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Re:Show HN: Points and Miles Database on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:29PM (#37225068)
This is cool. One feature that would be awesome would be to query the "graph" of points.

I have point type A and I want type B - what's the most economical path to walk between the two point types.

Re:Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:28PM (#36699458)
Totally just guessing: Maybe to reduce inbound spam that's forwarded to the buyers? If it was one central email address, spammers could just send a ton of images/PDFs to all known prefixes of that central domain, but needing to guess the prefix + right domain adds a layer of indirection? They may not do much validation on the forwarded tickets, just store it for disputes
Re:Stubhub buying their own tickets under fake names? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:05PM (#36699019)
I was curious the last time I sold tickets so actually called them asked about this. The emails are aliases to verify the tickets are valid, then they are forwarded to the buyer.

Usually the format is <email prefix of buyer>@<stubhub controlled domain> and the tickets are forwarded pretty quickly. This way stubhub can actually validate you sent over a PDF + the contents of those PDFs or images if the buyer disputes delivery.

Wow, this makes running LLMs locally significantly more approachable. Very cool!

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