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That's not how labor works. Adding more people often times increases the time a task takes.
by viro 5y ago
That's not how labor works. Adding more people often times increases the time a task takes.
- laluser 5y agoWell, this task is highly parallelizable. Is it not? Why would there be a central bottleneck that you could not scale out?
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- vorpalhex 5y agoThere are literally legal firms that employ hundreds of paralegals who do nothing but bulk redaction. They literally have systems to split up huge document bundles and do redaction in parallel.
- jaywalk 5y agoThat adage is meant for tasks that require a large amount of coordination, e.g. large software projects. This is no such task. It's like saying you've got a large wall that needs to be scrubbed clean, and having 10 people do it at once would be slower than having one person do it. That is obviously not going to be the case.
- ethbr0 5y agoYou're roughly talking about the trusts popularized as Amdahl's Law [0]. Which, to summarize the nuances in this context, says "It depends on the nature of the task." [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law