+ 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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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?

Great articles have been written on the engineering but I like this one from 1909 showing the perspective of the time:

https://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/dnaque.Html

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.”

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yes, the sycophant noted by Om, but also:

+ 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).

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.

https://github.com/openziti/ziti

>Looking for hints in the console? That's the spirit! But the real challenge is in Fiu's inbox. Good luck, hacker.

(followed by a contact email address)

These are differentiating from most VPN and zero trust:

+ fully self-hostable open source

+ avoid ACL complexity (default closed architecture)

+ sovereign identity-based

OpenZiti is similar in those – how do you compare and contrast the two since very few others share those differentiators (I am an OZ maintainer)?

it is brilliant business strategy from China so i expect it to continue and be copied - good things.

reminds me of Google's investments into K8s.

If we believe the AI-influenced system will be faster, more prolific and more experimental (cheaper experiments), then it seems human attention and the rate at which humans can change (individually, processes, tools, teams, etc) becomes the bottleneck.

In that system, the designer and PM functions become more important in addressing that bottleneck - in producing solutions to best overcome those bottlenecks?