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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.

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 egg…

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

> 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 dri…

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 Alib…

Two of the downed drones were on pretty reasonable path to fling back into Ukraine. https://x.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1965668064865013884

> 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 Swis…

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) …

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 mor…

> 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 immed…

> 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/

> 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 a…

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

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 restri…

> 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 restr…

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 …

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…

> 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 …

> 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 pro…

> "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-calori…

> A work-friendly cafe Funnily enough, what you're describing is actually called anti-cafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-caf%C3%A9

> 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, meanin…