Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Earliest appearance seems to be the May 1996 working draft of CSS1: w3.org/TR/WD-css1-960505.htm…
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Yeah, agreed, it's in the category of words that have become a lot more common in the last 10 or 20 years because it's gender-neutral. Probably more common in some places than others (e.g., maybe mostly US).
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It was more the reason that I put musical symbol characters (𝄞, 𝄢, and 𝄂, which are non-BMP) in my email signature.
Emoji have certainly helped make western developers care about things not mangling non-ASCII characters, though.
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Per passenger isn't a great way to split things up when international business and first take up so much more floor space than coach. Would be interesting to see the numbers for all-economy layouts...
Is the Urban/Suburban/Exurban/Rural weighted by population?
If not, then, for example, a state with 4 congressional districts of 700K people, 3 with 700 mi² (density 1000/mi², suburban), and 1 with 14,000 mi² (density 50/mi², rural) would count as density 174/mi² (exurban).
Looks like the firmware update that I got *today* called "Surface - Firmware - 2/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - 105.0.94.5" finally fixed this.
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So when the winds stop, how do they tell which ones are safe to turn back on? Or is a downed power line that's not being blown around less of a fire risk?
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Ah, indeed, that's what the discussion says.
I'd been thinking they would have had one in Vince (2005), but I guess it wasn't quite close enough and was clearly not headed towards Madeira.
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I don't think tropical storm warnings for Madeira happen often.
#Leslie is the tropical cyclone that's been wandering around the Atlantic for weeks. Track forecasts for the last few days have been unclear, leading to interesting quotes from the forecasters who had to make them.
A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Madeira Island (north of the Canary Islands) in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean due to #Leslie. Tropical-storm-force winds are expected early Saturday morning. Full advisory: hurricanes.gov
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Increasing the number doesn't require a constitutional amendment; term limits would. So increasing the number is much more realistic. (I recommend 13.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_… has a bunch of history. (Having the monarch (threaten/offer) to help out in 1910-1911 seems to have been important, and something that won't work here.)
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I was thinking more like the sort of crisis that leads all the Democrats to resign en masse to make it clear that the current system isn't a fair democracy, setting clear conditions for what would allow them to resume participation.
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There's quite an air quality gradient in the south bay right now (screenshot of purpleair.com/map#9/37.4147/…).
Noticing increased smoke in the East Bay? There is currently a fire in Solano County. GOES East satellite imagery shows smoke being carried by northeasterly winds.
#cawx
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Senate reform is disallowed by Article V.
I don't think a convention under the existing framework makes sense. It requires a convention, separated from the framework for amending the current constitution, after a major constitutional crisis.
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But at least it doesn't tax businesses in San Francisco on goods they ship to outside the city or services they provide to those outside the city.
It differs from a sales tax by:
* having different rates for different industries (weird!)
* applying to things like rent that a sales tax doesn't
* having graduated rates (does that make sense for businesses?)
* being imposed on the business (not part of the price)
* maybe more?
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But I ended up being pleasantly surprised when I dug into it. The law is in library.amlegal.com/nxt/gate…, and the gist is that it works a lot like a sales tax; it taxes (see section 956.1) services performed in the city or goods shipped to the city.
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