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My advice is don't mine with a borderline dust machine like the s3. Unless you have 2 s'3s. Then you are not borderline dust.
With my 5ND ramped up, I made ~15k satoshi before the pool hashrate fell. Now I make ~19k from each block, which is almost twice the dust level.
I get your point and all, but I'm gonna run my S3 for heat and for starting at blocks

. Maybe I'll get another miner when there's a new one out that doesn't fall apart after a few days.