According to this sign, he is the ssecretary of war.

The data would compress well, true. However, the DNA in the cell doesn’t have anything like data compression, and it makes the calculations more complex, so it’s only fair to compare uncompressed sizes.

The full genome is 3.1 billion base pairs (6.2 Gbit = 775 MByte). Each parent (i.e., one egg or one sperm) contributes half of that, 1.55 billion base pairs (3.1 Gbit = 388 MByte).

Each base-pair requires two bits, not four. Picking an arbitrary convention: 00 = A, 01 = T, 10 = G, 11 = C.

This calculation is off by an order of magnitude.

The human genome has about 3.1 billion base pairs. Each sperm has half of that. Ignoring epigenetics, each base pair has four options (A/T/C/G), so it can be represented by two bits each.

All told, that’s 3.1 gigabits = 388 megabytes per gamete.

There’s still a few days left to file comments objecting to the change. Link in the article.

Remember when Republicans shut down the government for 43 days, specifically to prevent Democrats from saving these subsidies? And then the Democrats caved for no reason and got nothing? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

I will continue to blame party leadership until they kick the traitorous assholes out of the party entirely.

This strategy was pioneered by Key and Peele.

Except they’re still getting paid. They’re apparently “essential”, but food stamps and air traffic control aren’t.

The extra a’s make it so much better. 😹

California is fast-tracking up to $80 million in state funds… SNAP food benefits for 5.5 million Californians.

It’s a good start, but is $14.55 per hungry person really going to make a difference?

Digital Camera Images, Man.

Relevant project from Print, Shoot, Repeat: the Glong.

https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

Relevant Mitchell and Webb comedy sketch.

As Agent Smith said of '90s New South Wales, “the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization”.

California did file a lawsuit, and won, though the ruling came too late to do much good.

Here’s an NPR article and Newsom’s press release on the outcome.