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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Do Pipelines Really Create Lots of Jobs?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/environment-pipelines-jobs-carbon.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FKeystone%20XL&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
Thursday, May 3, 2018
How Bad is Political Partisanship?
A 2016 paper says that partisanship among America's lawmakers is higher today than at any point since Reconstruction after the Civil War.
"In 1990, the probability of correctly guessing a lawmaker's party from a one-minute speech was 55%...by 2008, the probability of correctly identifying a Democrat or Republican had jumped to 83%"
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22423
"In 1990, the probability of correctly guessing a lawmaker's party from a one-minute speech was 55%...by 2008, the probability of correctly identifying a Democrat or Republican had jumped to 83%"
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22423
The leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World
EternalBlue:
https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/
https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/
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