Comment by eslaught
2 years ago
Isn't this all explained by power law effects? There was an HN thread digging up an old Shirky.com article on this not too long ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31038660
TL;DR: power laws predictably mean the top <whatever> looks really big, but that doesn't mean the long tail doesn't matter either.
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