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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When you see something like this (940 and 960 High Street, Palo Alto, CA):
- 8 minutes walk from Palo Alto Caltrain, or from University Avenue in the center of downtown
- zoned for 35 foot high residential construction (RT-35)
- in a location that has had high rents for years
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Software folks: remember what continuous integration was like before atomic commits? How you could get a build failure or test failure because it pulled the tree "mid-checkin"?
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United States Cabinet members or Biden nominees (so far) born in or after 1970:
Anthony Foxx (April 1971)
Kirstjen Nielsen (May 1972)
Julián Castro (September 1974)
Miguel Cardona (July 1975)
Chad Wolf (1976)
Pete Buttigieg (January 1982)
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The last _Democratic_ Senator from Southern California was John V. Tunney, who was elected to a single 6-year term in 1970.
* I count Barbara Boxer as being _from_ Northern California, although she moved to Southern California during her third term (of four) in the Senate.
It's almost like we'd forgotten that California's senators are allowed to be from Southern California.😉
Congrats to @AlexPadilla4CA.
His appointment will make history. But the @AlexPadilla4CA I know is far more interested in changing history -- especially for the working men and women of our state and country.
I can think of no one better to represent the state of California as our next United States Senator.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: Trump's post-election incitement "is promoting terrorism" against Americans, national security experts warn. For four years Trump has denied and downplayed his pandering to violent far-right extremists—but he knows exactly what he's doing motherjones.com/politics/202…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The US public is sick, our leaders distracted, and we are under cyberattack. This isn’t about SolarWinds anymore. It hasn’t been for months. The Russians are in our networks at a very fragile time. What are we going to do about it? My @nytimes OpEd nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opini…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Two hundred years ago, a purported opening of the heavens in upstate New York launched one of the most peculiar and enduring religious movements in American history—one that I belong to.
On faith, identity, and what the Mormon story says about America: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
🚨I wrote the Atlantic’s next cover story on the COVIDization of science. No other disease has been scrutinized so intensely, by so much combined intellect, in so brief a time. This piece is about both the victories achieved & the weaknesses exposed. 1/
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I think it looks like the Electoral College's partisan bias in the 2020 Presidential election is the largest bias since 1936.
The data for this calculation is at dbaron.org/presidential-elec… . (Let me know if there's an error!)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
White House officials reportedly hustling to get immediate Covid-19 vaccines are like crew members whose bad judgment helped cause the ship to sink who are now oafishly elbowing their way to be first on the lifeboats.
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I somehow find misspellings in reputable publications very distracting; this article in @TheEconomist has António Guterres's name 4 times, and it's wrong the first 3 times. (In the print version, with two t's and one r, online with two of each!) economist.com/briefing/2020/…
This is a reasonably predictable consequence of re-electing an 85-year-old (in 2018) to another 6 year term in the United States Senate.
(I voted for @kdeleon, and that's a big part of why. But his campaign didn't seem to have enough money to make him known statewide.)
Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats newyorker.com/news/news-desk… via @NewYorker
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The geographic size of the Bay Area's lack of affordability doesn't get enough context. Example: San Francisco to San Jose, 48mi (77km). Both cities are about as expensive, and so is most everything in-between.
*Driving distance but it's approximate enough. (1/8)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I wrote a post for @insight explaining the details of this amazing restaurant study, comparing it to other similar studies, and discuss what we can learn from all this about both indoor dining and airborne transmission. It’s empowering! zeynep.substack.com/p/small-…
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A photo of an urban environment I like [33/N]:
Xiǎoběi Street, Yìngchéng City, Xiàogǎn City, Húběi, China
中国湖北省孝感市应城市小北街
December 2018
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