bdevine

3 yıl öncediscuss

Ah. It was paywalled and I foolishly assumed it was copy I read earlier about it passing the Assembly with it yet to be sent back to the Senate. That's what I get for assuming.

bdevine

3 yıl öncediscuss

My cynical take is that this will not make it past the Senate, due to Newsom leveraging himself into the discussion behind the scenes. His national political ambitions likely prevent him from taking a public stand on this issue, as he would were it to come to him to be signed.

bdevine

5 yıl öncediscuss

You've independently discovered Betteridge's Law of Headlines[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

bdevine

5 yıl öncediscuss

He's citing year-over-year? Seems to me that for some reason the economy was in the toilet this time last year but it had reason to be an aberration. I don't know, it's a real mystery.

bdevine

6 yıl öncediscuss

You've missed your very best chance ever to lead with "Well, actually"!

bdevine

8 yıl öncediscuss

Summary: mild electrical stimulation of ectomycorrizhal matsutake mushrooms yielded immense gains in both quality and quantity of fruiting bodies.

bdevine

8 yıl öncediscuss

Ok, I have a dumb question about this sort of technology. Aren't these devices essentially just borrowing from tomorrow by capturing moisture that would have eventually collected as clouds? Are there any long-term ramifications to using these?

bdevine

9 yıl öncediscuss

"Turns out the last shower curtain you bought from us isn't working out so great, is it? Well, check out all these top-ranked shower curtains that your search didn't return!"

bdevine

10 yıl öncediscuss

Up voted for this:

"If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it."

It's so universally applicable!

bdevine

10 yıl öncediscuss

Count me in too! Who knew we were so many?

bdevine

10 yıl öncediscuss

From the abstract: "This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho in which one can commit felonies with impunity. This is because of the intersection of a poorly drafted statute with a clear but neglected constitutional provision: the Sixth Amendment's Vicinage Clause."

Mods: The title "The Perfect Crime" seemed insufficiently descriptive, so I took the liberty of augmenting the title.

bdevine

10 yıl öncediscuss

That's great and all, but when you've got multiple goals in multiple domains, something is going to fall to the bottom, or, more likely, right off it. There is only triage and its attendant guilt.

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

"Sir, Thank you very much for the article on hoarding. I've put it with the others."

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

Now I have to spend time deciding between this source or https://xkcd.com/1205/

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

I'm completely unfamiliar with this stuff, but from the article:

"In risk individuals, a thymine (T) is replaced by a cytosine (C) nucleobase, which disrupts repression of the control region and turns on IRX3 and IRX5. This then turns off thermogenesis, leading to lipid accumulation and ultimately obesity... Switching the C to a T in risk individuals turned off IRX3 and IRX5, restored thermogenesis to non-risk levels, and switched off lipid storage genes."

So yes, CC is taken to mean "risk" and CT is likewise "non-risk".

As always, one finding doesn't indicate ultimate truth, so take this all with a grain of salt (or not, depending on what 23andMe has to say about your sodium intake).

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

At a minimum, I'd guess that it goes directly to PG's concept of "submarining"[0].

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

I've felt more or less the same as you and recently I've found Test-Driven Development with Python[0] to be a really nice resource. It is first and foremost a TDD book, which I certainly appreciate, but it takes you through creating an app in a (to my eyes at least) fairly rigorous way. It probably shouldn't serve as an introduction to Django but for someone who has a basic idea of how a project is put together but has never connected those dots, it might be really helpful.

[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920029533.do

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

The mapping was done for the purpose of reproducing the error though. I wouldn't call that a wasted effort.

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

Wallace Stevens is a favorite of mine. His work has been described as "rigorous", which I would agree with. He is an inspiration to me due to his ability to straddle two worlds: his day job was mainly as an insurance executive, but he flowered late and won a Pulitzer for his poetry. I particularly like "The Emperor of Ice Cream":

  Call the roller of big cigars,
  The muscular one, and bid him whip
  In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
  Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
  As they are used to wear, and let the boys
  Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
  Let be be finale of seem.
  The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

  Take from the dresser of deal,
  Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
  On which she embroidered fantails once
  And spread it so as to cover her face.
  If her horny feet protrude, they come
  To show how cold she is, and dumb.
  Let the lamp affix its beam.
  The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

bdevine

11 yıl öncediscuss

It's not clear from the article that that's a smoking gun. Just prior to that point, we see:

"Elevated levels of radon and carbon monoxide were detected but later ruled out as a cause.", with a link to a Russian page that, Google Translated, seems to actually indicate that CO is still a leading suspect. However, the article immediately goes on to apparently quote from the same Russian page that

"...some of houses (sic) of the affected residents had carbon monoxide levels that were ten times higher than recommended. This... could have caused similar symptoms to the “sleeping sickness”."

So the article itself seems a little sloppy. Beyond that, I wonder what the sickness relationship is between high-CO houses and all inhabitants of them, given that at least one inhabitant per house has experienced the sickness. Is there a correlation? Also, is the social structure of the village such that there are frequent visitations to most or every home? If so, then one might expect to experience the sickness even if one's own house doesn't have high CO.

Submissions

Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)

Artificial lightning strikes encourage growth of shiitake mushrooms (2020)

Lightning, Gods, and Mushrooms (2013)

After trademark lapses, N.D. bar owner claims geographic center of North America

The Perfect Crime, or how to get away with murder in Idaho

The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets

Why Does Absinthe Get Cloudy?

Innovative solar-powered toilet ready for India unveiling

The Lost Boys of California

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