances. When I used to set my own prices I made my VIPs expensive to make it worthwhile. I wrote a detailed comment about pricing on this post if you can find it.

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