The world got impatient; one second of slower load time can cost Amazon $1.6 billion across a year

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There are some statistics you run across in the course of consuming information that just straight up blow your mind. Here's one example:

https://twitter.com/BillGates/statuses/477284253403578369

In the United States period he's describing (via the book), the U.S. built basically almost ever…