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Why faster downloads can waste your time

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You will spend four hours researching how to make your home network load web pages exactly one microsecond faster. The time-saving bias is our brilliant habit of aggressively optimizing tasks that are already incredibly fast, effectively expending massive amounts of precious time just to save a completely imperceptible fraction of a second.

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