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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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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

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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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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

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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…

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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.

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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

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