JuettnerDistrib

> In LA, everything is done to make sure the water yeets into the sea as quick as possible.

The infrastructure bill may change that [0]:

"Also, the money could fund stormwater capture and reuse projects, like the ones that filter rainwater into underground aquifers rather than let it flow into the ocean."

Anyone know how likely this actually is?

[0] https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/socal-could-get-b...

So is there also a kind of "reverse broken window" fallacy, e.g., for housing, where not tearing down an old... excuse me... "historic" building prevents the creation of bigger and better things?

> or a nearly-complete nuclear power plant.

Nah, that would never happen.

"Construction of the plant at Zwentendorf, Austria was finished but the plant never entered service. The start-up of the Zwentendorf plant, as well as the construction of the other 2 plants, was prevented by a referendum on 5 November 1978, in which a narrow majority of 50.47% voted against the start-up."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Pl...

> We took methods that had been exploited to improve on previous results for over a decade to their logical extreme, and found that this method no longer leads to improvements.

This actually sounds like a really good review paper! Review papers serve multiple purposes: getting people up to speed on a subject, and putting your own spin on a subject to guide future investigation.

For neutrinos there is no nighttime. The neutrinos are captured when they need to travel the maximum distance through the earth. That way, there are fewer other particles that need to be distinguished from neutrinos.

Are there any laptops with two nubs: one for the mouse, one for scrolling? Then one could also put the keyboard in a more comfortable position right where the touchpad is now.

> Yet another extreme are the professors who endlessly allow exam re-submissions, so students just brute-force hack their way to a passing grade.

I know professors who have changed the answers during the re-submission time, so students brute-force their way to a failing grade...

Isn't .www the obvious choice? ;)

> The most efficient solution is an "all payer rate set system" - aka One price per procedure.

I'd like to hear more about this. According to Wikipedia [1], Maryland uses an "all payer rate set system", and it had one of the first per-capita costs. On the other hand, Germany also has the system, but much lower healthcare costs. What's going on?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-payer_rate_setting

> instructions for backing it up and restoring.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/16/admin_manual/maintenanc...