They probably contracted the building of the station to the lowest bidder - and it wasn't in the initial specs.

Interesting! I'll bookmark this, in case I ever have another validated development process.

I hate videos. Most are badly done, and take ages to get to the point or to the information I need. Sometimes they're good, but that's a rare exception and certainly not the rule. At least with bad documentation, I don't waste as much time.

Yeah, I got the same complaint when writing specs and documentation for a validated system in a pharmaceutical company. Apparently, it's a validation thing.

I think you're right, but I'm still mad that literate programming never took off. Ilike writing down my thoughts, and then slowly expanding that into a program. Ah well, information analysis and modelling allow me to do that too. But if we had programming tools that could do that, it would lead to much better documentation and likely much better code as well.

Wow. That is certainly the first time I've ever seen someone describing Mad Max as "socialist". Oh, us poor men, to be duped by explosions and pretty women into watching communist propaganda! Before you know it, we'll sing the International, while embracing our inner female. Shortly after that, the USA will fall to North Korea and we're all going to be enslaved in the uranium mines...

Well, this certainly made my day! Thank you ;)

Of course they won't. Even Stalin and Mao never sold their mass murders as anything other than "War on {criminal flavor of the day}".

sayeth Anonymous Coward.

The Chinese students were probably smart enough to do it from outside the USA's jurisdiction...

Part of the qualification was their cost. I bet they failed that one.

Cost of a crown on top of an implant in The Netherlands, without insurance (so yes, you can come over here and get it, just add some money for flight and hotel): between 1900 and 2500 euro. In total. So for four dental implants WITH CROWN your mother would spend at most 10.000 euro, if she was uninsured. I'm pretty sure this can be negotiated down a bit if she wants four, or a bit higher if she has health issues.

(source: http://www.implantaat.nl/koste...)

In Blegium, it's cheaper (and just as good): http://www.kaakchirurgie-anna....
Yes, that's that's about 2000 euro for 4 implants...

I think you might want to show those prices to your mother's dentist and ask him to reconsider his pricing. Failing that, I'm pretty sure you can get a nice Euro-trip and implants for around 5000 euro total.

I assume this is to prevent a leaking main from electrocuting everyone in the area, and/or to prevent gasses building up underneath and/or to have better airflow around the battery to keep the temperature from going up in hotspots.

In Germany, companies that accept energy during peak supply actually *get paid* to use energy. Those batteries will not just break even, they're going to be a major money maker even in the first year.

I agree. It's more false consciousness than cognitive dissonance.

48kWh... must be a house in the US. ... In The Netherlands, the average electricity use for a family of 2,2 persons is about 3500 kWh/year, or about 9,6 kWh per day. That's around 20% of the energy use of an average house in the US.

Perhaps in the US you don't need batteries or solar energy as much as you need decent insulation.