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Re:Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned ... by notmyname9173 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:03PM (#24213720)
Parkinson's Law of Data: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage"

Most frequent use: Justifying quotas on NAS/SAN devices. People retain more stuff when they think a shared drive has 500GB free than they do when they see 2TB free.

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Re:Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned ... by mmsimanga on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:49PM (#24214473)
Interesting that means people don't read the unit of measurement, just the number 500>2.
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Re:Ask HN: What's some “one sentence” wisdom you've learned ... by dodoc on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:20PM (#24213976)
I like to refer to Parkinson’s law as Boyle’s law for our behavior, too
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