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Santa Cruz is small. Vancouver is a large with significant land. Very different except they are both on the west coast.

A 4Ghz CPU is faster than a 1Ghz CPU. If you wanted to scale the best you would want faster algorithms and faster hardware. Not just faster hardware.

Not being able to do something because of size for a human behaviour problem is almost always the smooth brain argument.

Your comparison is marginal at best. Effort for using smooth brain to strengthen your argument undermines any fleeting validity of your criticism.