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- We create open-source software and attempt to get government agencies to adopt/use it. It's crazy how alergic these agencies are to open-source. Some will even create their own, with legacy style implementations (csv uploads, broken parsers), complete with bugs/flaws that are predicatble rather than use someone elses code.
When responding to RFPs, the open-source stuff has an a higher level of scrutinty than the closed systems. Like, if it's open then you have to show it's good but if it's closed the vendor just says "yep, we are perfect" and the agency could move on. It feels like the agency, and the employees don't want any responsibility. But I've never seen anyone lose their government job from some incompetence.
- Typically, and USA specific, the rules are to grind it up, mix with equal parts existing dirt/compost and then it's OK. So that dilutes it by half; then this compost is spread around and, like you said, can be used for other crops. Also, as the material sits in the compost pile, which should be agitated, the pesticides will leach out/break down.
I just got a message from WA-LCB today with updated pesticide information, working with WSU, so here's some details -- https://agr.wa.gov/departments/cannabis/pesticide-use
And here's the Action Limits defined in WA law: https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=314-55-108
- Another thing that happens to outdoor grown cannabis is pesticide contamination. Even if your farm is a good distance from some commercial agriculture, if they spray it can, and does, contaminate your crop -- which for regulated cannabis requires destruction. Literally burning (or composting) thousands of dollars of product.
And if the pesticides test are hot on the cross-contaminated cannabis; how much is on those apples three fields over?
- Another thing that kinds of sucks about this whole "license rug-pull" kind of business is that other teams (like ours) who are publishing open-source software/tools are now suspects too.
Folk ask themselves, why contribute to this thing (MIT/GPL licenses) if there some for-profit entity involved?
Folk can't take us at face-value (I'd argue demonstrated value) and level (unfounded) accusations at us; because some other player did things "dirty".
Well, other folk wanted to pay for support/customisation and in USA you make a for-profit entity to do that. So the corporate part of the open-source project is, nearly, a requirement.
- If you're looking for something similar still you may want to checkout https://aframe.io/ -- it's JS library(s) and you load them, then use custom tags in HTML to create VR worlds. it's rad.
- Collision Calculators:
- https://alex7kom.github.io/nano-nanoid-cc/ - https://devina.io/collision-calculator
- I love ULID too; but it's really just UUIDv7 (or v8) with a mustache (it's all just 128bit IDs). And in the PG world, where there isn't native support for ULID one can use UUIDv7/8 and bridge that gap. We use ULID extensively in exposed IDs, it's very URL friendly, copy/paste friendly, etc -- but it's a UUID datatype in the DB. (ie: ULID => UUID => DB)
- I thought the Apple platform had the best consumer experience and that's why folk love it -- it "just works" -- cause they keep the riff-raff out of their gated community.
Perhaps they let this one slip through because their team was too busy dragging out the review process for our cannabis compliance application, they can only afford so many reviewers after all. We wouldn't want children accidentally getting their hands on regulatory compliance data for deadly deadly cannabis. (which could happen with our application, after they had signed up and verified their agency cannabis license (which only takes many months/years and $$$$$s to get))
- Really frustrating as folks can advertise that crap but, regulated cannabis is blocked. Heck, we can't even mention our product/protocols on these $BigCo sites or they'll kick us off forever! Trying to publish in the AppStore along side all that scam-ware -- nope, sorry can't have that deadly cannabis around here.
- We make software for the regulated cannabis space; we work with government agencies. Despite years of folks indside and outside the industry telling these government regulators to NOT use expensive single-use RFID tags -- they've been plowing forwared with it since 2014. The lobbiest and industry had their ear and the indivudual voices of reason couldn't effect change. How can government make good choices for the citizen when their is money in their ear? How can the citizens become a louder voice than the money-in-the-ear?
In one case; we spent like a year with an agency working on design goals for a track-and-trace system. At the end, they had only one conclusive finding -- use algorithimic IDs for a distrubted/federated type system; they even stated in the findings to use 128bit IDs (eg: ULID/UUID). Then when they implemented their system; that wasn't indidcated as a requirement and the other soft-findings from their year long study were completely ignored.
- Snoop tweeted that he was giving up smoke which was a stunt to advertise a fireplace.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2023/11...
Why not shake-up CEOs of AI if the "CEO of cannabis" is doing wild thing?
- 100% of of these folks doing card-type payments are playing cat and mouse (I know because I'm very involved in this industry). Some don't tell their up-stream processors what they are doing. Others are constantly shifting their processing through various gateways. None of it currently runs on the credit-rails. But all the debit-rail processing is happening in a dark-grey area. One of these debit-rail providers has like four banking parterships per state they "work" in -- so when they strike out on one, they can move to another. You can observe that in the retail store when they say "oh, EBT isn't working today".
And more importantly, in 2014 when the regulated cannabis industry started -- electronic only would have blocked it -- or created an additional huge hurdle. It's taken eight years to get to this crap-tastick hack of workarounds and outright lies.
- Card Present fees are generally lower (1.5%) than Card-Not-Present fees (3%+)
Here's some core-fee details: https://gravitypayments.com/support-library/card-brand-fees/
And Gravity's general fee range here: https://www.cardpaymentoptions.com/credit-card-processors/gr...
- In USA (for example) if we were cashless then then millions of tax dollars collected by state governments from cannabis sales would not have happened.
This is because 100% of the electronic payment players currently block it; and they block it because the federal government blocks it.
The only path to legalized cannabis there would have been at the federal level; it would have blocked 20+ states with their experiments.
- The issue is that legit, licensed businesses -- calling each other to conduct lawful business (not spam, calling to discuss pricing on existing deals) and T-Mobile blocking the calls. So, for example, a Verizon client is calling a State enforcement officer who's device is T-Mobile -- now the licensee call cannot go through to communicate with their enforcement officer -- which can lead to bad things -- such as LEO at your door with dogs and guns.
- Not just T-Mobile; Twilio is also (selectively) hostile to cannabis. T-Mobile blocks (or tags as spam) 100s of legitimate, licensed businesses. From the FCC: "Universal service is the principle that all Americans should have access to communications services" -- and Twilio, T-Mobile (and other providers) make selective choices which are against that policy.
- Good news is that cannabis started of heavily regulated and as the market & unstanding matures the regulations are being reduced (eg: CO/WA). New markets are heavily regulated (eg: NY), mostly because the regulators are still figuring things out and near-zero bureaucrats will play fast&loose -- more enforcement means they doing their job. Other markets that are easing in adult-use-rec alongside their existing medical -- and giving proper attention to the medical side -- have less of these issues (eg: ME). It's not like there was ever going to be zero issues -- but these things take time to settle out and laws move very, very slowly.
- This is a big part; some of these new/young companies are now traded on TSX! Many many others (100s I'm aware of) have taken outside money. They thought they were going to be huge but didn't calculate their SAM properly (at all?). Some of them are stuck "unable" to sell at a competitive price because of pressure from up-stream investors to show profit. Meanwhile, a number of smaller self-funded companies are still just chugging along - no investors; no huge growth; just a moderate margin w/no debit. What the VCs call (pejoratively) a "life-style business.
- Well, from experience, all of the platforms are hit/miss on policing this type of content (drug use). For cannabis specifically, FB/IG(Meta) are inconsistent at best -- some stores have posts directly listing product and prices while others get blocked for a rather plain meme. Currently anything goes on Twitter but there is less response than before. Reddit allows all kinds of content; but the sub-reddits (even the cannabis oriented ones) have differing policy on posting things are pretty cleary CSA violations.
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