True, but I was already burning 100% of CPU and GPU on WorldCommunityGrid for no return at all, so it's not costing me anything to switch. I also recently learned about gridcoin, so I'm playing around with getting paid to do science, too.

Nicehash has a profitability calculator on their web site, and if you want to, you can configure settings to mine only when profitable (after factoring in electricity). Of course, that would be based on whatever altcoin nicehash is mining, not on steem's price.