Soon introducing “Math 555” a class to talk about one’s feelings about Math 55. It’s all fun and games until “New Math 55” class graduates end up working for Boeing designing the next 737 MAX something or other …
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I wonder what non ethical non-monogamy is?
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MR post Get Out of Jail Cards, 2 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Went looking on ebay, and lo and behold, you too can get ahold of “
100% Authentic Signed 2024 NYPD PBA Card - Your Ticket to Safety and Security in the Tri-State Area! ”
Not a good sign…
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Obligatory book of knowledge reference Betavoltaic device - Wikipedia
Proposals
The primary use for betavoltaics is for remote and long-term use, such as spacecraft requiring electrical power for a decade or two. Recent progress has prompted some to suggest using betavoltaics to trickle-charge conventional batteries in consumer devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers.[6][unreliable source?] As early as 1973, betavoltaics were suggested for use in long-term medical devices such as pacemakers.[4]
In 2018 a Russian design based on 2-micron thick nickel-63 slabs sandwiched between 10 micron diamond layers was introduced. It produced a power output of about 1 μW at a power density of 10 μW/cm3. Its energy density was 3.3 kWh/kg. The half-life of nickel-63 is 100 years.[7][8][9]
A paper in 2019 work has indicated the viability of betavoltaic devices in high-temperature environments in excess of 733 K (460 °C; 860 °F) like the surface of Venus.[10]
A prototype betavoltaic battery announced in early 2024 by the Betavolt company of China contains a thin wafer providing a source of beta particle electrons (either Carbon-14 or nickel-63) sandwiched between two thin crystallographic diamond semiconductor layers.[11][12] The Chinese startup claims to have the miniature device in the pilot testing stage.[13] Unveiled in January 2024, it is allegedly generating 100 microwatts of power and a voltage of 3V and has a lifetime of 50 years without any need for charging or maintenance.[13] Betavolt claims it to be the first such miniaturised device ever developed.[13] It gains its energy from 63 nuclear isotopes located in a module the size of a very small coin.[13] Once the decay period has passed, the isotopes turn into stable, non-radioactive isotopes of copper, which pose no environmental threat.[13]
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Eat the rich? It won’t even pay the interest.
Billionaires’ net worth is famously volatile. Here is Forbes’ “Real-Time Billionaires List”.
Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are updated every 5 minutes when respective stock markets are open (there will be a 15-minute delay for stock prices). Individuals whose fortunes are significantly tied to private companies will have their net worths updated once a day. In cases where an individual owns a stake in a private company that accounts for 20% or more of his or her net worth, the value of the company will be adjusted according to an industry- or region-specific market index provided by our partners at FactSet Research Systems when available. A rotating cast of the five biggest winners and losers throughout the day is featured at the top of the page, followed by the complete list of billionaires ranked in order of net worth.
The U.S. Debt Clock shows U.S. budget numbers in real time, including interest on the debt and balance of trade.
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“High-speed rail—that’s the answer!”
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On this note, there’s a new book out:
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The report in which this code is cited is, “ICL Pathway—Report on EPOSS PinICL Task Force” [PDF].
Here is background on the British Post Office Horizon scandal.
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Anyone here not file an amicus brief in Trump v. Anderson?
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Try copying and pasting link rather than clicking:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-719.html
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This is very strange. The link also fails to go to the right place if attached explicitly to text, which generates HTML like:
Does this
<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-719.html">work
as a link</a>?
And yet, if you paste that exact URL into a browser address bar, it goes to the search page for the docket. This works even with the rudimentary text-only Lynx browser.
An “aspx” URL is a Microsoft invention, part of their “ASP.NET” (“Active Server Pages”), created as part of their “embrace, extend, exterminate” strategy toward the Internet when it was released in 2002. This only works with proprietary Microsoft Web server software (“Internet Information Services”). My guess is that, being a Microsoft product, it is a pile of garbage and somehow gets befuddled when the URL comes from a link within a page rather than directly from a browser. There is nothing Discourse can do to make this work since the problem is clearly on the server side.
It is delightful that the U.S. Supreme Court is running a Web server which is the all time champion for security holes and non-compliance with standards.
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“Trust the experts, serf. Why would we lie to you?”
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Alas, hit paywall.
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Hmmm…I didn’t when I looked up the article. I have replaced the direct link in comment #3375 with a link through archive.is, so it should now work.
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alas, got dns site cannot be reached.
Tant pis, I’ll live.
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Reagan Airport … “first amendment rights” … to block public highways.
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