rsgoheen

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by rsgoheen 3y ago
Full NBER paper here: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31515/w315... From the paper's abstract: "We conduct an RCT in the data entry sector in India that exogenously allocates
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Fully Remote New Hires Show 18% Drop in Productivity, Study Says(bloomberg.com)
4 points by rsgoheen 3y ago|2 comments
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The startup creating a coffee-less cup of coffee(bloomberg.com)
1 points by rsgoheen 5y ago|0 comments
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A Plant-Based Coating Helps Small Farmers Stop Crop Rot(bloomberg.com)
1 points by rsgoheen 6y ago|1 comments
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Epidemiologist predicts Stockholm will reach “heard immunity” by June(economist.com)
3 points by rsgoheen 6y ago|0 comments
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Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman’s Statement Confirms the Worst(theatlantic.com)
159 points by rsgoheen 8y ago|116 comments
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by rsgoheen 9y ago
Not necessarily. Historically (though I couldn't find recent hard data in 60 seconds of searching the nets) cars have been safer [1][2], and in particular, less likely to roll over in an accident. Furthermore, when a SUV or truck col
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The great nutrient collapse(politico.com)
2 points by rsgoheen 9y ago|0 comments
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Robot Nannies Look After 3M Chickens in Coops of the Future(bloomberg.com)
2 points by rsgoheen 10y ago|0 comments
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Trump leak raises new questions about Telegram security(theverge.com)
2 points by rsgoheen 10y ago|0 comments
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I’m learning to code at 56(medium.freecodecamp.com)
11 points by rsgoheen 10y ago|6 comments
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Post-Brexit Rumblings Spook U.K. Tech Boom(bloomberg.com)
1 points by rsgoheen 10y ago|0 comments
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by rsgoheen 11y ago
Amazon streaming only works when you're in your home country, no matter where your billing address is. At least for Amazon UK. When I'm in America, I have to VPN back to the UK to download content for the flight back.
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by rsgoheen 11y ago
Count me in the "yes" camp as well. I've been using ThinkPads off and on since before IBM sold it off, so I'm quite use to it. It's definitely less accurate, but I can do quite a bit while only lifting one finger o
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Betting on a scarcity of rare earth elements leads to bankruptcy for Mollycorp(bloomberg.com)
6 points by rsgoheen 11y ago|0 comments
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With 61 Seconds in a Minute, Markets Brace for Trouble(bloomberg.com)
105 points by rsgoheen 11y ago|105 comments
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A test city in Michigan for driverless cars, with robot pedestrians(bloomberg.com)
2 points by rsgoheen 11y ago|0 comments
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Companies exploit loopholes to avoid regulation on genetically modified crops(nytimes.com)
2 points by rsgoheen 12y ago|0 comments
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It's Too Hard to Manage Music Now: Why It's Okay to Miss the Old iPod(theatlantic.com)
4 points by rsgoheen 12y ago|0 comments
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The autonomous Google car may never happen(slate.com)
61 points by rsgoheen 12y ago|63 comments
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The Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto-Currencies(arxiv.org)
3 points by rsgoheen 12y ago|0 comments
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The extremely difficult Dark Souls II and the rise of “masocore” gaming.(slate.com)
1 points by rsgoheen 13y ago|0 comments
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Reindeer and other animals see "flashing" powerlines(slate.com)
1 points by rsgoheen 13y ago|0 comments
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2013 Was a Terrible Year for Evolution(thedailybeast.com)
3 points by rsgoheen 13y ago|0 comments
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99-Year-Old Minimum Wage Custodian ... Why Everyone Hates Economics(slate.com)
13 points by rsgoheen 13y ago|3 comments
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RIP Bitcoin, I think(unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com.au)
3 points by rsgoheen 14y ago|0 comments
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by rsgoheen 15y ago
Planet Money started off as a project for a single episode of This American Life (the "Giant Pool of Money" episode, one of the best pieces of reporting on the credit crisis, while we were still in the first part of it). They've shared con
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by rsgoheen 16y ago
I have a Zune (16gb), my partner has a Zune, and there's one that's the house Zune. The house Zune was my first one, which I got for free from a guy I know from Microsoft who was given it as a reward for shipping early. The second Zune I