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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by clnq on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:58AM (#34566593)
Just for context, it is a business theory - https://www.uc.edu/content/dam/uc/aess/docs/LACResources/Mat.... It can be applied to anything within a company's control that has marginal costs and associated marginal revenues.

How to apply it wisely is a different, much wider topic.

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by AmericanChopper on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:03AM (#34566625)
Optimising the marginal cost of producing goods is very different from “keep hiring engineers until $1 of engineering payroll = $1 in return”. Which is specifically the claim made in the comment I replied to.
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by clnq on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:54AM (#34566942)
It is not very different, the same principle can be applied because of the MC-MR association. See here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_product_of_labor#MPL,....
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