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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America (2000) (nber.org)

3 days ago | throw0101c | nber.org | newest

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How–and Why–U.S. Capitalism Is Unlike Any Other (wsj.com)

3 days ago | throw0101c | wsj.com | newest

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GOP may succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites (arstechnica.com)

4 days ago | throw0101c | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Tylenol-maker shares hit after report RFK Jr will suggest autism link (bbc.com)

4 days ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | frontpage

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Why Gen X is the real loser generation (economist.com)

5 days ago | throw0101c | economist.com | newest

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White House to Rebrand Pentagon the Department of War (politico.com)

5 days ago | throw0101c | politico.com | frontpage

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Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Unions (bloomberglaw.com)

a week ago | throw0101c | bloomberglaw.com | newest

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John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | throw0101c | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

Estimating the Effects of Political Pressure on the Fed (2024) (nber.org)

2 weeks ago | throw0101c | nber.org | newest

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Trump says he's removing Fed Gov. Cook citing his admin's allegations of fraud (nbcnews.com)

2 weeks ago | throw0101c | nbcnews.com | frontpage

2

How can England possibly be running out of water? (theguardian.com)

2 weeks ago | throw0101c | theguardian.com | frontpage

2

Study finds sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on (tulane.edu)

2 weeks ago | throw0101c | tulane.edu | newest

2

Why Did Hollywood Stop Making Comedies? A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)

2 weeks ago | throw0101c | statsignificant.com | newest

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It's the Housing, Stupid (ofdollarsanddata.com)

3 weeks ago | throw0101c | ofdollarsanddata.com | frontpage

2

We stopped building subways cheaply (worksinprogress.news)

3 weeks ago | throw0101c | worksinprogress.news | frontpage

10

China Is Winning the Cyberwar (foreignaffairs.com)

3 weeks ago | throw0101c | foreignaffairs.com | frontpage

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The First $10k is the Most Important (ofdollarsanddata.com)

3 weeks ago | throw0101c | ofdollarsanddata.com | newest

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EJ Antoni: Trump picks conservative economist to head Bureau of Labor Statistics (bbc.com)

4 weeks ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | newest

3

GPS Jamming Extends to Low-Earth Orbit (airandspaceforces.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | airandspaceforces.com | frontpage

2

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down Operations (deadline.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | deadline.com | newest

3

Union Pacific talks advance, regulator readies for $200B rail merger review (reuters.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | reuters.com | newest

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A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map (trains.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | trains.com | frontpage

12

Why Doesn't the US Use 220V Like Everyone Else in the World? (2021) (kathylovesphysics.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | kathylovesphysics.com | frontpage

2

System Administrator Appreciation Day (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | throw0101c | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics (paulkedrosky.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | paulkedrosky.com | best

12

US inflation rises as tariffs drive up prices (bbc.com)

a month ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | frontpage

2

Rick Perry's AI plan: a nuclear campus in Trump's image (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Ice Cream Barge (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | throw0101c | wikipedia.org | newest

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The President's Weapon: What It Takes to Launch a Nuclear Weapon (theatlantic.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | theatlantic.com | newest

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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac ordered to consider crypto as an asset (apnews.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | apnews.com | newest

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Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training (reuters.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | reuters.com | newest

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Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case–But There's a Catch (wired.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | wired.com | newest

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Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | theguardian.com | newest

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Lawsuit Moves Forward After Kamala Harris Received Zero Votes in a County (latintimes.com)

3 months ago | throw0101c | latintimes.com | frontpage

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Trump’s Budget Hawk Takes Over the DOGE Agenda (wsj.com)

4 months ago | throw0101c | wsj.com | newest

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French interior minister to meet with crypto businesses after recent kidnappings (lemonde.fr)

4 months ago | throw0101c | lemonde.fr | newest

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Cryptocurrency boss's daughter escapes kidnap gang in Paris street (bbc.com)

4 months ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | newest

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Why Do People Stay Poor? (2021) (ssrn.com)

4 months ago | throw0101c | ssrn.com | newest

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France has become a nation of heirs again (lemonde.fr)

4 months ago | throw0101c | lemonde.fr | newest

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Big Newsletter: The history and politics of monopoly power (thebignewsletter.com)

5 months ago | throw0101c | thebignewsletter.com | newest

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Did a private equity fire truck manufacturer consolidation worsen the LA fires? (thebignewsletter.com)

5 months ago | throw0101c | thebignewsletter.com | newest

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Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS: CDC, NIH, FDA (usatoday.com)

5 months ago | throw0101c | usatoday.com | frontpage

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Top US vaccine official forced to resign from FDA, reports say (bbc.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | newest

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Previous administrations were wary of Signal: Trumpworld has embraced it (independent.co.uk)

6 months ago | throw0101c | independent.co.uk | newest

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[flagged] Discredited anti-vaccine advocate will lead CDC study on vaccines and autism (arstechnica.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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FBI scales back staffing, tracking of domestic terrorism probes, sources say (reuters.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | reuters.com | frontpage

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They flew into hurricanes for NOAA, until they got caught up in DOGE firings (bbc.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | newest

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Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks (washingtonpost.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | washingtonpost.com | newest

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FCC to Meet on GPS Alternatives (gpsworld.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | gpsworld.com | newest

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The Forces That Flipped Trump from Crypto Critic to 'Crypto President' (wsj.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | wsj.com | newest

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US seizing more illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders (thelogic.co)

6 months ago | throw0101c | thelogic.co | frontpage

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Welcome to the Zero Sum Era. Now How Do We Get Out? (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Cuts to US national parks and forests met with backlash (bbc.com)

6 months ago | throw0101c | bbc.com | frontpage

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Britain advised by US insiders to reduce UK reliance on US military equipment (thetimes.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | thetimes.com | frontpage

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Trump Plans to Liquidate Public Lands to Finance Sovereign Wealth Fund (americanprogress.org)

7 months ago | throw0101c | americanprogress.org | newest

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MacRumors Turns 25 Years Old (macrumors.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | macrumors.com | frontpage

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Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson of Turncoat KGB Spy (jacobsilverman.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | jacobsilverman.com | newest

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NOAA scientists ordered to get clearance before talking to Canadian counterparts (cbc.ca)

7 months ago | throw0101c | cbc.ca | newest

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Happy Birthday to YouTube (adweek.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | adweek.com | newest

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Economics of parking professor Donald Shoup has passed away (parkingreform.org)

7 months ago | throw0101c | parkingreform.org | newest

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[flagged] Republican Congressman Introduces Bill Seeking Abolishment of OSHA (hipaajournal.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | hipaajournal.com | newest

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Could climate insurance losses trigger a financial crisis? (cbc.ca)

7 months ago | throw0101c | cbc.ca | newest

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Tariffs Give U.S. Steelmakers a Green Light to Lift Prices (wsj.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | wsj.com | frontpage

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The legal theory that would make Trump the most powerful president in US history (vox.com)

7 months ago | throw0101c | vox.com | frontpage

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Man pleads guilty in drone crash with Quebec water bomber fighting L.A. fires (cbc.ca)

8 months ago | throw0101c | cbc.ca | frontpage

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Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World (2024) (nist.gov)

8 months ago | throw0101c | nist.gov | newest

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Hobbling of US Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | throw0101c | nytimes.com | newest

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UTOPIA: Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | throw0101c | wikipedia.org | newest

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Why Are the Dutch So Famous for Waterworks? (practical.engineering)

8 months ago | throw0101c | practical.engineering | newest

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Report of Special Counsel Jack Smith, Volume 1, January 2025 [pdf] (justice.gov)

8 months ago | throw0101c | justice.gov | newest

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German institutions depart X/Twitter, a day after Musk's Weidel talk (dw.com)

8 months ago | throw0101c | dw.com | frontpage

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Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over Palisades fire, FAA says (latimes.com)

8 months ago | throw0101c | latimes.com | frontpage

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Cory Doctorow's prescient novella about health insurance and murder (theguardian.com)

9 months ago | throw0101c | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Ronald Reagan Tried to Shrink Government Spending (history.com)

9 months ago | throw0101c | history.com | newest

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We all took the DVD boom era for granted (filmstories.co.uk)

9 months ago | throw0101c | filmstories.co.uk | frontpage

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Brandolini's Law (wikipedia.org)

10 months ago | throw0101c | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Why Not Bluesky (tbray.org)

10 months ago | throw0101c | tbray.org | frontpage

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No, Tim Cook Didn't Say He Prefers Logitech's MX Master 3 over the Magic Mouse (macrumors.com)

10 months ago | throw0101c | macrumors.com | newest

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A Calculator's Most Important Button Has Been Removed (theatlantic.com)

11 months ago | throw0101c | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (theverge.com)

11 months ago | throw0101c | theverge.com | frontpage

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Starfront Observatories: remote telescope hosting (starfront.space)

11 months ago | throw0101c | starfront.space | newest

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Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites (nature.com)

11 months ago | throw0101c | nature.com | newest

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Do I Need to Use Kosher Salt? (2023) (seriouseats.com)

11 months ago | throw0101c | seriouseats.com | newest

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London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids (grist.org)

12 months ago | throw0101c | grist.org | newest

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A new path for Kyber on the web for Chrome (googleblog.com)

12 months ago | throw0101c | googleblog.com | frontpage

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Centimetres or Millimetres (2008) [pdf] (metricationmatters.org)

a year ago | throw0101c | metricationmatters.org | newest

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Most Trustworthy Companies 2024 (newsweek.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | newsweek.com | newest

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The geography of crime in four U.S. cities: Perceptions and reality (2023) (brookings.edu)

a year ago | throw0101c | brookings.edu | frontpage

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Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change? (oup.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | oup.com | frontpage

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Fax machines permeate German business culture. But parliament is ditching them (npr.org)

a year ago | throw0101c | npr.org | newest

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Workmanship standard for crimping, interconnecting cables, harnesses, and wiring (nasa.gov)

a year ago | throw0101c | nasa.gov | best

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PyPy has been working for me for several years now (utcc.utoronto.ca)

a year ago | throw0101c | utoronto.ca | best

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Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic (time.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | time.com | best

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How to Build a Suburb (1995) (wilsonquarterly.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | wilsonquarterly.com | frontpage

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The Happiness Trinity (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | theatlantic.com | newest

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I got married and over-engineered everything (connellmccarthy.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | connellmccarthy.com | newest

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The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers (nubero.ch)

a year ago | throw0101c | nubero.ch | best

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Donated Solar Glasses Recycling and Distribution (astronomerswithoutborders.org)

a year ago | throw0101c | astronomerswithoutborders.org | newest

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The long overdue death of the stick shift car (cnn.com)

a year ago | throw0101c | cnn.com | newest

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March 31: World Backup Day (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | throw0101c | wikipedia.org | newest