Lynne Kiesling Wow, it’s really empowering to look at the activity log and see all of those spam denials. I’ve installed MT-Blacklist and it’s running successfully; I’ve run into some problems in deleting the mounds of spam that had accumulated while I was moving, but it’s down to a manageable problem. I’ve also made my …
Lynne Kiesling Here’s a potentially mischievous idea for solving the problem Mike posed — using fingerprinting technology when you sell the drug, say, for example, an RFID tag in each pill’s section of a blister pack that will render it null if opened by someone other than the buyer. Loads of problems with this idea …
Michael Giberson Over at Economic Principals, David Warsh writes about current debates in drug pricing, and raises some excellent questions for researchers interested in economic systems design. About half of Warsh’s column concerns differential pricing, and half concerns alternative ways to organize and pay for research. The problem with differential pricing, what economists typically call …
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Lynne Kiesling This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is at The Frozen North. I’ve been a bad citizen this summer, what with work and house and all, and have not been contributing and advertising as much as I should be. Not surprisingly, I particularly liked Tim Worstall’s post on oil prices. Tim also gives a …
Lynne Kiesling The OED website has a feature that is dangerous for linguaphiles like myself — an email subscription word of the day. I already subscribe to A Word A Day, which I love both for the words and for the epigrams that Anu Garg picks to illustrate usage. But I’m often so crazy busy …
Lynne Kiesling Many thanks to Glenn Reynolds for his blackout-commemorative post that linked to us, and welcome to new readers from Instapundit! We are about more than electricity here at KP, so please keep checking in.
Lynne Kiesling Yeah, from me too. BTW, spent much of last week in Portland, Oregon, discussing how to move toward effective power markets in the Pacific Northwest. It was a great discussion, sponsored by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. More later …
As a followup note to my Friday posting, the joint U.S.-Canadian Task Force has issued a new report, “The August 14, 2003 Blackout, One Year Later: Actions Taken in the United States and Canada to Reduce Blackout Risk.” I haven’t yet had a chance to read this update, but expect comments later in the week.
Michael Giberson A host of newspaper articles and essays mark the one year anniversary of the August 14, 2003 Blackout. On Thursday, August 12, the Cato Institute?s Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor argue against linking electric industry reform agendas to the blackout on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. The blackout resulted …
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Mike Giberson On Sunday, I read the same Randall Parker post on “Vehicle to Grid” technology that Lynne discusses below. Then, just about 90 minutes later, the power went out in my neighborhood. Coincidence? Monday morning I spent a few minutes chasing down links and reading a few concept papers. Pretty cool stuff. Here is …
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