The Fake Factory That Pumped Out Real Money
Making high-quality biodiesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million to not make it was kind of a snap
Hasnain says:
"In the early going, sellers sent the EPA spreadsheets listing RINs sold, strictly for record keeping. Skeptics wondered whether this system would work in the real world. Michael Hubbard, a former EPA special agent for criminal enforcement in Boston, says, “Folks like me would sit in the room with senior leadership, and they’d be saying people are going to self-report, and we would be rolling our eyes.”"
Posted on 2016-07-18T05:51:30+0000
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Posted on 2016-07-16T20:35:09+0000
One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana
New research shows a dramatic drop in painkiller prescriptions after medical marijuana laws are passed.
Hasnain says:
Interesting data, albeit with a click bait headline.
"In medical-marijuana states, the average doctor prescribed 265 fewer doses of antidepressants each year, 486 fewer doses of seizure medication, 541 fewer anti-nausea doses and 562 fewer doses of anti-anxiety medication.
But most strikingly, the typical physician in a medical-marijuana state prescribed 1,826 fewer doses of painkillers in a given year."
Posted on 2016-07-16T17:13:41+0000
Up to 70% of people in developed countries 'have seen incomes stagnate'
New report calculates that earnings did not rise for more than half a billion people between 2005 and 2014
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Posted on 2016-07-16T05:36:09+0000
Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem — BestTech.io
For as long as I can remember there have been two Microsofts: Microsoft Sales and everyone else. It’s a split that exists in most tech…
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Posted on 2016-07-16T05:32:10+0000
Why Some Cuisines Are More Expensive Than Others: A Theory
The future is high-end Chinese food.
Hasnain says:
"Consider the cases of steak frites and carne asada. They both involve cooking a fairly high-quality cut of meat over high heat, and they’re both dishes whose origins are foreign to America. But they’re often listed on American menus at vastly different prices. Why?"
Posted on 2016-07-16T05:26:02+0000
Three Puzzles Inspired by Ramanujan | Quanta Magazine
Insights from the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan give us a number of ways to explore the infinite.
Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer
My mother has been working for one of the largest banks in the EU since before I was born and I’ve always been fascinated by her line of…
So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors
There is such a surplus of Ph.D.s that in the most popular fields, like biomedicine, fewer than one in six reach their goal in academia.
Hasnain says:
"Now, as a new crop of graduate students receives Ph.D.s in science, researchers worry over the future of some of these dedicated people; they’re trained to be academics and are often led to believe that anything else is an admission of failure."
Posted on 2016-07-14T21:37:17+0000
The Fight for the "Right to Repair"
Manufacturers have made it increasingly difficult for individuals or independent repair people to fix electronics. A growing movement is fighting back
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Posted on 2016-07-14T18:43:53+0000