If this is a problem that solves itself, it would have solved itself already.

But if you are suggesting that this NGO is carrying water for some unspecified shadowy group that is pulling the strings, you'll need to provide some backing for that. Who has a nefarious motivation to oppose junk food?

Trial lawyers? Misguided do-gooders? Big Celery?

A map with a scale of 100:1 is perfectly useful for navigation. It's just no good for specifying the terrain you want to build with any precision.

The key skill - which is rare - is knowing exactly how much analysis to do.

Formal methods are appealing because they suggest that full analysis is possible. But formally proved programs can still have bugs!

From my (limited) experience, construction costs can tend to rise with the local real estate market. Those construction workers also have a mortgage or rent that they need to pay every month, and buy goods and services from other people with mortgages or rent to pay.

Creating a product and touting how secure it is while some jackass manager continually cuts the budget for security fixes? It’s self-defeating to throw up your hands and say “oh, we had to compromise.”

The reality is that decision-making is about power. If you are continually losing all the tradeoffs, that says all you need to know.

Sometimes power is in the hands of people who use it in ways that will tank the company, all while everyone else “compromises” so we all ride the express train to a failure.

Webscraping is among the more benign things that gambling-on-anything can drive. And even that has a negative impact, as seen here.

I have no idea why those sites are legal.

Reality as experienced in the moment is often binary (I am walking vs sitting) but is often murkily probabilistic (am I am tired because I am jet-lagged, or because I flew to give a high stakes presentation?).

History is also a mix, but facts become murkier the older they are.

So sure, LD95 sounds pretty much like we would have solved it. But if enough people wanted them dead, it’s not impossible that a lethal dose could coincide with some other cause of death. That could be my defense if I were on trial for it.

"solves" is a silly thing to ask for in matters of probability. I think this test result adds data which shifts probabilities, and that's the best we'll get.

Or are they asking about you improving what you can do for them, your team and your company? Your job description is a baseline but if you’ve nailed that, there’s usually more you can do that’s outside of that.

Or you can be content with doing your job well, and make up some bs so your manager can write it on a form. Both are valid.

The economics of the industry are built around the preferences of consumers. The lower end doesn’t look like this, which isn’t encouraging, but maybe there’s room for it.