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
In new research, @_wesjenks & I compare trends in traffic fatalities in the US & France. The comparison isn't good.
Had the US per-capita traffic death rate equaled that of France since 1994, the US would have had 387,000 fewer deaths by 2021. 🧵
urban.org/urban-wire/us-traf…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In 2009, a disastrous project on Sepulveda Pass revealed the roadblocks that stop the U.S. from being able to build.
Today from @bbalkus
palladiummag.com/2022/06/09/…
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Now that I've lived here for 10 months, it appears to be time to understand what's going on in local politics.
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I'm ordering takeout from a restaurant website (via @clovercommerce). I finish the order, enter my credit card number, and then...
(I've never had a CAPTCHA show up right after hitting a "Place order" or "Buy now" button before.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Understanding what is behind the painfully high CPI inflation is key to understanding where it is headed and when. This table should help with this. The Russian invasion and spike in oil and other commodity prices is the #1 reason, followed by the pandemic & the housing shortage.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Throughout the epidemic, there have been efforts to make this about personal responsibility—started w masking/distancing—> get vaxx —> ‘you do you’
While we were left to solve an epidemic as individuals, where were the efforts at improving systems, such as upgrading ventilation?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
(Fun genre of building/zoning rules: conditions Europeans find so awful that they are banned, but which US regulators are so unconcerned with that they write other rules making them mandatory. I wouldn't go so far as to ban [some of] these, but they should at least be allowed!)
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If you purchased fresh strawberries between March 5 and April 25, they probably aren't good anymore and haven't been for quite a few weeks.
(Maybe the US should have a competent food safety authority other than the Minnesota state health department?)
“Consumers, restaurants, and retailers should not sell, serve, or eat any fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo or HEB if purchased between March 5, 2022, and April 25, 2022,” the FDA wrote in a statement published Saturday.
wapo.st/3z8ybOe
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
“I can’t change or condemn the current situation in China. And if you can’t change it, all you can do is run.”
@fu_claire, @jotted and I look at how China's strict Covid controls, dragging into their third year, have some Chinese looking to the exits. nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Now that Moderna has submitted all pediatric data to @US_FDA, we urge an immediate, transparent and thorough review. Families of children under 5 have waited a long time for the reassurance of a safe and effective vaccine.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is a good example of how accurate, factual information can sometimes mislead people who lack the right framework for understanding it.
There is a serious heatwave in India & Pakistan, but the depicted land surface temperatures can be 10°C (18°F) or more hotter than the air.
Land temps of 62°C - frightening killing heat wave. We are doing this, + refusing to stop. Horrific.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The environmental movement of the last generation was partly organized around stopping things. But to save the planet we are going to have to build things at an unprecedented speed and scale. We need to make it easier, not harder, to build big, planet saving projects.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Friend with kid at Beijing school...
One child tested positive in kid's class, so the whole class was bussed to a hotel for quarantine. No parents allowed. Teacher went along as quarantinee and chaperone.
Rest of school ordered home. To their delight, no online classes so far.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The efficiency gains from having the I.R.S. do people's taxes for them would be comparable to a major trade agreement like NAFTA or TPP, but there is very little interest in political circles.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In the current U.S. patent system, “not only is legal trickery rewarded and the public’s interest overlooked, but also innovation — the very thing that patents were meant to foster — is undermined,” writes the editorial board. nyti.ms/3uMo5Qs
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California does it right.
Maryland income taxes for part-year residents go to great trouble to correctly prorate standard or itemized deductions, exemption credits, and the earned income credit, by the portion of income from each state. But they don't correctly prorate the progressive tax rate structure!
Maryland income taxes for part-year residents go to great trouble to correctly prorate standard or itemized deductions, exemption credits, and the earned income credit, by the portion of income from each state. But they don't correctly prorate the progressive tax rate structure!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
@California_HCD should nix this plan unless SF:
(1) backs up its "pipeline" & "mayor's office" projections w/ public data, &
2) commits to ministerial review + waiver of fees/exactions/standards that render projects economically infeasible until city reaches RHNA target.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For the second pandemic anniversary, I wrote a plausible what-if.
What if the world reacted quickly to the available information, like Taiwan or South Korea did?
Lancet calculates ~18 million lives lost to Covid. Many, maybe all, could have been spared.
nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opini…
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