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by riffraff 5mo ago
you can buy 1 ticket, but then you can't change the name. It does not prevent scalpers altogether, but it makes it harder and less profitable. Generally, people do not want to go to an event alone, you'd go with a friend, partner,
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Actual physical newspaper still exists tho.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Tesla has a P/E of 383, I think? Of course, it shares the same reality distortion field. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/
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by riffraff 5mo ago
It would appear that the relative tax inefficiency of dividends over buy backs (and lack of wealth taxes) has fundamentally messed up the business world. Alas, I don't see that likely to change.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
I lived through the '90s when all presales were physical and scalping absolutely happened. It's actually a lot easier, the scalper would just hand a wad of cash to the teller and walk away with a stack of tickets to resell.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Yes, but you can't know if the transfer happens at a profit. You can always ask the person to pay you extra on top of a "monitored" transfer. UEFA limits this for football games by allowing you to purchase only two tickets an
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Isn't scalpers a solved problem with nominal tickets? I'm pretty sure some bands were doing this a decade ago. Even UEFA, among the most corrupt organizations in the world, does this for football tickets, you can buy 2 tickets and
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by riffraff 5mo ago
The "test anything protocol" was a text based system for writing tests, I think perl might still use it I remember using it to implement the test suite for a Shakespeare language interpreter. Fun times. https://en.wikip
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by riffraff 5mo ago
> Worst case, they could have rented any extra capacity out, like Elon is doing! Worst case there wouldn't be anyone interested in renting it either, they would have tens of billions of useless data centers fastly losing value.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
I don't see why this wouldn't fit on status.github.com. Social media posts were literally called "status updates" at some point.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Is it even worth to escort tankers? The money you spend on countering cheap drones would be massive, and this administration would likely ask the escorted ships to pay for protection. At that point, they might as well just pay Iran.
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Les Horribles Cernettes(en.wikipedia.org)
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by riffraff 5mo ago
There are a few companies, I remember Invisible Solar which produces modules which look like traditional clay tiles. The market pitch is different tho, they are aimed at providing less effective solar for places where you have a hard need t
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by riffraff 5mo ago
I wish this had a "I don't mind either of these".
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by riffraff 5mo ago
But they're also prioritizing news sources with such snippets, which forces publishers to have them or lose traffic to competitors, because Facebook is taking advantage of a dominant position in the market. That's what they'r
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by riffraff 5mo ago
RAM prices surging in the AI hype era does not mean they'll stay there for decades (see xAI already letting one data center go), and it would take a long time for Apple to become competitive. Should they also start CPU fabs? Batteries?
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by riffraff 5mo ago
this was 5 years ago. There were many threads on it on HN that may be of interest to you https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Subvert. The music platform owned by its community(subvert.fm)
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Ah that makes sense, thanks.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Typeset in the future was awesome, too bad it stopped updating
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by riffraff 5mo ago
buth the very first two bits of copy are about "intelligence" and "gemini". If they wanted to stay away from AI as branding they didn't do a great job.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
This is what the article is about. > Downloads of Grok fell to about 8.3 million in April, from a high of more than 20 million in January, according to analysis firm AppMagic. They have a ton of spare capacity, hence they are letting ant
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by riffraff 5mo ago
I don't get it, why do you deduce this is "the refinement of millennia"? How can you tell that a script is "refined", especially from a single example?
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by riffraff 5mo ago
My dad pitched this movie to me when I was a kid, as he was a Carpenter fan. Beyond the somewhat "obvious" message (for a grown up) it's just an eminently entertaining movie.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
"keep in mind, so does a handgun"[0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1217/
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ASTro: AST-Based Reusable Optimization Framework(github.com)
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by riffraff 5mo ago
Smalltalk didn't have math operator precedence, and I thought it was very annoying but I've come to believe it was a good idea.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
but you can use grapheneos with some payment providers/banking apps AFAIK, while you can't use the EU wallet/ageid app.
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by riffraff 5mo ago
I enjoyed reading this! But on one thing > You and I will probably die before we’re allowed to take a bottle of water through airport security again We could again bring water through airport security for some time in e.g. Rome's F
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by riffraff 5mo ago
I mean, they could sue for non competitive behavior, but good luck beating Google's lawyers

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