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Pournelle's law
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English
Etymology
After Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), an American writer of science fiction.
Proper noun
en computing The rule of thumb that there should be at least one CPU for each user of a system.
The principle that any bureaucracy eventually comes to serve its own interests rather than those it was created to help with.
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