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by pratyushag 10y ago
Great question. Top three reasons: 1) There are many benefits from delivering newborns in health clinics outside of Nevirapine. 2) It would be much more challenging to reach all of the traditional birth attendants, maintain constant supply
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by pratyushag 11y ago
I think this is a great game and a portrayal of reality where a small number of people get most of the wealth, a 50% number are middle class with enough to be just okay (or at 1) and with a still a very large number who can barely have a co
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Tata (a large automobile company based in India with cars globally) invested $100m in Uber. I imagine there will be more from other companies.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Not an expert but wouldn't randomized controlled trials (part of many economics papers) count as proper experimental setup?
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Does Instacart make a loss on each delivery?(pbs.twimg.com)
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Rs. 100 is $1.5... nowhere near the $0.3 purchasing power you mentioned!
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Yes, but how much has the price risen since then? Back then $2 could get you a lot more than today right?
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by pratyushag 11y ago
In all seriousness, can somebody please help me understand what can be bought for $1.9 and how they came up with this arbitrary number?! I don't know if anybody can even get (or cook) one full meal a day for that... maybe I'm miss
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Great links!
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Thanks for this question! You can find GiveWell's preliminary cost-effectiveness assessment of New Incentives in their writeup here: http://www.givewell.org/international/charities/new-incentiv... . It's
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Great question! The key is in what way are we using tech. Our model, conditional cash transfers (CCTs), has been used for many years by governments in several contexts. We are not inventing anything new by any means. However, our manner of
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by pratyushag 11y ago
My wife runs an early stage charity called New Incentives supported by Givewell, hoping to become a candidate for their top charity recommendation. They use an evidence-backed model called conditional cash transfers. They give money to disa
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Only if the funds are shared between the two people fighting the lawsuit... In the current market, the entity spending the most money generally wins. This needs to go away first and it can go away if both (or all) entities in a lawsuit have
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Love Appsheet! My wife uses it for her nonprofit New Incentives.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
If Playboy wants to be a fashion magazine, it will probably not remain one only for men. If it does, well... they won't make much money because women probably make up a large majority of fashion purchasers. I think if Playboy started t
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Playboy should relaunch itself as a women empowerment magazine. There is a strong sense of empowerment for women to pose nude and playboy helped bring about this revolution (or can take some claim for it). We don't need another Vice bu
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by pratyushag 11y ago
If you're an active twitter user, you likely know how it works. But otherwise, the @ mentions etc. are not very simple w/o somebody teaching you. And even after that, it can seem difficult.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
I believe if you have the domain name you should be able to get the twitter handle. You can always just submit for a trademark, that's easy and cheap.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
I agree. In fact, I half expected them to write alphabet (name of the company). I wasn't aware of the new logo and had browsed to Google.com to search for something.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Google voice is amazing! I travel all over the world, in fact, haven't been to the US for two years, and I haven't found anything as good and cheap (free).
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Awesome, I've always wondered why I Apple never made a volume mixer! Maybe because Windows made it first ;). Thanks.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Somebody should make a graph about this to agree or disagree with this hypothesis.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
The concept of Uber (i.e., being able to reliably call a taxi from the phone) has a lot of value but there are significant competitive advantages of being the first to a customer's phone or by being the cheaper option to get adoption.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
THIS is awesome! Great to see some positive news of talent coming from NIgeria. <as somebody who moved from SF to Nigeria>
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Given your motivations and comments, I would recommend that you have a whatsapp like subscription in place. One can get around paying for the subcription by inviting friends. For best results, make it easy enough to select all for the invit
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by pratyushag 11y ago
If you like the idea of giving such an income (or cash transfer) to people but the idea of an unconditional basic income seems too far away, you can contribute to newincentives.org which is providing cash transfers to poor pregnant HIV moth
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by pratyushag 11y ago
Slightly off-topic: In case you are looking for a no strings attached place to donate, where money is given to women with the incentive of helping them deliver non-HIV babies, then donate to newincentives.org.
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by pratyushag 11y ago
The name is not very creative since Box came up with Box notes a while ago. Not sure why they didn't try a different name instead.
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by pratyushag 12y ago
As somebody who has gone through immigration hell in US and abroad, I can tell you that having a lawyer by your side is very beneficial. I used Gotcher Law in California (although, location doesn't really matter) and they have been am
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by pratyushag 12y ago
MAybe that's why the comment about the company not having experience in hiring managers...?

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