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Arthur Turrell
Personal blog · aeturrell.com/blogeconomicsdataprogramming
Arthur Turrell's personal blog at aeturrell.com covers economics, data and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Arthur Turrell's blog, linked for a post proposing a ticket rebate scheme to stop touting, and his book Star Builders, on which one commenter asks for opinions.
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Arthur Turrell is an economic data scientist.
What Hacker News says?
Here is an alternative idea: https://aeturrell.com/blog/posts/one-trick-to-stop-ticket-to... The key idea is that only the original ticket buyer is eligible for a large rebate when attending the event. It prevents touting, but does not mean everyone who wants a ticket gets one. Though in practice it is perhaps to techie, and in the end not dramatically different to what Glastonbury Festival does, which is that the t…
Comment linking /blog/posts/one-trick-to-stop-ticket-touts/
on “UK gov to ban selling show tickets above face price”Submitted The explosion in time series forecasting packages in data science as a story · 22 points
HN discussionAny opinions on the book mentioned: Star Builders by Arthur Turrel https://aeturrell.com/
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