“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” – Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president, Gartner Research.
“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
- Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal
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Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior by Spencer Bastani ... - SSRN
We analyze differences in tax filing between natives and immigrants, focusing on two empirical examples. First, we study deductions for costs associated with traveling between home and work allowed in the Swedish tax code. Using the total population of commuters within Sweden's largest commuting zone, we find that newly arrived immigrants file substantially less than natives, immigrants with a longer stay behave more like natives, and immigrants with the longest stay file the most, even more than natives. Second, we analyze bunching behavior among the self-employed at a large salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. We find much less bunching among immigrants, even after a long time in the host country, and the largest differences relative to natives in residential areas with a high immigrant concentration. Our findings have implications for the equity and efficiency of the tax system and the spatial patterns of residential and occupational choices for different ethnic groups.
Nigerian spammer made 3X average national salary firehosing macro-laden Word docs at world+dogAnd his boss monitored him with a RAT
A most entertaining piece of threat research from Check Point gives a unique insight into the "working" life of a Nigerian email spammer who made thousands of dollars from stolen credit cards alone in recent years.
#HERTOO? A Woman Who Accused Former Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Of Rape Was Found To Have Defamed Him. “As to why Kuta made the allegations, she acknowledged to Wynn’s attorney Tamara Peterson that she demanded $150 million from the casino mogul to drop her claims. Kuta was also able to jump on the #MeToo bandwagon in 2018, getting instant victim status simply because she made an allegation against a powerful man.”
A Different Way Of Understanding Emotional Intelligence
Here’s the 20,000 foot summary: Your brain’s most important job is not thinking or feeling or even seeing, but keeping your body alive and well so that you survive and thrive (and eventually reproduce). How is your brain to do this? Like a sophisticated fortune-teller, your brain constantly predicts. Its predictions ultimately become the emotions you experience and the expressions you perceive in other people. – Nautilus
Arvind Sabu (Chicago-Kent), Reframing Bitcoin and Tax Compliance, 64 St. Louis U. L.J. ___ (2020):
This
Article argues that, contrary to the common belief that Bitcoin enables
tax evasion, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) can increasingly
police transactions in Bitcoin. First, commercial and technical
intermediaries have emerged as part of Bitcoin’s ecosystem. This diverse
set of intermediaries can facilitate tax enforcement, as the litigation
over the IRS’s summons on Coinbase—the largest domestic digital asset
exchange—and subsequent IRS efforts show. These intermediaries could
report transactions to the IRS or even, one day, withhold and remit tax
payments. Second, the publicly visible, trustworthy nature of Bitcoin’s
blockchain—its unique role as a shared truth—allows tax authorities to
observe transaction flows. This renders Bitcoin unusually regulable for
tax purposes, as recent efforts by the IRS to rely on Bitcoin’s
blockchain to police tax evasion demonstrate.
#TwitterLaw Symposium, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 195-261 (2019):
Katherine A. Macfarlane (Idaho) & Lawprofblawg (Anonymous Professor, Top 100 Law School), Foreword, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 195 (2019)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (Chicago-Kent), Delete Your Account, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 199 (2019)
- Agnieszka McPeak (Duquesne), The Internet Made Me Do It: Reconciling Social Media and Professional Norms For Lawyers, Judges and Law Professors, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 205 (2019)
- Jaime A. Santos (Goodwin Procter), The Perils of Engaging on Social Media For Women Lawyers: Are the Benefits Worth the Risks?, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 233 (2019)
- Ed Timberlake, #Trademarks Twitter Addresses a Gap in the Literature, 55 Idaho L. Rev. 247 (2019)
Weird Internet Careers
Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet, has developed a Weird Internet Career as an internet linguist. In the first installment in a series on such jobs, McCulloch explains what they are:
Weird Internet Careers are the kinds of jobs that are impossible to explain to your parents, people who somehow make a living from the internet, generally involving a changing mix of revenue streams. Weird Internet Career is a term I made up (it had no google results in quotes before I started using it), but once you start noticing them, you’ll see them everywhere.Weird Internet Careers are weird because there is no one else who does exactly what they do. They’re internet because they rely on the internet as a cornerstone, such as bloggers, webcomics, youtubers, artists, podcasters, writers, developers, subject-matter experts, and other people in very specific niches. And they’re careers because they somehow manage to support themselves, often making money from some combination of ad revenue, t-shirt sales, other merch, ongoing membership/subscription (Patreon, Substack), crowdfunding (Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Ko-Fi), sponsorship deals, conventional book deals, self-published ebooks, selling online courses, selling products or apps or services, public speaking, and consulting.
I’ve had a Weird Internet Career for more than 15 years and even though it’s much more normalized now than when I started (folks generally know that people make money from being popular on YouTube or Instagram), it’s still a struggle to explain. Usually someone will ask me what I do and I tell them. Them, wide-eyed: “That’syour job?!” Then there’s a long pause and eventually their curiosity overwhelms their politeness and they tentatively say: “Can I ask…uh…how do you make money doing that?”
For awhile, in an attempt to have more symmetrical relationships with new friends — because 5 minutes of googling yields so much about who I am, leading to weird information imbalances — I would be vague about my profession, saying that I managed a website and not offering any further information. This approach often backfired because you’ve essentially given people a mystery, and mysteries must be solved. More than one person looked at me with a cocked eyebrow and asked, “Do you run a porn site? Is that why you don’t want to tell me?” *facepalm*
JOHN AUSTEN. Placating the Infrastructure Club
Infrastructure Australia’s 2020 priority list doesn’t recognise – let alone address fundamental problems. Continue reading