"The bank will estimate its costs based on its fixed costs, variable costs, the cost of their employees, the rent and so on and so forth.

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So, and of course, you know, keeping entropy as a fixed variable for a system like that is extremely cumbersome.

所以，对这样的系统要求它们的熵保持恒定,和一个非常笨拙做法。

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And so, there is the distinction between fixed schedules versus ratios, variable schedules and ratio versus interval.

因此，在固定时程与变化时程之间,以及在比率与间隔之间，存在着一些区别。

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Decelerating growth with increasing fixed and variable costs does not bode well for future profitability.

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