There are competitions in the AI accelerator field. Google's TPU in addition to Intel Arc and AMD GPUs. The latter two have incomplete pytorch and JAX support.
The service department will adapt by always talking nice, always promising to service the products but never send or perform anything that costs money.
When you finally reach the person in charge:
- "sorry sir, but your request has been filtered by our revenue, cost and risk model, the model is automatic and I am unable to override it, would you please try making the request in another way"
- "my request is totally legit, why does the model think it's risky?"
- "sorry sir, the exact mechanism is confidential. I would recommend you proposing a solution that doesn't have substantial cost for us, or we can work together on this case for a win-win solution".
They don't even have to use cops. They are able to let you lose your cash.
They can prevent you from selling the apartments by refusing to issue titles to buyers.
They can stop you from connecting to city-owned utilities.
They can write you a big ticket for zoning violation and put a lien on your land title if you don't pay the fine.
There is zero evidence that build densely decreases property value. Structure is by itself a depreciating asset. Land value will increase when the neighborhood densifies.
Do we want a mass construction workers layoff in addition to tech layoff?
Tech recession should be countered by encouraging developments in all economic sectors, especially pro-development policies that doesn't cost taxpayer money.
"I don't know what it does. I don't know how it would be controlled. I don't know how to keep kids away from it," he (Stayton Mayor Henry Porter) said. "I guess it's the fear of things we don't understand."
Effective leaderships carefully try out something new to get a better understanding.
Banning something because the official doesn't understand it would kill many innovations, because knowledge of any officials is infinitely small to all human knowledge.
In communication, there is a fundamental rule -- always consider the audience and the scenario, which overrides any specific communication advice.
You don't talk weapon humor in front of a cop, however funny it is.
The article is not for interviews.
No, it requires a cost/benefit mindset, like everything else.
There's nothing special about old buildings requiring compromise. Asbestos is just particularly costly. It sucks, and often it's more benefit in the long run to just rip that band-aid off now rather than live with suboptimal compromises for decades to come.
Yeah, that's it. Luckily it's not actually too hard to remove the ceiling tiles - they're not standard size grid but are drop-in, so nothing has to be cut to remove them and we can have new ceiling tiles made with a non-asbestos fibreboard with an insulation panel glued to the back of it. We'll probably end up removing about a fifth of the tiles in strategic locations for access and ceiling mounted things, because the disposal cost is so high to do all of them. Ideally we could get it all gone but as you said, it's just finding the cost/benefit balance.
