When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)

Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by zeroimpl on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:24PM (#23945511)

But you don’t sum up all the other things for opportunity cost, you take the single max value. In other words, the opportunity cost doesn’t care about how many other people were waiting, it cares only about how much useful results the best alternative proposal would have gotten with the same amount of hours.

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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by klyrs on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:43PM (#23945603)

That's an inaccurate picture of resource allocation. 100 hours of a globally unique resource could satisfy 100 1-hour demands. You sum those.

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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by zeroimpl on Saturday July 25, 2020 @12:01AM (#23946757)

That would be one proposal - give 1 hour to 100 different groups.

What you don’t do is sum the 10000 different requests, nor the 100 requests that also want to use 100 hours each.

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