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At sfelections.sfgov.org/june-5… . See "Ranked-Choice Voting: Ballot Image" and "(?)" and "Ranked-Choice Voting: Master Lookup".
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I tossed what I have up at github.com/dbaron/sf-electio… ... but I have some plans for what to do next.
(Right now the output is literally to console.log() because I haven't written anything else.)
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But they publish all the ballots!
At this point I have JS code that runs the ranked choice and reproduces (on spot check of numbers) the official table.
Still need to:
* make it produce readable output rather than a JS object
* make it show more data than the official results
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The RCV elimination order looks pretty stable... the closest elimination %-wise is the very last one. (If there were other close ones, that could throw things off in interesting ways... another downside of this counting method!)
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There should also be a pretty substantial pile of vote-by-mail remaining too, though. Do you think those are likely to look more like the vote-by-mail received early, or like the election day voting?
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Please push to reduce zoning restrictions and other obstacles to residential and commercial construction in the Bay Area, and endorse candidates for state office who support that. Urban infill (which is best for the environment) being so hard pushes rents up.
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It seems to me that a cross-browser and standardized format for web packaging would let some of the users of PDF move to using the Web. I think the Web is better for some uses of PDF, except that the ability to save the package for accurate reuse later is a requirement.
the year is 2050. running adobe reader takes up 50% CPU of the most powerful machines available to consumers. the carbon emissions from reading PDFs now exceed motor vehicles. it's still impossible to copy/paste text from a pdf
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I saw a passing mention of an Apple keynote, so I loaded apple.com/ in a tab to see what was up.
2 seconds later I (and others nearby) heard audio from a live presentation.
Wait, video on apple.com works on my browser?
I guess this is progress.
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On the other hand, I heard they're restarting the bus service between Millbrae and SFO that they stopped when BART started.
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At this point, I think Uber Pool is a equally-priced (before tip, anyway), faster, and easier way than BART to get betwen Millbrae Caltrain station and SFO airport.
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But BART to SFO is *lovely* compared to getting to SFO from the south. There's Caltrain plus Quentin Kopp's double-transfer (untimed, of course), with 90 minute headways on weekends. The KX bus from Palo Alto used to be an alternative, but no more.
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I think it may have even made sense when Uber & Lyft were a smaller percentage of the traffic, since arrivals is generally more of a mess because of (a) mistimed meetings and (b) trying to figure out where the other party is, so diverting 25% of arrivals to departures is good.
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That seems like an understatement.
The through-running on many Tokyo subway lines seems like a more powerful version of this. Many regional trains *become* subways and run as normal subways in the subway line, and in some cases become another regional train at the other end.
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@united your website seems confused about the time difference between San Francisco (SFO) and Sydney (SYD), and is showing incorrect "Travel Time" when I view a reservation. It thinks SFO to SYD is one hour longer than it really is, and SYD to SFO an hour shorter.
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But I would argue that "you can't have a California lawyer design form-based legal advice for Californians and then have it distributed by a Canadian company -- you have to have a qualified California lawyer dispense legal advice to every client" is a form of protectionism.
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That feels like a narrow definition of protectionism. Why distinguish between types of barriers to trade for what can qualify as protectionism?
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Better URL for conditional voter registration: sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-r…