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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.

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 preve…

You've independently discovered Betteridge's Law of Headlines[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

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 myst…

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

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

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 a…

"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!"

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 s…

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

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 poorl…

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 …

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

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

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 cont…

At a minimum, I'd guess that it goes directly to PG's concept of "submarining"[0]. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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 cer…

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

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: hi…