Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)

Re:Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell... by miki123211 on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:06PM (#43327692)

> I've never met an attorney who thought they were an engineer simply because they were excellent lawyer

Not sure about attorneys, but there are certainly legislators / regulators who think that, or who at least think that every problem they throw at engineers, like implementing end-to-end encryption that their government can backdoor but foreign governments can't, is instantly and easily solvable.

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Re:Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell... by tsimionescu on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @02:05AM (#43329621)

That's basically the opposite phenomenon: you know so little about how an industry operates that everything they do seems like magic to you, so you end up making absurd demands of them.

The phenomenon discussed here has engineers believe they can practice law and medicine themselves. So they're not asking lawyers to get them out of a murder caught on national television, or doctors to cure their cancer in three days. They think they can do these themselves.

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Re:Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell... by DiggyJohnson on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @11:06AM (#43333213)

Completely agree w this clarification

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