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When you try to optimize your programs for performance, do you focus on the code snippet that is responsible for 4% of runtime, or the snippet responsible for 8
by sliverstorm 11y ago
When you try to optimize your programs for performance, do you focus on the code snippet that is responsible for 4% of runtime, or the snippet responsible for 80% of runtime?
Even if water demands in farming are relatively inelastic, cutting statewide water use by 25% is literally impossible without cuts to farming use, and at the end of the day the rainfall doesn't care how much water you think you need to farm.
- mc32 11y agoTrue but the state well knew this was coming _some day_ but did not institute policies allowing farmers to slowly adapt to a new reality. That's bad leadership.
- sliverstorm 11y agoI suspect the reality goes more like, farmers defended their water rights with absolutely rabid ferocity, and it was utter political suicide until now to make any cuts or regulation at all. The agrilobby is incredibly powerful, and lobbies are famously uncompromising even to the point of working against their own best interests. Hell, it might still wind up ruining several political careers.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> True but the state well knew this was coming _some day_ but did not institute policies allowing farmers to slowly adapt to a new reality. Farmers don't need state policy to be able to slowly adapt. Farmers (and other senior rights holders) can choose to invest to prepare themselves, or they can choose to take the risk that someday the water that they have a right to, subject to more senior rights being filled first, simply doesn't exist any more after those more senior rights are filled, and they stop getting it suddenly.
- kansface 11y agoWater rights are a classic tragedy of the commons - its exceedingly rare industries or their regulatory bodies solve these sorts of problems before the resource is destroyed.
- s73v3r 11y agoThe farmers are adults, and are fully capable of adapting to things like this on their own. They knew just as well that this was coming.