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What Decided Our Cascade's Economics Wasn't the Escalation Rate

Putting Flash-Lite in front of 3.6 Flash and escalating only the hard items looks like an easy win. Estimating it from the escalation rate alone will mislead you. Here is the break-even solved with the escalated subset's output length in the equation.