Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - June 8, 2014
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This week:
The new emissions rules aren't going to come without costs
Two things to know about every new regulation: One, they're never free. Regulations have the same effect as an explicit tax, but just through a more circuitous route. Two, every cost imposed (via tax or regulation) has an implicit cost, too, in that it diverts resources from something else. Sometimes, the tradeoff is justified -- but not always.
One-paragraph book review: The Science of Success by Charles Koch
The CIA debuts on Twitter
Maybe that's the sign Twitter has become irreversably mainstream
Vodafone basically says there's no such thing as un-surveilled cellphone use
It's not just the NSA wiretapping phones in America -- Vodafone says six countries don't even bother to get wiretaps before getting access to phone records