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it's a weird effect:

imagine a beach, with icecream vendors. You'd think it would be optimal for two vendors to each split it half north, half south. However, in wanting to steal some of the other vendors' customers, you end up with two icecream stands in the center.

So too with outages. Safety / loss of blame in numbers.



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