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by bo1024 1369 days ago
I wonder how much electricity Twitter is saving by running the scripts on their users' machines instead...
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I mean, yes. That's what I was getting at. It's cheaper to offload your compute to your users. It's probably much cheaper to offload a massive amount of compute onto billions of users.

They'll keep doing it until they're penalized in some fashion for doing so, if it's cheaper.