Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out

Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out by NamTaf on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:11AM (#7384093)

For what it's worth, Australia's been a pretty good case study on how significantly increased (+70%) taxes - and therefore, prices - for alcohol did not deter binge drinking [1]. All it did was shift the consumption from one form to another, as well as decrease drinking between binges. In that sense, you could arguably say that you're not materially increasing the prevalence of binge drinking but really just saving the money of those who are inevitably going to do it.

Then again, binge drinking here is baked in to the cultural psyche. It may still be seen as more dangerous and therefore less socially acceptable in the States.

[1]: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2013/06/alcopops-tax-fails...

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Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out by bennyg on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @01:16AM (#7384106)

Yeah, I've read tons of statistics from both sides of the debate, and still feel a little morally wrong for it. I did add taxi calling directly from the app to 7 different local taxi companies to help assuage some of my perceived guilt. The taxi page does see visits in my analytics though, so that's good if nothing else.

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Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out by aestra on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @08:03AM (#7385063)

>It may still be seen as more dangerous and therefore less socially acceptable in the States.

Binge drinking is completely socially acceptable in the States.

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Re:Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out by msellout on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:23PM (#7386554)

Depending on your social group.

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