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> I agree that there can be plenty of bike shedding about them, which is why we have an approach that is based on human psychology and can be backed up in that

• hmeh 3y ago
  It was a design decision, and like most design decisions, it was based on first principles and a-priori knowledge. If we had to base all of our design decisions on data and benchmarks, we wouldn’t be able to design anything. I can assure you, that if a better format with better properties came around, we would likely switch to it (assuming we accounted for switching cost and the variation we would be introducing).