>+ C19 - states fast track the legalization of mobile sports betting and online casinos to secure immediate tax revenue
This seems questionable given that covid-19 relief funds from the federal government left states flush with cash, causing them to spend lavishly or even cut taxes. It also makes me suspicious of the other examples. Recessions happen every 5-10 years, and if you count the few years after a recession as part of the recession, it's not hard to pattern match a little too aggressively and think it's tied to economic downturns, when it's really a secular trend.
"Lottos help your school!" they said. Until you're in rural bumfuck nowhere, and your lotto win suddenly drags your community's average income from "dirt poor" to "middle class" by becoming Spiders Georg and you end up costing nearly half a mil in state aid to go up in smoke.
I'm not sure you read that article all the way through... The loss is $450k, but that's only 3% of the year's state aid and an even smaller amount of the district's operating budget. And it only impacted that one year. Inflation and random political feuds usually impact public school budgets to a far greater degree.
The problem in this case is not that the lotto exists, it's that the formula for awarding school funding is (or was?) broken in this state. This is a textbook example of why you almost always use the median instead of mean on things that have a bell curve.
my instinct is open source is part of the answer. the market monetizes with differentiation on the open source base, support, hardware, etc. vibrant enough market = the foss is secure (always a relative term) and continues to evolve, partially paid for by the companies who are monetizing
Absolutely. Easier said than done, but the best security is structural security - as near to invisible for end users as possible. This needs to be the goal, imo, even if not fully achievable.
>Nobody is going to mass-produce a 50-year-old oak. And nobody is going to conjure trust, or quality, or community out of a weekend sprint.
absolutely although i wonder how different 'trust' is in the culture of tomorrow? will it 'matter' as much, be as cherished, as earned over the fullness of time?
i suspect it is a pendulum - and we are back to oak trees at some point - but which way is the pendulum swinging right now?
>The Rowan County Commission meeting included a rare sight, County Chair Greg Edds standing in front of the dais addressing the audience after public comment (something he had never done in his 12 year history according to the article).
articles like this makes me wonder - does the "AI" in "AI data center" amplify concerns beyond 'normal' concerns around commercial and residential real estate development projects?
on one hand, i feel it is partially the media reporting on it more than in the past, but then these articles and anecdata about meetings like this across the country make me feel there may be other differences?
note - in the article, the data center wasn't even on the agenda, nor is a deal in place and yet the unprecedented discussion:
>“I want to be clear about this, so watch my lips. There is no data center deal,” Edds said. “We have made no offers on any data centers. No data centers have made any offers to us. We are not speaking to any data centers.”
+ asking you (prompting the human?) to keep the convo going in very specific ways
+ seemingly more personalization each day
both unfortunately crowd out the long tail which LLMs might otherwise help us explore, but of course the algorithms prefer putting us in positive feedback loops in echo chambers we like (and are conditioned to like)
i wonder if we will see a materially larger number of brackets filled this year than the recent trajectory would indicate (as a very coarse indicator of agent-filled brackets).
n=1 but they help me hit flow states. almost like they provide 'context' before x, helping me to 'prepare' (or be ready?), filter out the noise, focus. similar in group setting - shared context.
i suppose could be 'placebo' but would it matter if the result is what i want, and i can't easily attain it other ways?
i do feel it is somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy - i am essentially practicing something so getting better at it. not enough reason though to 'practice' an alternative, at least for me personally.
The difference is architectural; Tailscale is a mesh VPN, whereas OpenZiti is an identity-first, zero trust overlay network. This makes OpenZiti service-centric and deny-by-default, not network-centric. Instead of “join a private network,” you get access only to explicitly authorised services — with no ambient reachability at all. Its also 100% open source. If you want a simple productised, SaaS experience, NetFoundry, the company behind OpenZiti provides that.
+ in stagflation of 70s/early 80s - states create state-run lotteries to help fix their budgets
+ 2008 great recession - states legalize casinos to recover lost tax revenue and prevent folks from traveling out of state to gamble
+ C19 - states fast track the legalization of mobile sports betting and online casinos to secure immediate tax revenue
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