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Have I ever told you the story about how the more pedantic students of US history insist that the name of the 33rd US president be written "Harry S Truman", without a . after the S ... ?
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I haven't tried... although I'd guess the main potential problem would be if it needed long resting time after forming the loaf, although even that isn't a problem as long as I don't mind the bread being a bit flat.
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One other thing that might affect density is quantity of salt. (Different physical forms of salt,e.g., small/large crystals, are different density, so dealing with recipes that measure salt by volume requires care.) Salt suppresses yeast activity and makes bread denser... [1/2]
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On the other hand,
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@GavinNewsom is committed to the full vision for high speed rail, including connecting SF <> LA. His comments today were unclear, but have since been clarified.
Any chance of speeding this up so that, say, the next Bay Area RHNA cycle could have a larger opportunity to contribute to Governor Newsom's goal of 3.5 million new housing units by 2025?
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I guess I'm saying I suspect people have the intuition that refugee admissions correlate with racial tolerance even if data don't back that up.
Perhaps people who have seen stats on refugee admissions per capita? But willingness to let people in doesn't correlate perfectly with treatment once they're there...
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I'd note that back then, substantially more scrollbars had buttons at the ends than do today... and you really don't want to clip the buttons.
And it looks like I implemented that in bugzil.la/459144 and the relevant spec prose is in drafts.csswg.org/css-backgro… ("If the curve interferes with UI elements such as scrollbars, ...")
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Try population or GDP... and don't bother splitting Australia.
Population:
1. California (39.6m)
2. Texas (28.7m)
3. Australia (25.2m)
4. Florida (21.3m)
5. New York (19.5m)
GDP:
1. California ($2.7t)
2. Texas ($1.7t)
3. New York ($1.54t)
4. Australia ($1.5t)
5. Florida ($967b)
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But I think it's largely progress -- modulo the risk that it pushes more development to ECR which is more car-dependent than the downtown area. (Not unlike Mountain View and Los Altos...)
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I wish it were offering bigger changes for downtown and cal ave, i.e., more height, a lot more FAR, and avoiding the requirements that force underground parking (esp. for small buildings).
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My guess would be that the most significant change in this package will be to encourage substantially more and larger development along El Camino. I haven't actually vetted that guess by asking developers what they think, though.
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It's not clear (and I think many are pessimistic) whether the changes for downtown and cal ave mixed use areas are significant enough to encourage development of residential rather than commercial in those areas. Parking still makes that hard, & FAR still way less than I'd want.
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The units/acre number does matter a bit, to discourage buildings w/ lots of tiny units (such as Wilton Court, paloaltoonline.com/news/2019… ). Lifting it makes small units more plausible in downtown / cal ave / ECR (but not RM districts). Not sure if the market will build that in PA.
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I think the most constraining factor in Palo Alto's multifamily and mixed-use zones is generally FAR. The building envelope limits don't matter much, and the FAR increases in this package could be important. [1/N]
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... yields a relatively standard average unit size (depending on which multifamily zone it is, something in the range from normal-ish 1BR or small 2BR, to 3BR/4BR, although the largest is about to shift smaller in zoning changes (RM-15 → RM-20) currently under discussion).