Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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@littlecalculist Well, one nice thing about PHL airport: they've started putting water bottle filling attachments on the water fountains.
@littlecalculist Um, US Airways has A-West, B, C, and F. I'm guessing you're in B or C?
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@amccreight No, they've been pretty reliably occupied for most of the intervening years.
@tabatkins I think the rates should keep increasing even when well past essentials. It seems like you don't, even with your later replies.
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@sgalineau @tabatkins @hober Could have a graduated consumption tax. Forms like now, deduct savings, add loans. Steeper graduation needed.
@tabatkins ...and a big part of what matters to people is stature relative to others, which reasonable income taxes shouldn't change.
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@tabatkins But money has declining marginal utility beyond essentials.
Downtown Mountain View feels a bit in decline: prime retail spots with closed businesses, like a decade ago.
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So I've been using Unity for a week, and honestly the one thing that might make me go back to GNOME is the clock. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s…
@TedMielczarek That isn't true of any modern programing language?
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@vvuk Would you rather have American ft and Imperial ft be different? (Would make things even more fun in Canada.)
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Does Ubuntu with Unity really not have screensavers anymore? Or did they just not expose the UI to configure them?
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SFO actual rainfall since July 1: 2.87 in. Normal: 10.08 in. Departure from normal: -7.21 in. Forecast: Rain.
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@hsivonen I use the CC NC licenses for photos when I have to pass along a downstream commercial use restriction (e.g., from museums, zoos).
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@SickingJ What exactly does "improved scrolling" mean?
Keeping antibiotics effective in humans: one of the reasons we have government regulation: nytimes.com/2012/01/05/healt…
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@fantasai I think that is better solved by more clearly separating writer/reader (e.g., author/browser) conformance requirements.
@glazou Yes. Tough campaigner. Now either the whole right wing of the party rallies round (with $) or he gets drowned in negative ads.
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