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However, high interest rates make this upfront capital more expensive to access, thus making projects cost more or even become financially unviable.
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Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
The companies also need to make a profit off their enhanced fruits — but the higher prices might make those alternatives commercially unviable.
—Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Ventures employing it generated more revenues than those that didn’t and were also more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a necessity for early-stage firms.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
Firms employing the scientific method—the centuries-old discipline of formulating, testing, and tweaking hypotheses—generated more revenue than companies in a control group did and were more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a routine necessity for early-stage start-ups.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
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Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
The companies also need to make a profit off their enhanced fruits — but the higher prices might make those alternatives commercially unviable.
—Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
Ventures employing it generated more revenues than those that didn’t and were also more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a necessity for early-stage firms.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
Firms employing the scientific method—the centuries-old discipline of formulating, testing, and tweaking hypotheses—generated more revenue than companies in a control group did and were more likely to pivot away from unviable ideas, a routine necessity for early-stage start-ups.
—Harvard Business Review, 1 July 2024
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Very broad LLMs that try to answer all possible end-user queries, utilizing massive datasets can be impossible to tame in all 4 key dimensions.Tor Constantino, MBA, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Because for nearly a decade, it’s been almost impossible to change the belief and vote of a certain kind of voter — the type ensnared by the right-wing propaganda woven into the cult of Trump.Natasha Stoynoff, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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The reality is that paying the full social cost of carbon seems unfeasible, but mounting evidence shows that the costs of inaction are even higher.Nils Rokke, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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However, that bank also rejected Tasi Mane as essentially unfeasible.Charlie Campbell / Dili, Timor-Leste, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
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When her plan for a federal ban on price gouging was rejected by economists as unworkable, her advisers downplayed the idea.Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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Saying something freshly substantive about female desire while honoring the film’s defining spirit of vapid, diaphanous horniness is a tricky, potentially unworkable brief.Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024
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Instead of clinging to an infeasible definition of victory, Washington must grapple with the grim reality of the war and come to terms with a more plausible outcome.Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
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After all, having 200,000 immortal or self-replicating monkeys working consistently until the end of the universe is just as infeasible as having infinite time to begin with.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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The plan’s 10-year phase-in period, which was intended to lower costs and make implementation more feasible, was criticized as impracticable.Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 July 2024
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Contractual force majeure is rarely invoked and enforced to allow the nonperformance of contracts that have become either impossible or impracticable due to some catastrophic event, including natural disasters and wars.Alexander Talel, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023
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In post-Roe America, women detail agony of being forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term More than a dozen medical experts who reviewed the medical records told ProPublica that her death was preventable.Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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In subsequent appointments, the doctors determined the heartbeat was diminishing and that Paseka was carrying a nonviable pregnancy.Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 9 Mar. 2024
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Outsourcing vendor management may also be impractical, as most services are designed and priced for large enterprises.Paul Blough, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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That same year, following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein ordered an impractical (and unsuccessful) effort to quickly build a nuclear weapon.Uri Friedman, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Rahmani said that Trump is unlikely to favor any such reform.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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Time was so short, Miller concluded, that Harris was unlikely to significantly close the yawning divide by taking new policy positions, shifting her campaign rhetoric, or even upping her ground game.Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
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