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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An excruciating series of yearslong local processes to rezone for not enough housing because ABAG set the targets way too low...
More I think about this, it's clear that the state Legislature has decided that rather than significantly increase allowable homebuilding by itself, it will force cities to do it through an excruciating series of 539 individual local yearslong processes
“Be one of the first to try it,” they said. After the... 100 million plus people who have already downloaded it!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I’m spending Thanksgiving indoors with a lot of new people!!!
Because I’ll be working in the ER.
Even then - with PPE and COVID testing - the risk won’t be zero.
If you don’t need to travel, please don’t. There’s just no foolproof way to make holiday family meetups zero-risk.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Let’s be clear: indoor dining is endangering everyone, especially restaurant staff and their families. Do not dine indoors!
My latest: How did San Francisco’s #coronavirus numbers get so much worse so quickly? The city’s contact tracing system isn’t good enough to pinpoint hot spots, but doctors point to indoor gatherings, indoor dining, travel and sloppiness with the rules. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heat…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NYT: Investigations by @NewYorkStateAG & @ManhattanDA expand to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which appear to have gone to Ivanka Trump. w/ @mmcintire, @WRashbaum & @benprotess
nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyreg…
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In the past few days, I've seen a significant increase in the amount of spam that's sent via Google Forms.
I've used the "Report Abuse" UI that Google has... but the form itself is uninteresting; the spam is in the email message that sends it.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Test positivity is not a metric with any universal meaning. It is very sensitive to small shifts in testing.
It crept into policy making months ago - for reasons I’ve yet to understand.
But it really must be interpreted ONLY if you know the denominator characteristics
Test positivity should not be the sole metric for making high consequence decisions about opening or closing businesses or schools.
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Is this the full list?
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1804, 1808)
John Quincy Adams (1824 won, 1828)
Benjamin Harrison (1888 won, 1892)
William Jennings Bryan (1896, 1900)
Thomas Dewey (1944, 1948)
Adlai Stevenson (1952, 1956)
Donald Trump (2016 won, 2020)
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Here's an image of the most interesting markings. There are no markings like these on the other mail from the same sender that arrived promptly. Note that there's a mark from "LOUISVILLE KY 400" on 19 AUG that is overwritten by another "LOUISVILLE KY 400" mark from 28 OCT.
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Yesterday (November 16) my wife received a check in the mail that was sent in mid-August. Other mail from the same sender, both before and after, had arrived promptly.
The extra barcodes on the envelope, some of them crossed out, are somewhat interesting...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SCOOP: Ga. SoS Raffensperger says Sen. Lindsey Graham pressured him to toss legal ballots. wapo.st/3lEogGq
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Well, now it's time to find out what the Purple Tier is like...
(It's about time things are more restricted... although I thought we were expecting Red rather than Purple.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Can’t believe people are debating holidays. Heath care workers are exhausted. So many breaking points. It’s not worth the harm. My father snd uncle died within weeks this summer. I couldn’t get home, we couldn’t grieve together. It was terrible, but everyone is ok. Don’t do this.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Negative results from two types of tests are now required for people flying into China: a test for the virus, and a test for antibodies. Experts are baffled. nyti.ms/3pqymx9
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
An informative thread on the vaccination rate that is needed to end COVID and the historical vaccination rates in US, which are considerably lower than the needed rate. Combined efforts of vaccination and public health non-pharmaceutical interventions are needed
Interim results on Pfizer vaccine are promising
But getting safe doses to those who would benefit most depends on reversing a trend that has defined this pandemic:
to quote Isaac Asimov, “science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom” 1/
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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So this announcement is: "COVID-19 is getting bad here, so we're going to close indoor dining on Tuesday of next week". Why not sooner? Seems like just asking for an extra four days of spread.
BREAKING: Santa Clara and Other Bay Area Counties Move to Contain Spread of COVID-19: sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pag…
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