Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Thrilled to share "Regulating the Pedestrian Safety Crisis," just published
The motivation was simple: ped deaths are up 50%+ since 2010, but @NHTSAgov is the only responsible agency that has failed even to notionally prioritize pedestrian safety. Short 🧵ssrn.com/abstract=4176597
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
What a great summary of the debate on social discount rates (SDRs), from Milner and Heal:
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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The Australia figure in this map surprises me, given the coffee-drinking Australians I know.
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I think the proper opening of the Central Subway should be counted as what's expected to happen in January, not what's happening this weekend.
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Trying to assess who got this question right while Twitter is still up.
Daxing & Brandenburg airports are clearly operating.
Does Crossrail count as open on 6 November 2022? It's not clear to me what isn't operating that is expected to happen next May.
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It's OPEN! #SilverLine
First train leaving @Dulles_Airport with event attendees toward Loudon Gateway. Look 👀 at that great @Dulles_Airport architecture. #wmata #ridesilver #yourmetro
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Nancy Pelosi is 82. She just led House Democrats to an unexpectedly good midterms outcome. Media’s first question is when she’ll retire.
Mitch McConnell is 80. He just led Senate Republicans to a humiliating defeat. Not one question about when he’ll step aside.
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Got to see the end of the lunar eclipse just a few minutes before sunrise.
(low quality photo, I know)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
LWX issues Record Event Report (RER) at Nov 5, 5:29 PM EDT ...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT WASHINGTON DULLES DC... mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The other important note on the exit-polls is that if Balad has failed to cross the threshold, costing the anti-Bibi bloc 2 seats, it will be clear that if the Joint List had managed to stick together, Bibi would not have won a majority (and if Balad does a bit better, he won’t)>
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Lula's win not only preserves democracy in Brazil, it is also an *enormous* win for climate. What happens to Brazil's rainforest has carbon consequences that dwarf most of what passes for climate policy in the west. reuters.com/world/americas/l…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There r crazies across the political spectrum who can become violent. But we have to be honest & recognize that these incidents are overwhelmingly on the right because incitement to violence is pervasive in GOP messaging and tolerated and embraced by GOP officeholders and media.
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It seems unlikely to be an accident that they're measuring the length of Japan using an island (Etorofu/Iturup) that has been controlled by the Soviet Union and Russia since 1945 but is still claimed by Japan.
For those who find it difficult to imagine the entire length of the front line of the rus-Ukraine war, this is:
distance from Barcelona to Warsaw;
almost the entire length of the US border with Mexico;
distance from Etorofu to Nagasaki in Japan;
distance from moscow to The Hague.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Driving is so routinized that people have no idea how dangerous it actually is, so I did a little math to provide some much-needed perspective.
If air travel had the same fatality rate as driving, approximately 47 commercial flights would've crashed in 2019 with no survivors.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Current wait times at embassies for a visitor visa to the US:
857 days — Bogota
850 days — Abuja
848 days — Mumbai
833 days — New Delhi
800 days — Guadalajara
780 days — Chennai
771 days — Panama City
767 days — Kolkata
737 days — Lagos
731 days — Kinshasha
722 days — Nogales
This visa issue with India is an absurdity. Imagine going to get a tourist visa in New Delhi and being told the next available appointment is in 2025. Unacceptable. We need to do better.
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Ah, the way @NWS_BaltWash obliquely says "well, maybe the remnants of that hurricane are coming this way", and if they do, we're going to get some rain
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
From any reasonable scientific, medical or public health view
This policy of relegating unvaccinated ppl (the very ppl you MOST want to get a vax today) to an outdated vaccine...
Is simply unscientific, goes against any reasonable COVID response goals and is, frankly, cruel
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There's reading cursive... and then there's doing genealogy research and finding records that are written in Russian cursive on the left page and Hebrew on the right page. (I'd have substantially less trouble with upright Russian than with either.)
In my dotage, I somehow assumed that students who don’t learn cursive would still be able to read it. This, from Drew Gilpin Faust, is mind-blowing. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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