Month: January 2008
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al-Sadr Truce
I watched the Democratic debate on Saturday night. There was a question about how things are going better in Iraq now, perhaps thanks to the surge, and what that meant to the candidates Iraq plans. There were some good answers, but I was surprised by an omission. Moktada al-Sadr, the head of the Mahdi army,…
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Separate Appliances
Why don’t people routinely make appliances which work together? The refrigerator generates heat; this should be routed into the oven. The oven generates heat; this should be routed into the hot water heater. This is probably not significant energy usage compared to cars; is it not worth doing at all? We need to keep working…
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Krugman on Globalization
Paul Krugman recently admitted that in some limited cases free trade is not a good idea. This an interesting admission from an economist who in the 90s was a strong proponent of globalization and free trade. I’ve thought for some time that free trade, and free flow of capital, without free immigration, leads to a…