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by krn 4y ago
> What makes you think there would be any remaining tickets? Again, there could be a rule, that after the first 30-50% tickets are sold, all the remaining tickets are sold at the base price (let's say, $50). It's just a trick t
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by krn 4y ago
> Your answer is to become the reseller and charge more putting the reseller out of business? No, that's what the promoter should do. > Now you have increased profits short term and increased risks. And only rich fans can attend.
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by krn 4y ago
> [...] imagining how to maximize the profits for a single event No, I am not interested in maximizing profits. I am only interested in eliminating resellers. > Circumstances such as the fact events are generally a part of tours, that
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by krn 4y ago
I was wondering, if ticket resale is a viable business model only because tickets are not priced properly in the first place. What if tickets were sold using a reverse auction system[1] instead? For instance, tickets could start at $1000 an
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by krn 4y ago
> I find it kind of astonishing people are citing Ukrainian numbers as anything short of blatant propaganda, just like Russian ones. US reports are worthless, because it has no soldiers on the ground. The extremely high Russian casualty
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by krn 4y ago
If Russia wasn't a permanent member of the UN Security Council, the UN Security Council could have made decisions that prevented the invasion of Ukraine without any agreement from Russia.
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by krn 4y ago
The numbers are exactly the same – only the number of wounded Russian soldiers (175,740) is missing in your source. (Maybe because Ukraine's Ministry of Defence is only counting complete "liquidations".)
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by krn 4y ago
Well, Taiwan also had a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, had been sending its representatives for more than 20 years, and other members had no objections. But one day that seat was taken away from them and given to China.
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by krn 4y ago
> Russia has plenty of military power, it is just that Russia may not be able to handle its own military power. For instance, like loosing more than 70% of all its tanks since the beginning of invasion[1]? > The idea that Ukraine can
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by krn 4y ago
> But if you think "the job" of the entrepreneur is simply to have a good exit, well the world would be gravely impoverished if entrepreneurs in general shared your view. The job of an entrepreneur is to calculate everything an
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by krn 4y ago
> Personally I don't think it IS just a matter of time before nukes are used. Putin is not a nice guy, but he isn't a comic book villain. Whenever somebody said that "Putin is not that crazy to do X" – he eventually d
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by krn 4y ago
> You’ve essentially swapped just over 1 year of Adobe revenue for a quick exit instead of building the system that delivers $15B+ yearly by dethroning them. The question for Figma was, if they would ever reach $20B+ market cap after an
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by krn 4y ago
> Russia didn’t gain military power to invade Ukraine from UN, it is in UN because it already possessed the military power. Russia has no real military power, as the last 7 months have shown us. It was not even a founding member of the U
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by krn 4y ago
It's just a question of time when tactical nuclear weapons will be used in Ukraine, if Ukraine continues with the successful offensive[1]. Also, Russia is not even a world superpower: neither economically, nor militarily. It could easi
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Expelling Russia from the UN Security Council – A How-To Guide(cepa.org)
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by krn 4y ago
> Could have asked if they think selling to Adobe has limited the potential of what Figma could accomplish. Could have asked about how users who supported them as a solution against Adobe might feel betrayed. Well, it's a business,
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"I analyzed every classical game of Magnus Carlsen since January 2020"(twitter.com)
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by krn 4y ago
Clickhouse is a data warehouse, not a timeseries database. Timeseries databases are designed with different bottlenecks in the mind: https://questdb.io/blog/2020/11/26/why-timeseries-data/
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by krn 4y ago
If integration with PostgreSQL is not a requirement, I would suggest looking at QuestDB[1] for the best performing open-source timeseries database currently on the market. [1] https://questdb.io/blog/2021/07/0
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by krn 4y ago
> Facebook has admitted to suppressing speech in Thailand and the US. > Twitter and reddit openly do it during election season to sway votes and opinions globally. Could you provide any reputable sources that claim that such things we
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by krn 4y ago
> No, we're just non-US people not seeing the difference between US agencies forcing FB/Google etc to hand over our data, or China forcing TikTok. As a non-US person, I think you didn't get the point: the US agencies can o
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The lawless world of crypto scams(ft.com)
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Amazon Became the Largest Buyer of Renewable Energy in the World(time.com)
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The term ‘quiet quitting’ is worse than nonsense(ft.com)
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Wall Street stormed the music business(ft.com)
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by krn 4y ago
He also did a cameo in Faraway, So Close! (1993)[1] by Wim Wenders: > Mikhail Gorbachev only appears because his secretary was familiar with the movies of Wim Wenders and was a great admirer. She talked Gorbachev into giving up a couple
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by krn 4y ago
> Many generalizations really don't work for such a vast and diverse region. I think the right solution here is to divide the region into Central Europe, The Balkan Region, and The Western CIS and Caucasus: https://www.re
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by krn 4y ago
> Are you migrating away from Heroku? If so, which cloud provider are you using (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc)? What's your stack and what service are you migrating to (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, etc)? I see only two real Heroku compe
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Hedge-Fund Pioneer Julian Robertson Jr. Dies at 90(wsj.com)
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by krn 4y ago
OVH has datacenters in four continents: https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/data-centers

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