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m_for_monkey on July 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

I fear, the surplus bandwidth will be simply wasted, just like the enormous computing power of modern desktop CPUs.

Xcelerate on July 26, 2012 | [–]

But if you have fiber connecting all of these modern desktop CPUs, people could sell excess computing time to applications that need it.

mw63214 on July 26, 2012 | [–]

I think you just clearly stated a problem and a solution in the same comment.

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