kilotaras

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by kilotaras 2mo ago
Rent (and imputed rent) going up does increase GDP without any change in underlying physical activity.
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by kilotaras 2mo ago
Aren't same instruments being used in Bellevue as well? "No lowering rent" rules are making downturn worse, but the trigger is something else.
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by kilotaras 3mo ago
Eggs demand is rather inelastic[0]: price has to go up by a lot for demand to go down. Per your link Cal-Maine Food doubled the revenue while selling roughly the same amount of eggs. Expenditure wouldn't double and so you would expect
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by kilotaras 4mo ago
Both 3n and 2n are linear, the broken conjecture is that you can't do better than linear.
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by kilotaras 8mo ago
> But if there are a bunch of children milling about an elementary school in a chaotic situation with lots of double parking, 17 mph is too fast, and the Waymo should have been driving more conservatively. UK driving theory test has a pa
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by kilotaras 11mo ago
IIUC grandparent is in Norway as he quoted the price in NOK.
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by kilotaras 11mo ago
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
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by kilotaras 1y ago
Two of the downed drones were on pretty reasonable path to fling back into Ukraine. https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1965668064865013884
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by kilotaras 1y ago
> 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.
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by kilotaras 1y ago
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)
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by kilotaras 2y ago
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 u
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> 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 di
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> cleaner air I'm not sure that move will help much. EVs PM2.5 footprint, is 0.5x of ICEv [0]. Good but not game-changing. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35760182/
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> 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&
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by kilotaras 2y ago
In a supply-restricted markets taxes and subsidies are ultimately paid by a supplier independent on who actually transfers the money to government.
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by kilotaras 2y ago
There's a reasonably simple change that would allow application of Harberger's taxes. 1. Restrictions have to have a "controlling party": a dedicated party that controls the restrictions and can agree to lift it. Classic
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> Non-housing costs are quite low in Taiwan. Food and childcare, in particular, are so much cheaper than California that it’s hard to believe. Those are downstream of housing restrictions to a large extent. From "Housing theory of e
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by kilotaras 2y ago
i.e. the paper[0] states that first "discharging" produced 7.09kg of H2 out of 8.71 theoretically possible the efficiency is super low, but again, according to the paper, "most of the energy input was due to thermal losses at
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by kilotaras 2y ago
27 tons of iron oxide have a volume of 5m^3 and can be stored in pretty much a hole in the ground. 2.7 tons of hydrogen have a volume of almost exactly 30000 m^3, requiring storing it under high pressure in specialized containers. Hydrogen
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> homes to households hasn’t changed even as prices have gone up Office for National Statistics (ONS) definition of a household: one person living alone, or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address who share
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> I don't buy it: As long as whatever they built brought in more money than the property taxes, there's more money to be had from building than from not building. The lower the property tax - the lower "money brought in&qu
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> "Everything is a tradeoff" But sometimes things we're trading off are less relevant and so the equilibrium changes e.g. losing weigh is hard, because humans evolved in low-calorie environment and being able to stock fat
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How to start an advance market commitment(worksinprogress.news)
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> A work-friendly cafe Funnily enough, what you're describing is actually called anti-cafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-caf%C3%A9
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> no longer balances out if you say use 20kWH from the grid and feed 20kWH to the grid Should it balance though? One would presumably feed into the grid when sun is shining, meaning there's a lot of supply (not just from you), and c
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by kilotaras 2y ago
IIRC Houston does not have zoning in direct sense of the word, but has a set of regulations and restrictions (e.g. on height, setbacks, parking minimums, lot sizes, etc.) that still drastically limits options for buildings.
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by kilotaras 2y ago
Housing theory of everything[0] strikes again. Situation: Housing demand outstrips housing supply. First order effect: housing prices go up Second order effect: your FBI agents are now experiencing financial instability and worries Third or
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by kilotaras 2y ago
> Oh, for the ship-to-your-house version in May, we're dropping the price to $250 https://twitter.com/LanternBioworks/status/17699293904048991...
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Urban area is around half percent of earth area (2 mln km2 vs 510). Improving albedo there may have some local effect, but unlikely to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation.
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> what is the most probable distance between the two points? > even if they answered/guessed 1/3 1/3 is not the most probable distance, it's the expected value. The most probable distance does not exist,

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