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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…

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) a…

Tata (a large automobile company based in India with cars globally) invested $100m in Uber. I imagine there will be more from other companies.

Not an expert but wouldn't randomized controlled trials (part of many economics papers) count as proper experimental setup?

Rs. 100 is $1.5... nowhere near the $0.3 purchasing power you mentioned!

Yes, but how much has the price risen since then? Back then $2 could get you a lot more than today right?

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 co…

Great links!

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…

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 …

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 mode…

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 an…

Love Appsheet! My wife uses it for her nonprofit New Incentives.

Maybe you don't but Marilyn Monroe and many other women do. It's important to understand it's distinction from forced prostitution (or similarly, prostitution resulting from povert…

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 major…

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…

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 d…

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.

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.

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).

Awesome, I've always wondered why I Apple never made a volume mixer! Maybe because Windows made it first ;). Thanks.

Somebody should make a graph about this to agree or disagree with this hypothesis.

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…