Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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Seems like @united hasn't learned from the last few incidents.
An airline tried to get a musician to check her 17th-century violin. A "wrestling match" ensued. wapo.st/2s69SyI
They imply removing many government abilities to be involved in the economy (macro, tax enforcement) and in economic crime (theft, fraud).
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I think a number of characteristics of many cryptocurrencies (e.g., irreversible, anonymous) are very tied to libertarian values.
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But aren't libertarian ideas at the core of it? It's about making many functions of government impossible. dbaron.org/log/20160322-secu… related.
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May may wish she called a May election.
'Yes, the surge is real.' Here's what political experts tell us about Jeremy Corbyn's rising polling on.ft.com/2qPge1m
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A college friend (from 1998-99 academic year) who spent a few years living there (early or mid 90's?) said he lived "in Saudi", etc.
They still occasionally give out certificates. This was for flying on the first 787 to fly TSA-HND. Not as interesting as the old ones.
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A big earthquake won't make California fall into the ocean. Buildings can be built to withstand it. (See Tokyo in the Sendai quake.)
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California falling into the ocean is way way after London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Kolkata & Mumbai are destroyed by sea level rise
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(That is, the difference in climate control use is bigger than the difference in transport use. Not sure about the totals.)
Heating & cooling are a big deal. IIRC, average personal energy use is lower in LA metro than NYC metro, b/c climate control > transport.
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There's plenty of demand for such housing. Keep building it until environmentally-friendly housing is cheaper than other housing.
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Even better: do this primarily in areas with low heating and cooling costs (such as coastal California).
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To support the Paris agreement: advocate, locally, for housing dense enough to support transit good enough for the rich to not want cars.
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Though that of course assumes that distributional effects of taxation are appropriate today, which I don't think they are.
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Other taxes can be reduced to balance the increased income from pollution taxes, in a way that keeps the poor no worse off, hopefully better
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