Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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There's a bunch we could do to fix printing in browsers. But there's also a tension when we do this. Some people see the goal of browser printing being to reflect the on-screen web page as accurately as possible (e.g., slice the float in half), ...
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I think there are different use cases for PDF on the Web:
* some people use it because they want to offer something as a saveable package (e.g., a bank statement) for archival
* some people care about the particular print layout
* maybe others
I think the first is likely bigger.
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The problems of electoral districts can be mostly eliminated, while keeping their advantages, by using a mixed-member proportional system, like New Zealand or Germany.
That reminds me: it's worth looking up in cities' zoning codes what the minimum required parking is for a bar.
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Increased opportunity for corruption is also one of the reasons I'm likely to vote against split roll:
Commercial or industrial property that's zoned for residential use seems to get an exception. This would give an edge to properties nonconformant to (later) zoning. I also worry it creates an opportunity for corruption by pushing to change zoning to residential.
I'm a big fan of the "too much discretion is bad": for rule of law & predictability of government decisions, for reducing corruption, and for simplifying interaction with government.
See also: making tons of things crimes so prosecutors can always charge you with something.
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Photos from my trip to Tokyo (for the @w3ctag meeting) at the start of February: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/set…
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
Nezu 2-chōme, Tōkyō-to 113-0031, Japan (border of 10-ban/12-ban)
日本〒113-0031 東京都文京区根津根津２丁目 (10番/12番)
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I think many of the changes Shill proposes would be doable, and would start leading to gradual shifts in preferences and policy.
I also think many people in the younger generation want to live in a less car-centric way, but they're prevented from doing so by zoning...
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More related, I calculated (using not quite comparable data, but still probably the right order of magnitude) that the chance of dying on a 737 MAX flight is the same as the chance of dying when driving 320 miles in the US. For that, we grounded the 737 MAX...
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
Shibadaimon 2-Chōme, Minato-ku, Tōkyō-to, 〒105-0012 Japan (border of 1-ban/2-ban)
日本〒105-0012 東京都港区芝大門２丁目 (1番/2番)
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That Brattle & Church location was once a grocery (when I was a freshman in '98-'99); I think it closed around 1999 or 2000 to be replaced by a cellphone store.
I guess they never bugged me nearly as much as say, cars in driveways in the Sunset district of San Francisco blocking the sidewalks...
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
rue du Maréchal Joffre & rue Grimaldi, 06000 Nice, France
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