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Totally aside from the point of the article I noticed he used the phrase "I played Cassandra". Can anyone tell me what this means? Searching brings up nothing.

• fatfingerd 3y ago
  Provided a dire warning that became a prophecy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)
  • ceejayoz 3y ago
    And most critically, "a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings".
• adrian_b 3y ago
  The phrase has been presumably used with the meaning of having predicted that something bad will happen in the future, despite everybody else believing otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
  • cm2012 3y ago
    Yes, he told them last year that the harvest would be worse this year due to unsustainable habitat destruction and he was right.
• qntty 3y ago
  It means he partitioned his workload across several of his peers to increase fault tolerance and throughput.