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jiggawattsyesterday at 9:30 PM0 repliesview on HN

Efficiency is the opposite of robustness.

You can’t have slack in a system and be efficient, because it would be more efficient to use up all 100% of the (cheapest) capacity.

There is a fundamental tradeoff between the two that capitalists chasing 1% margins discover only when there is a disaster somewhere.