Turned down a job for a yc startup doing genetic tests on cows to maximise meat yield
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What is wrong with this ?
Just felt sorry for the cows
In theory if cows produce more meat, less cows will be killed.
(we can talk how immoral is kill a cow for feed ourself, but this is off-topic and everyone has different opinions)
Devils advocate play here - when NYC via Robert Moses built more highways and tunnels to ease congestion, more cars got on the road and soon the problem was recreated
Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British civil servant, first published in 'The Economist' (1955)
Parkinson's Law - Data Corollary: Data expands to fill the space available for storage.
Generalized form of Parkinson's Law: The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource. The reverse is not true.
Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
... from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
I think I find the fattening more disturbing. It was a precursor to me becoming vegetarian though so ymmv