> 5-6 containers simultaneously with other applications?
64gb if you don't want to end up with swap. 32gb is the bare minimum.
That's not right in my experience. I have the MBP Pro M1 with 32 GB, and have a few VMs with docker containers inside (plus all my IDEs, terminals, google chrome tabs, music, etc.) and 32GB is plenty. Not sure the impact of having running as well Photoshop while all the VMs are up, though.
As with all things that scalpers re-sell which are not necessary for survival and health I find myself unable to come to a reasonable answer for why the first sale shouldn't be at market price.
Complete speculation, but I would guess that in many cases the company/organisation running the conference would want lots of people to come (e.g. for marketing or hiring purposes), even if they could increase total ticket revenue by raising prices.
Selling expensive tickets is also bad PR, which might be worth more to the organisers than the extra ticket revenue.
Say you have 500 tickets. You give everyone who wants to go 48 hours to submit how much they're willing to pay for a ticket. At the end of the time period the 500 people whose bids were the highest all get the tickets.
You could publish the current price of the tickets during the bidding time frame and allow people to modify their bids at any point.
The final price would be whatever the 500th lowest bid was. In the event of a tie, choose randomly among the people tied for 500th.
I imagine this would be greeted with complaints about how it gives the rich an advantage, but I can't think of a fairer way to distribute tickets that also avoids the scalper problem.
Cultural events should not be the exclusive domain of the wealthy. The free market is not God. Rubbing more capitalism into a problem makes that problem worse, not better.
> In practice, most conferences don't want to allow transferable tickets because it ends up with a scalper situation.
In practice, whether or not scalpers exist is of very little relevance to most conferences, because...
> The scalper will annoy everyone and take any money that would otherwise go to conference.
...that money wasn't going to go to the conference anyway, because the conference is charging less than the market price (i.e. what the scalper is able to get away with charging). That money would go to the conference if the conference did charge the market price... and then the scalpers wouldn't have any margins left and therefore would have no reason to be scalpers anyway.
As for "annoy everyone", in practice that's also of very little relevance once the conference actually has your money. The only people it'd annoy are the ones trying to buy tickets, and it'd only be particularly annoying if scalpers were the only option - i.e. if the conference was already sold out, and therefore had already taken as much money as it possibly could.
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The more reasonable answer for why conferences don't want transferable tickets is because they often tie tickets to attendees' identities (e.g. photo ID) and that connection becomes impractical unless the conference is actively involved in the transfer process. The reasons for that are partially addressed through NFTs (namely: wanting to ensure that it's an authentic ticket that actually belongs to you), but also partially not addressed (namely: security, especially if you have particularly-high-profile speakers and/or attendees).
Many artists specifically don't charge "market value" (ie, the most they possibly can) for tickets, because they want their fans to be able to attend the event; not just the wealthy ones. Scalpers buying out the tickets and reselling them higher defeats the point of this.
I helped build this system for a major ticketing company. We used a database, that was it - because its pretty simple overall when you're taking a cut. Confirm original barcode, mark transaction, issue a new barcode.
At performance time only the new barcodes work, and if you didn't get it through the ticketing company then you were just out of luck.
I could use an assist/pointers on running this better. Would love to chat since you seem to have some knowledge here. If you're game, feel free to contact me at my HN username at Google's email service. Cheers!
You can use a MoR payment provider such as paddle or spring which handle tax compliance for you globally. They will pay tax and take liability on behalf of you.
I would expect that MoR's have their own set of issues. As they become the seller. So they are liable for the product quality, safety etc.
So I don't think signing up and working with them will be very easy. Especially if your product is not as standardized as an ebook or something.
So if you use those, I would love to hear about your experiences. What you sell, how the signup was and how the relationship with them is going.
Last time I looked at the Paddle signup flow, I already had two issues I could not resolve:
- What product category my product falls under. None of their categories seemed to fit.
- How to sign up before the site is live. Paddle wants to look at the site. So do you have to build a dummy that works up until the point where the user buys something and then it says "Sorry, we are still looking for a payment solution"?
Paddle only replied with nonsensical semi-automated messages to my questions. And when I answered and asked for a real answer by a human, I never got a reply.
I have recently used Paddle for a small saas. I am selling a Pro plan that give access to a restricted feature of the web app. As the Pro plan was introduced as a later stage, Paddle verification team accepted to review a "staging" version of the web app before I post it to production. I definitely talk to real humans, but I took time to express my situation. Paddle integration not too painful (good but not perfect documentation) considered it was my first saas. I might write about it if some of you are interested.
A secret url who wasn't to secret, it was simply a subdomain : preview.mydomain.com. Even if it was a subdomain, Paddle team was accommodating and approved the main domain. Just talk to them.
FastSpring is another alternative for SaaS & international taxes. I'm sure there's more besides Paddle & FastSpring. The idea is to look for a company that will act as the "merchant of record", not just a payment processor:
You end up paying more to them than Stripe would charge, but it might be worth it if you just don't want to deal with that administrative headache.
(I'm not running a SaaS, but shareware / downloadable software companies have been dealing with international taxes for 15 years or more now, since the digital EU tax laws came in. The idea of global consumption taxes wasn't really a thing until then, so you only had to follow your own local tax rules in the early-mid 2000s.)
Thank you. That's really helpful. It's nice to see governments working together to create whole new industries dedicated to solving administrative nightmares :)
I use Paddle on https://webtoapp.design and went through their and my TOS with a german lawyer. Basically they're only responsible for payments & customer support (however most customers come to me directly or get directed to me, as Paddle can only really resolve billing issues).
Paddle checked my site & product 3 times to make sure it complies with their requirements (an important aspect in my case was that my app creation process is automatic and not done by hand). I always got in touch with a human quickly, both during the account setup and later when I needed help (through chat or sellers@paddle.com). In fact I'd say it's probably the best support experience I've ever had.
Regarding your sign-up questions:
- Back when I signed up there were no such options but now I'm in "Standard Digital Goods" which seems to be the catch-all for everything that doesnt fit into one of the more specific categories.
- I had integrated Stripe and Paypal (never again) already, so I didn't have that problem. You could use a "Contact Us" placeholder to manually process payments I guess. If you immediately apply to Paddle then, you shouldn't have to keep that up for long anyways.
It is. Laws are adapted based on widespread technological capabilities and progress.
As an example, if it is easy to create real voice or signature using AI models - they should no longer be considered effective evidence for contractual reason instead of enforcing that it is illegal to forge it. That is not going to work.
Your example is not good. Speeding is not a technical innovation that require any fundamental change. It is enforced in automated fashion and it is beneficial for the safety of public at large if reasonably implemented.
All laws are made in interest of someone.
Does the copyright apply to AI models since they are out of scope and weren't widespread when it came into force?
Does the proposed benefit in the original law apply in practice?
Are they more beneficial than the progress allowed by AI models who use them as training data?
Is the copyright law practically enforceable on output generated by AI models?
Copyright law is what it is today. Like it or not doesn't really matter. And yes, copyright law is practically enforceable, regardless of how copyright is broken. That's what the Berne Convention is all about.
Oh. That’s batshit crazy (the college application thing). Why should non-academic achievements make any difference whatsoever when applying to college? Is that a thing anywhere except the US?
As for show and prestige, that’s usually what the parents want, so that’s squarely in the "something is wrong" category.
I thought it was a case of everyone apeing the Ivy Leagues when they kept on changing the rules to keep their hardworking minority numbers down to make their New England old money look superior. So the excuse was they are going for "well rounded with extracurriculars" students, back when there were too many Jews for their liking. Then repeat the same thing with Asians once exams and extracurriculars are optimized for.
Blind unthinking mimicry drives the educational system. I was in early elementary school when analogies were removed from the SATs. They went from "very important" to disappearing off the face of the earth, only occassionally showing up in two questions at most per standardized test.
colleges have decided they want balanced students who have some of everything (except free time, because lmao they dont need that). so its karate or swimming oe soccer or football or baseball for athleticism, usually 2 during childhood. its piano or violin. its starting extra language study early. boy scouts or national honor society for leadership. speech and debate, model un or working for a campaign to show political consciousness. 100+ nonprofit work (actually documented) or starting your own of you want to stand out.
all these can be fun but as a kid you are not doing them to have fun, there is constant pressure to win awards and be the best at these. and the list is picked more from appearance on a college application than enjoyment for a child.
this is most american kids now with any ambition of getting into a prestigious school. it will not get you scholarships though.
it is also not mentioning that "academic excellence" in high school has moved from straight As to 6-8 AP exams in a single year, i shit you not.
> it is also not mentioning that "academic excellence" in high school has moved from straight As to 6-8 AP exams in a single year, i shit you not.
That is because even when I attended high school 15 to 20 years ago, letter grades/points were extremely inflated. AP exam scores (and SAT/ACT) are the only objective academic measures.
As an example, I am pretty sure a C was the lowest grade possible to get (translated to a 2 on the point scale). Then a B was a 3, and A was 4. For a class, there was a final numerical score (arbitrarily determined), and an A was something like 93 to 100, B was 85 to 92, and so on.
But that was for the “regular classes”. If you were in an honors class, you got +5 added to your final number grade for the course. And AP class added +10. So if you ended up with 93, you actually got 103 in the class. And so you had an A, but the grade point average was calculated from 103/100*4 = 4.12. And then this grade point average was used to rank you relative to others in the grade for purposes of determining valedictorian.
In any case, as you can see, the whole thing was a joke and anyone who attended class got a C, and anyone who put in half an ounce of effort got an A, and the higher achievers had GPAs higher than 4 on a 4 point scale.
Obviously, colleges are not dumb, so they know the whole grade inflation ruse, and it also continues in many classes. After all, at many colleges, their customers are paying them $30k to $70k per year for that grade.
> it is also not mentioning that "academic excellence" in high school has moved from straight As to 6-8 AP exams in a single year, i shit you not.
Same in India.
There is 0.1 to 0.6% chance of getting into any prestigious university depending on the demographic factors of student. This is after extensive filtering in high school.
99% of students spend 6-8 hours in coaching daily for years to get rejected since we follow stack ranking with limited seats.
What's sobering is government tried to increase elite universities but people don't perceive them as such even if they have better infrastructure, faculty, and education without the same low acceptance rate.
Stablecoin issuers are one of the largest treasury holder today. They are growing and capitalising fast. It's a matter of few years before they pose systematic risk outside crypto.
64gb if you don't want to end up with swap. 32gb is the bare minimum.
Ram on m1 is split between gpu and cpu. 16gb is more like 10gb available to the actual application.
Don't believe in all the hype and misinformation surrounding ram efficiency on m1.
Swap is fast enough for most casual users to not notice the impact but as a developer or creator, you will definitely notice it.