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Analyzes how sharp discontinuities in U.S. tax and subsidy policy—like the ACA subsidy cliff—incentivize people to lose money, and draws parallels to similar discontinuities in hardware and software queues.
A blog post analyzes the M/M/c queueing model and shows that increasing the number of servers in a load-balanced system improves latency at constant per-server load, a beneficial and somewhat counterintuitive result for cloud economics.