Interesting Links for 18-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. There has to be a better way to make titanium

(tags:materials )

2. Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by UK government

(tags:concerts tickets regulation UK )

3. Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

(tags:history obituary games lgbt )

Comments

[armiphlage]

Big ticket companies will now raise the face price of tickets to $100000, with a "special discount" to anyone who can answer a skill-testing question like "what is 2+2". So bots will still be able to buy all the tickets in advance, and raise the price to resell them to real people.

[andrewducker]

One would hope that that approach would not stand up in court.

[bens_dad]

The ticket companies don't have the seats or the final say in the price. The artists and the venues don't have an interest in the current racket, and have been complaining about current ticket company prices.

The ticket-sellers only selling point is web-sites that can handle huge bursts of traffic. Is there a reason that cannot be duplicated at scale and low cost if the ticket-sellers ask for a larger cut than the artists/venues ar willing to pay ?

[melchar]

The article about titanium was extremely fun to read and answered some questions I had idly pondered about.