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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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he certainly doesn't himself have such a mindset, and I am not convinced that he knows why a tiny leak in a dam is a big deal, nor am I convinced that it is necessarily a big deal. for example with five seconds of searching
https://damsafety.org/dam-owners/earth-dam-failures
one would suspect a concrete dam leaking is pretty bad. but I don't actually know without checking. there's relevant domain knowledge I don't have, and no amount of "engineering mindset" will substitute for me engaging with actual experts with actual knowledge