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> The second takeaway is that saying “sin taxes are regressive” or “sin taxes are progressive” largely misses the point. There is much more variation among households within income groups than across them in purchases of sin goods (Figure 3). Even among the lowest-income groups, the majority of households pay negligible amounts of sin taxes, and there are heavy smokers and heavy drinkers at all levels of education and income.

Comment · 5 years ago

Ironic from a website that requires me to allow javascript to run before I can read a text-and-image blog post.

Comment · 5 years ago

Caught my attention too so I looked it up. Looks like a great list of goals to me.

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

Comment · 5 years ago

This is an amendment to a bill.

Comment · 5 years ago

Is Tether now backed by a reasonable amount of real dollars? I'm surprised to see it being used in such a serious application after years of hearing how it was a scam.

edit: looked it up, still looks like a total scam. I hope El Salvador is able to get through this without getting screwed and I guess I'll assume Strike (first time I've heard of it) is just as shady until I hear otherwise:

https://coingeek.com/crypto-crime-cartel-tether-using-its-st...

Comment · 5 years ago

Neither of those things have units on them, so that's obviously not the comparison they were trying to draw. The way I see the comment, labor is more valuable to society than putting up capital is, so the government should incentivize labor by raising the capital gains tax.

Comment · 5 years ago

Thinkpad X1 Carbon, although I'm not sure what the touchscreen support actually looks like (I bought the Windows version of the machine and installed my own Linux distro)