Wednesday separate links
1. Colombia’s booming cocaine economy (NYT). 2. New NBER paper, examines a theoretical approach to designing research grants. 3. In the prices of wines. 4. […]
Why I’m Skeptical of Market Failure Corrections
In almost any economics textbook, one will find a discussion of market failure. The conversation will usually go something like this: markets are great, but […]
Russia’s Real GDP and GDP Before Military Spending
Using the WEO estimates for April 2024 (the July update shows no growth update for 2024, and -0.3 ppts in 2025 y/y), we can see […]
It’s awkward to provide tenant-level data encryption for AWS users
“Many SaaS providers do not offer multi-tenant data protection and choose to rely on data at rest encryption for all their customers’ data,” explained Ho. […]
Links 7/17/2024 | bare capitalism
Yves here. More links today due to Trump’s firing post-mortems. ****** Contact history’: Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans ScienceDaily […]
IT Staffing Agency Smoothstack Traps Tech Workers in “Modern Day Indentured Servitude”, Federal Suit Alleges
One has to give the Department of Justice props for pursuing what appears to be a very bad actor, despite the fact that it is […]
APT uses Windows zero-day to launch zombie IE attacks
“Internet Explorer (IE) officially ended support on June 15, 2022,” the researchers explained. “Additionally, IE has been officially disabled in recent versions of Windows 10, […]
6 College Majors Too many people end up regretting
AshTproductions / Shutterstock.com Getting a college degree is expensive. Millions of Americans continue to struggle to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in student […]
Sometimes the cybersecurity tech industry is its own worst enemy
It’s wrong! In theory, API communication sounds great, but it’s very limited in practice. For it to work properly, vendors must open their APIs to […]
10 Best AI Ideas for 2024 (Making 5000$ Per Month)
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, opportunities for tech enthusiasts and freelancers are expanding at an unprecedented rate. If you are looking to monetize […]