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Rent (and imputed rent) going up does increase GDP without any change in underlying physical activity.

Aren't same instruments being used in Bellevue as well?

"No lowering rent" rules are making downturn worse, but the trigger is something else.

Both 3n and 2n are linear, the broken conjecture is that you can't do better than linear.

IIUC grandparent is in Norway as he quoted the price in NOK.

Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU used for serving unpopular models by 82% (emphasis mine)

> 17.7 per cent of GPUs allocated to serve only 1.35 per cent of requests in Alibaba Cloud’s marketplace, the researchers found

Instead of 1192 GPUs they now use 213 for serving those requests.

> I thought that this kind of experience was reserved for Eastern Europeans

Being casually racist on the other hand is a time-honored pan-European tradition, proudly upheld by Swiss.

Team X is responsible for feature Foo; feature Foo is slow; team X introduces Foo-preload, metrics go up, person responsible gets a bonus.

Multiply that by tens (or even hundreds) of teams and your app startup (either on desktop or mobile) is now a bloated mess. Happened to Office, Facebook iOS and countless others.

One solution is to treat startup cycles as a resource similar to e.g. size or backend servers.

I believe a big crux is in definition of "war ended".

You (and Donald Trump) seem to be using "Ukraine and Russia stop shooting at each other right now", while Ukraine operates more under "Russia stops shooting at us for the foreseeable future, 20 years at least." Russia has previously broken a number of ceasefires and written agreements (including the infamous Budapest memorandum) and so Ukraine is not super trusting to agreements not backed by anything.

> or you can include them in the broad pool, and the people with a full-cinderblock home in a non-flammable state pay $20 more a year so the entire endeavour can work

And you immediately start loosing customers to insurers that either did the former or left LA alltogether. This changes $20 surcharge into $25 surcharge, causing more customers to leave, causing surcharge to increase and so on.

> IRI measures how much a car moves vertically as it travels over a given distance, and is typically given in units like “inches per mile” or “millimeters per meter.

How accurate are phone accelerometers these days? Could Uber/Lyft/etc. start collecting that data from drivers phones.

In a supply-restricted markets taxes and subsidies are ultimately paid by a supplier independent on who actually transfers the money to government.