As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything.
For that low of a payout on 1 billion streams, you'd have to (as you said) have a lot of people on your split sheet so your royalty percentage is very low or have a terrible deal on percentage with your label, distributor, or both.
Snoop Dogg isn't living off Bic lighter endorsements. He definitely makes a lot of money on music.
Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would love to transition into something more public. I don't really want to mess around with Jekyll, Medium, or Substack. Public Notion feels sort of compelling.
I struggled with linear algebra in college, in part because my professor had a tenuous grasp of the English language. Strang's book was our textbook, and I did a bit of digging and found the OCW lectures. I stopped going to class, and instead would spend the time at the library to watch Strang's lectures and take notes.
I was one of the very few students to ace the class, and I will be forever grateful.
I never met Bob Lee, but I was a huge fan. Google Guice was exceptionally useful for non-Spring-based dependency injection in the early 00s. I don't know if Bob had his hands in the Google Collections API, but that in combination with Guice really made Java engineering in the JDK 6 days much more bearable.
Yup. For one thing Bob wrote the map implementation that evolved into Guava's com.google.common.cache (for the confused: "Google Collections" was renamed to Guava). But also he was just one of the people that I always bounced ideas off of; he definitely had an impact.
'Surveillance footage reviewed by The Standard appears to show Bob Lee, a 43-year-old former top executive at Square, walking on the sidewalk up Main Street away from the Bay Bridge at around 2:30 a.m., holding his side with one hand and using his phone with the other.
Lee then crosses the intersection at Harrison Street toward a parked white Camry with its lights flashing, the video appears to show. Lee lifts his shirt—as if to show the driver his wound and ask for help—and then falls to the ground after the car drives away.
He then gets up and walks back down Main Street toward the Bay Bridge before falling to the ground in front of 403 Main St., an apartment building known as the Portside'.
Yes, and I know it is activating, but please don't let that difficult energy convert into flamewar here. We're trying for something else, especially in this thread.
My comment wasn't directed at @benburton, I was just pointing out amongst all the warm memories of a very decent human being that San Francisco is becoming increasingly lawless.
I was badly beaten and robbed 12 years ago in the early hours by an unknown assailant downtown. It is exponentially worse today and something needs to happen and fast to get this under control so more people don't die or are badly injured and to stem the flow of talent leaving the area.
This issue isn't as cut and dry as simply banning scalping. I spend most of my discretionary income on music... merchandise, vinyl, concert tickets. At any given point in time I have tickets to about 7-8 performances in the future. Sometimes life gets in the way, and I simply cannot attend an event. In those situations, I have a very legitimate reason to want to sell concert tickets, and I do. Sometimes I will end up selling for under what I paid, other times I will make a small profit, more rarely I will say fuck it and just give the tickets away on social media to friends or coworkers. In the long term, this generally nets me out at zero in terms of gaining/losing money on ticket purchases.
My point, I guess, is that there's a legitimate, healthy reason for a resale market. Throwing the ticketing resale market out with the scalper bathwater is a myopic solution.
Buying a bunch of different tickets to different shows you intend to go to, and selling some of them because things come up or you change your mind, is one thing.
Buying 20 tickets to the same event that you couldn't care less about and selling them for cash outside the venue is something else entirely.
Yeah, scalping provides very little value to society except profit to the scalpers. It's parasitic. Unfortunately the methods to combat it, like ticket lotteries, better identity verification and per-id quotas for purchase and transfer, aren't in the interest of ticket vendors. Artists generally can't wield much power either.
You wrote an entire sentence that has literally nothing to do with the ticket resale market and how scalping is related.
A secondary ticketing market enables scalping. There are legitimate reasons for the resale market to exist. If you think that the existence and dynamics of a resale market are unrelated to scalping... I would encourage you to look into critical reasoning courses which are perhaps available at your local community college at a low cost.
How do you propose we eliminate scalping, while preserving the secondary market? Go ahead, I'm waiting. Literally all ticketing companies are waiting for your profound insight.
> How do you propose we eliminate scalping, while preserving the secondary market? Go ahead, I'm waiting. Literally all ticketing companies are waiting for your profound insight.
Mark the ticket (physical or digital) with the price paid for it, and make it illegal to resell over this price. You may still have smaller scalping rings, but you would be enabled to go after the bigger scalpers.
