That is vaporware!

I do not think that BN-800 cost more than $200 million...

Yes, let us take the most expensive(*) vehicles on the road and then let some "licensed" New Yorkians attack then from all angles.

(*) By R&D expenses.

I once thought I knew Excel near 100%, all ins and outs... Until I learned about its PowerPivot functionality, so all my previous knowledge was merely 10% of what Excel can do.

The shtoopidest problem I faced was in TransactSQL. Usually, the syntax there is case insensitive, but there is a difference between

• where timeStamp >= format(watermark,'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss') --<-- incorrect
• where timeStamp >= format(watermark,'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss') --<--correct

This bug was extremely elusive for me because the code looks fine and watermark in our data is almost never between 00:00:00 and 01:00:00 and that was when the bug sometimes causes missing data in our target tables.

Not only did I know this but I also forgot.

Actually US has used Facebook and other social media to propagate democratic values before. "Spread social awareness" they called it there. Here we just observe "what you sow" effect.

Or 2/666 furlongs per fortnight. Coincidence? I think not!

The effect is probably on the statistician side. If you keep conducting studies trying to correlate some events with gender, you will get 1 study per 20 that "confirms" with confidence level of 95% that gender has effect on some of the events.

A counter-example

I was referring to use of Inconel-600 in conjunction with SA316 long after the rest of the world switched to Incoloy-800.

Yeah, yeah how mature, blame the Congress... That incident was entirely caused by an engineering oversight. Engineers in US failed to heed expertise of international atomic industry and used alloys that were known to have issues with chemical and radioactive induced corrosion. That change that they were forced to do in 2010s was already implemented in France, Germany and Russia in early 2000s.

This is also a sign of maturity of the Flynn effect, that is when you stop blaming previous generation for all the dumb things they did and start blaming next generation.

This study has just confirmed my own findings that both my teachers in my college and my students now are dumber than me.