The belief by technical experts and bureaucrats that it is either too difficult or too dangerous to talk about technical details in public is just as much a roadblock to fruitful public policy discourse as technical illiteracy on the part of journalists, policymakers, and the public.

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Most Republicans talk about pruning government in the abstract, but shrink from offering details that might offend one lobby or another.

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While talk-show host Oprah Winfrey has not released details of exactly what Armstrong said in the recorded interview, she appeared to confirm media reports Tuesday that the former seven-time Tour de France champion admits doping and lying about it.

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In another talk, Ryerson University graduate researcher Paul Vet showed that geotagged tweets themselves can be aggregated to determine sensitive details like where a user lives or works.

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