leehuffman's comments

My mistake! I remember that now. Thanks for clarifying.

> Is there a law mandating realtime reporting, or something

Not real time in WA, but all records are public and reported fairly consistently. See https://www.topshelfdata.com for an example of that.

> or are there just limited number of POS providers and they all have realtime API(s)?

This is Headset who is probably the largest retail POS provider (amongst other offerings on the producer/processor side and more) for legal marijuana sales. I'm assuming the data presented here is exclusively from their POS platform. I don't know of any public sources for real time sales data.

> I bet the dashboard doesn't have Johnny from my street corner's transaction...

Yes I'd also bet Johnny doesn't report his sales to a central database/platform.

Why is everyone (ok, fine, mostly economics & tech people) convinced this is such a wildly viable slam dunk of an idea?

Have y'all ever opened up a wall before and seen the electrical, plumbing, etc mechanical bits that make up a home? Any idea of what it'd cost to chop up that office space and feed every individual piece the necessary bits?

It's outrageous that we're even talking about this idea still. It'd require wildddddd tax advantages & federal spends in order to execute on it in any sense of the overarching idea.

> Genuine Question, why can't we just charge a federal property tax 3-4x local property taxes for individuals who own >1 property (which would likely be distributed back to the locality, specifics not important)

I am that person.

I own two duplexes in addition to my primary residence, for a total of four residential rental units – all 2/1s made up of ~750 sq ft each. Those additional properties that I own provide housing to 6 humans who can't purchase, or just prefer not to.

What you're proposing would result in one of two moves from my end:

1. I sell both properties and let someone/some entity (who doesn't work and/or manage the properties themselves, have any relationship with the tenants, will push rents to market prices immediately, etc etc) deal with it.

2. I scrape the lots, stand up single family homes, take my gains and walk inside ~18 months. That puts the 6 humans mentioned above out into a (very tight, <= 1% vacancy rate) rental market that'll bump their monthly rent expense by ~25% minimum and, overall, very likely reduce the headcount of humans housed.

Either way, it's a high level hit to individuals, the market, whatever. It doesn't result in any gains or economic corrections to the RE market.

> (which would likely be distributed back to the locality, specifics not important)

That's already happening in my scenario. I own & operate a General Contractor LLC entity that issues invoices to me, the property owner. The local city, county, and state are paid B&O, sales, etc taxes on those GC LLC invoices out of my personal pocket. Separately, my personal rental income is taxed appropriately at the federal level.

> I think this would just price in the externalities of corporate versus natural person living in a property for a locality.

You know what else can be priced in? Or wildly swing a market into affordability, normality, etc? Letting people build things. My lots are massive, but they consist of sheds and lawns instead of multiplying my units and housing more people.

It's impossible in my local market, and that's why it's carrying the <= 1% residential vacancy rate it has for 15+ years, and why rents are increasing at wild rates that no industry/job market inside 80 miles can support. Economics 101 says supply vs demand etc etc. Easy layups for anyone with half a brain. We don't have to modify anything outside of city/county zoning & the ability to infill everywhere.

> I somehow expected more density for a custom arrangement like this. One eviscerated mini per sled, ten sleds per rackmount chassis, six chassis per rack: sixty minis in 42-48U.

If Apple isn't willing to manufacture an off-the-shelf offering, what did you expect? That's... pretty dense...

As far as off-the-shelf desktop things turned in-house rack mount sled chassis builds go, 60 Minis in 48U (with _all_ the supporting bits – multiple network switches etc) is pretty damn good?

> I'm willing to believe that there are cooling and airflow advantages to the sleds

Nah the benefits are all management, maintenance, and isolation. Not to mention the sled chassis providing A/B power feed support, IPMI-esque management from the host chassis for each sled, etc etc. The benefits are massive and have nothing to do with cooling/airflow.

> although those two small fans at the back of the sled don't look too exciting.

I can assure you those 40mm fans _scream_.

> The biggest advantage seems to be ~~cable management~~ and the ease of sliding out a single mini at a time.

Bingo. Single sled failure and the ability to swap to a spare/repair the broken one outside of production by pressing your thumb on a trigger and pulling towards you. Huge win vs the off-the-shelf 'rack your factory Mini in this metal cage on rack rails' scenario.

Not to mention you now have the ability to assign jobs/builds intelligently at a sled/host chassis level. Isolation & proper distribution of jobs at that granularity (and cabinet, power phase feed consumption, A/B feeds, cabinet row(s), etc) is very valuable. This shit is really, really dope.

I’ve had great luck with NOS 18v batteries from eBay. Had to pick up a pair for an 18v trim nailer that doesn’t support their 20v adapter. My neighbor did the same for his 18v collection. All going strong.

First result for "when is portugal the man playing in my town?" via Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+is+portugal+the+man+pla...

https://www.songkick.com/artists/400418-portugal-the-man

The "Track Artist" button at the top of the page will let you subscribe to all future dates inside a radius of your town.

Nightmare avoided. :)

> But this is actually a terrible idea.

A lot of people say that about a lot of art. 'Terrible ideas' can be very, very dope though. IMO mapping their primary domain to a fuckin' Google Sheet is banger hah.

> Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one.

Those are there, though? Also Google returns the 29 tour tracking/ticketing platforms in their trailing results behind the primary domain. I think the fans will be ok...

> Agents and venues looking for promo pictures.

> Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc.

Bruh it's Portugal. The Man. There is one agent (theirs) and venues/festival "planners" (???) aren't "looking" for promo photos – they're delivered by their agent and/or management with restrictions, guidelines, and approval for promotional use only. They can't just pull random media off the internet for promo.

Nobody is trying to determine their "style". That's been clearly defined for a minute (decade+) now. If anything these people are selling PTM, not the other way around.

> My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manager and here we are...

I can guarantee you that's incorrect. You don't think they plot & plan & intelligently deploy their entire, well... everything? For months on months before we see it? Nobody fumbled about, tweaked the layout & styling, and toggled the Share function on the Google Sheet organically haha.

Fair enough. Message received.

Fine. I used the wrong term. You can't argue anything else I wrote outside of the word "monopoly" though, sooooo...

> Ticketmaster has a number of competitors (StubHub, Eventbrite, AXS, Seatgeek).

Those are reseller platforms (StubHub, Seatgeek) and independent entities (Eventbrite & AXS) that aren't associated with the venues/rooms they're playing in.

So your examples either:

1) Resell tickets from Ticketmaster + the list you mentioned + all other providers, or

2) They don't have the ability to flex on people because they don't own & operate the rooms across the entire planet, and in turn can't hit them with exclusivity clauses in their contracts the second they step foot into one of XXXXX rooms they'd like to play.

> Nevertheless, artists do seem to always gravitate to companies like Ticketmaster, even when neither they nor their venue have any affiliation.

Are you sure those non-affiliated venues don't have 10+ year exclusive ticketing contract that came with a fat lump sum when the ink dried in order to modernize & sustain their business?

I'd also question which rooms are slanging TM tickets without being owned by the overarching entity? I don't think I've ever seen that and I'd appreciate you presenting some examples of this.

> What we should ask is what problems a naive artist would face selling their tickets like any other commodity:

So anyone outside the TM system is naive? Wow... 0k... proceed...

> - They overprice it: No one shows up, people are angry at the artist, the artist is in debt to the venue for overbooking.

Please explain to me how the artist is in debt to the venue? There isn't a promoter in between the two? The artist is signing loan agreements and going into debt to the venue? Tell me you have zero clue what you're talking about without telling me you don't know a single thing about this industry...

> - They underprice it: The tickets are hoovered up by scalpers who capture most of the ticket's true value, fans are disappointed they can't attend because finding a ticket is much harder.

Again, no idea what you're talking about.

1) TM is GASSED UP when scalpers hoover up. They have multiple reselling platforms for exactly this scenario, including one that's TM branded. They _love_ this.

2) In reality, the promoter/venue is totally fine with this. They build offers against the proposed ticket price & sellable capacity, and a sell out is a sell out. Sure, hindsight is 20/20 and they'll reference historicals and adjust accordingly when the agent hits them up for the next play, but nobody is mad at a sell out.

> and package the event wholesale for the venue and artist. Both parties are can be guaranteed of some portion of the event before tickets even go on sale and the risk for them both is diminished.

They own & operate the venues. The artists are paid cash up front to sign the exclusive tour contract. They're not working for _anyone_ other than Ticketmaster... you're tripping my guy...

> Obviously I'm not trying to say Ticketmaster is all sunshine and lollipops

Ayyyyy no worries anyone with any exposure to this industry and half of a brain has already determined you have no idea what you're talking about, you're wrong & confused & way out of pocket, and we already know TM isn't sunshine & lollipops... back into your text editor you go (please)...

Erm except AEG promoted that whole tour (and the too few beyond it – RIP Prince) and is a replica of, and/or, the only direct competitor of Live Nation.

That's a weird example to pick out, as if Prince was 'fighting the system', and yet I'm sure you know he exclusively signed & got paid up-front from the 2nd positioned monopoly in the game.

Cool story that you got to sit side stage and wrote code behind his fan club ticketing (which I'm sure you and AMEX shared for <= 7% total tickets sold, and AEG _definitely_ didn't finance as part of the exclusivity deal on the whole run) but come on... I know you know all you've done is present an alternative story that's supposed to garner upvotes but anyone who knows, knows you were the next one in line to fuck this entire industry and rake it off top.

Edit: Google says fans also know. https://prince.org/msg/7/247733

You legitimately can’t comprehend how a court ruling in the US would affect anything or anyone outside the US? For real?

Who cares? This person is telling a story about their lack of access to cool new tech, and what projects like this one have provided them.

Split hairs all you want but giving less privileged people access to funsies that eventually turn to deeper technical interest and (I assume) a higher earning career is the overarching message and I’m all the way about that. The weird dissection of an uplifting & cool comment like OPs is classic HN & definitely unnecessary.

Edit: And their reply resonates with me. Not fronting like I couldn’t have those things, but I dug deep into retro gaming (via emulation) in my early teens and my career can be traced back to that original interest & deep diving.

Who spends $10k - $20k annually on hobbies?!

I think the HN demographic of heavy six figure annual earnings has, uhm, lost sight of being an outlier and what’s ‘normal’ for the _vast_ majority of the population.

You don’t sell options, you obtain financing to exercise options, with said financing backed by the converter stock produced from the options you’re exercising. Terms are fucking _brutal_, but when you’ve spent a decade at a company with no exit in sight, your hand can be forced. Hence why there’s a market for this.

I think you’re missing the piece where “company” means any registered legal entity. This can be a single human to <= 8 employees to <= 50 employees to >= 1000.

You’re getting lost in the current context of what you assume to be SVB’s majority customer; the banger ‘unicorns’ we’ve all read about over the last decade, who would/should have this ‘treasury department’ you’re referencing.

Zoom tf out, remove SVB, and tell the guy who fixed your fucked plumbing last go around that his lack of a treasury department and/or insight into what his primary bank is doing with their deposits is a major problem and they deserve to eventually get fucked because of it. I’ll wait…

Just copped The Slim Shady LP for you. That one is a classic.

His later records are trash (ok he had one more decent showing on The Marshall Mathers) and Cypress Hill is laughable I won't do it. Holy fuck of course you picked those two artists lol.

For real though your shit is purchased straight up & on it's way and now that you've mentioned BTC I don't even want to be reimbursed I just want to send you the lossless rips when the physical lands – ETA 1/4/2023.

Send me something so I can give you these files, please. That Slim Shady LP is amazing and I want to come through on my offer.

> Though I won't do that process on day-to-day basis for each track I listen, that's kinda inconvenient, you know.

Right you'd have to go to the website where you buy things and do what I did. I can understand that that's a bummer for you. You know what else is a bummer? Two free album offer and you choose Eminem and Cypress Hill hahaha. God damn my HN music taste bingo board would have SMACKED.

> Let people pirate if it’s the easy route for them FFS. Blame the record labels and distributors, they’re the ones at fault here.

Except I'm not referring to anyone who hasn't retained their masters/credits outside of their first record 20+ years ago. The rest of their catalogs are producing checks, but they're fractions of cents per play because streaming music services that everyone here hates.

The flip side is not ganking their shit off the internet for free (they're available and doing numbers on public trackers FYI)... it's purchasing their shit... why is this so confusing and/or combative for y'all?

> Not the guy you ask, but for me, I just want convenient digital thing on my laptop I actually own, not rent. I live in 2022 and don't want that physical crap.

Welp I got you bruh bruh...

> I would have no problem to pay for DRM-free and location-independent stuff, but all this thing with "rights owners", "you can't hear that in this location", "you can't download it to listen offline and locally" is a total bullshit.

Give me your two favorite artists and I'll send you their latest releases in lossless ripped form after I cop their physical records. You pay me the cost of the physical medium (which I'll immediately turn around and go donate to the public library for others to enjoy) and I'll fully eat S&H etc aka any dollar amount over the cost of said physical medium. That fits your description of 'no problem to pay', yeah?

> I don't care what some lawman or government thinks. I also don't care about 5$ per month, that's nothing. But for my money, for any amount, I expect some respect and not this "money cow" attitude.

Yes all the artists I know could definitely be placed in one of your three categories; lawmen, government entities, and/or money cows. That certainly doesn't drive home my point that you're all disconnected & wildly removed from reality.