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Re: enviromentally friendly google
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2008, 08:07:06 pm »
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oh i 4got 2 post this site earlier as well:
http://www.freerice.com/
its like a vocabulary game and for each question u get right 20 grains of rice gets donated through united nations
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Re: enviromentally friendly google
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2008, 08:49:35 pm »
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what? why cant they dont just donate the rice? i mean..... lol?

and i just realised that the benefit of blackle is fairly small, it's not even megawatts yet...

as economics ppl puts it, the marginal cost is higher than marginal gain... :( good incentive but it doesnt work...
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Re: enviromentally friendly google
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2008, 08:59:11 pm »
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Quote from: Obsolete Chaos on January 10, 2008, 08:49:35 pm
as economics ppl puts it, the marginal cost is higher than marginal gain... :( good incentive but it doesnt work...

Sorry, but you don't understand us at all. What is the marginal cost?

And if the marginal cost is higher than the marginal gain, how is there a good incentive? Rational people would not do it because their is a disincentive to, if this were the case.

Quote from: Obsolete Chaos on January 10, 2008, 08:49:35 pm
what? why cant they dont just donate the rice? i mean..... lol?

It is based on advertisments
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Re: enviromentally friendly google
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2008, 09:14:01 pm »
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Quote from: beezy4eva on January 10, 2008, 08:07:06 pm
oh i 4got 2 post this site earlier as well:
http://www.freerice.com/
its like a vocabulary game and for each question u get right 20 grains of rice gets donated through united nations

All I did was open up dictionary.com and played that, I ended up giving 200 grains of rice. I felt happier that day
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