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Link three is largely a list of scientific papers that show the effectiveness of Ivermectin and Fenbendazol in curing cancer.

You laughing your ass off triggers alarms.

You're being a bit gratuitously negative, which is against HN rules, considering the magnitude of the potential impact of this work. Ivermectin won the Nobel Prize.

"First-in-the-World Ivermectin, Mebendazole and Fenbendazole Protocol in Cancer has been peer-reviewed and published on Sep.19, 2024!"

It isn't.

Does not restoring the tax deduction for software dev in the US help solo founders who don't draw salary to compete with large businesses?

> That assumes the vendor runs a buy-back scheme. That would cost

What would it cost? The vendor runs software that sells tickets. The same software can buy tickets back, invalidate the ticket IDs, and issue new tickets with new IDs. This feature can be part of the software at no additional cost.

Not running a buy-back scheme possible costs more to customers because of today's scalpers.

> How do you distinguish between someone buying tickets as a gift and someone who sold them on in a manner you did not detect?

As the venue/band, you don't need to. Sell to anyone.

As the customer, when you're buying from a scalper you know you're buying at a higher price than the advertised price.

> what if the group of friends changes - who pays the admin fees?

I don't see what admin fees must exist for this. Software manages anything. Printing a new ticket is cheap.

> Many scalpers are rather experienced and organised.

So is law enforcement. Scalpers can't hide the fact that they're selling.

Congratulations on finishing this.

If you were to do this again, how would you organize the source code differently?

You don't permit ticket transfers. Instead you sell tickets back to the venue for the price they were bought. Your tennis buddies would better be ready to buy the ticket from the venue 1 second after you sold it back to the venue, else someone else might get it.

Scalpers can't transfer tickets in this system.

Use quadratic post fees. The larger the number of people who try to view a post, the larger the fee becomes or the post stops being viewable.

So the fee isn't a one-time fee, but an "open" fee that keeps increasing.

Another mechanism is to require a fee to view. If after viewing the content the user deems the content isn't valuable, they flag it in some way or they don't bookmark it, and this indicates the poster should pay the display fee.

Anyone who sells is a scalper.

This is easy to notice. You can't go around saying "I've got two front row" when the mere act of saying it gets you noticed. You can't post online you're selling tickets because it gets you noticed.

Only the venue/band sells. Only the venue/band buys back tickets, and they're required to buy them back at the price they were sold. Full refund of ticket price and bond.

If noticing scalpers is easy, the bond doesn't need to be silly high. Catch a scalper and you get 50% of their bond.

If you resell, you're a scalper.

If you return the ticket to the venue/band, you get your money back, get the bond back, and you're not a scalper.

Charging the ticket buyer the price of the bond doesn't only harm the fans that want to see the show. It also harms the band that won't have fans come see the show. It's an incentive for the band to buy back unused tickets. Bands currently don't do that.

Fans demanding ticket buy backs puts pressure on bands to put an end to scalping. It's fans who pay the entire cost of scalping now, not bands.