same shit that's ended up with internet websites loading slower now than they did when broadband first started becoming widespread because sites and servers now use the extra oomph to add entire tomes of scripting and trackers to the traffic.https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/1320498290849280000 …
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it's also why video games now are hundreds of GB. because space is cheap so nobody bothers optimizing or compressing their files anymore.
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and in meatspace, expanding roads and highways to be bigger results in WORSE traffic than if they were kept smaller because more people try to use them.
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call it Sab's law of shitification: improving infrastucture will result in garbage expanding to put you in a spot roughly equivalent to where you were before everything got better, if not worse because "things are better so we don't have to try anymore"
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It's called Jevons' Paradoxhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox …
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