What happened to most of those French towns, incidentally, was that they shrank down to bishops' seats, then re-expanded when conditions got better. But the British church was wiped out, and only re-established in 597.
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The Habsburg jaw was also a network effect of sorts.
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Does this explain why people still live in cold places at all? There is no rational reason to do so, all else being equal EG Detroit
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Being from Detroit I’ll say that the cold here really isn’t that bad. But the reason people don’t move is partly due to the network effects stated above. A better question is why people stay in a place as cold as Alberta Canada.
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Cities tend to persist in a given location due to path dependence. Path dependence in France was stronger. There were no doubt many factors involved (with these authors citing religion as a key factor). Technology standards have similar properties. http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/files/Bus_Complexity_Conf_2011.pdf …pic.twitter.com/uraj1I9CwN
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A pre-meme share went around saying the size of rocket boosters on the space shuttle were dictated by the circumference of a certain tunnel, which was dictated by the width of a two lane road, which was dictated by the wheelwell of Roman chariots, which had to fit two horses ass.
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Interestingly from this - network effects don’t last on their own *even* in the real-world where the cost of moving out is much higher (france post the 1700s). I suspect network effects in software are more fragile than we think. Long lasting companies need multiple moats.
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Literal local maxima
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Littoral local maxima
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