My guy. I don't know where you live, so I'm going to treat this as a good faith question from someone who lives near an abundant natural water resource.

Much of the country pumps water from a well connected to an aquifer. If you start to pump the aquifer faster than the baseline level of recharge, the level of water begins to drop. If you continue to pump the water out of the aquifer, it doesn't matter what happens to the water after you're done using it. You clean it, discharge it into the local creeks, whatever - it doesn't matter. The reason it doesn't matter is because it takes years of substantial rainfall to replenish these types of water resources. It doesn't just go up, you've used the water, and if you drain it below the level of the well that people have been using nearby, the water is effectively gone.

You're not understanding that drinkable water from underground aquifers is a finite resource over a given amount of time.

They pump aquifers and deplete them faster than they recharge, causing everyone with a well in the area to go dry.

It's not about "destroying water" it's about building your data center in an area that has limited resources and exploiting them for your own personal gain.

Google can't put water back in the aquifer. They pump it dry, and leave everyone who lives there to deal with the problem.

to do the same job for less money.

It's about cutting wages, period.

Verbing weirds language

I recommend reading her substack to understand what's going on in housing

https://substack.com/@m3melody

She does an interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In my opinion, interviews are becoming more and more absurd, and less and less relevant to the work.

Overall hiring is a mix, but layoffs are mainly driving down wages now.

It explains a lot about why our society is the way it is

All it takes in our economy is a little grease and rules don't matter. There's an entire class of people that think that as long as Trump is never punished, they can do anything they want.

After all, a pardon is $2M.

What matters is how/if that differs from the status quo. I know slashdot has a hard time reframing the question to anything but software engineering, but an error is not always a "vulnerability." Humans already make many errors and to not make any errors it takes many humans.

You're the one claiming the only meaningful decisions have to have nearly absolute precision. That's what is truly idiotic. What a weird world you must live in where you can only decide with nearly perfect information. What tripe.

Again, this is just nonsense, morally righteous nonsense. There are all kinds of decisions that happen every day for every person that do not require this level of accuracy. Your moral superiority means nothing.

Obviously it depends.

Of course, how stupid of me. The only problems anyone works on already operate in the same tolerance as the space shuttle. Some errors can be absorbed; others are catastrophic, treating them all the same is moronic.

There are plenty of situations in life where 10% error tolerance is more than acceptable.