Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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It's good to see Sydney fixing their beg buttons. As a visitor, it was a bad characteristic of a city I otherwise quite like.
Too bad it took COVID-19 to do this. (In the long term they should just get rid of the buttons entirely, rather than just making them useless.)
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Also (again not SARS-CoV-2, but some animal coronaviruses) note the temperature-dependence found in ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… (note some graphs use hours and some use days).
Basically, degrades faster on surfaces when warmer.
I think this is why some hope R drops when warmer.
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See, when you point a software engineer at the constitution...
So what happens if a state structures its legislature as two chambers with the *same* number of legislators, but where one of the chambers had voting age of 14?
(never mind variable-size chambers from MMP)
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I think she was born abroad as a US citizen due to having a US citizen parent, just like Ted Cruz. I think consensus is that they're both eligible, although I don't think it's been tested in court.
When we get to that point, we'll also likely need to accept that anyone who tests positive doesn't get to quarantine-at-home, but instead heads to a quarantine hotel until they're no longer infectious. (Otherwise there's too much spread within families, etc.)
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My intuition is that of the places I've been multiple times, it's highest in Japan (where I think it's an expectation), and probably next highest in New Zealand.
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A travel-related question I was thinking about now that I can't travel...
How does the chance that a randomly chosen hotel has laundry facilities (washer/dryer/detergent) that guests can use vary between countries?
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That was certainly what nitter.vloup.ch/XihongLin/status… suggests.
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
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You should talk to @khuey_ about the correct type of macarons (and flavors he's discovered you can put in them).
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Palo Alto Whole Foods was quiet-ish around 10:45-11am today. Most of the canned beans / rice / pasta was sold out, though they were restocking the more-expensive De Cecco pastas while we were there, so those were mostly well-stocked. Meat/fish/fruit/veg all seemed normal.
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Oh, and also, a good thread from a law professor (who you should follow if you're interested in fixing patent law!):
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And to be blunt, this seems like the sort of @GavinNewsom blunder that @JerryBrownGov would not have made. Too much "looking presidential" and too little acting presidential, or competent, or getting things done.
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Seems like I'm not alone with this concern (see both this tweet and the thread nested within it):
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But the actual statewide order at covid19.ca.gov/img/N-33-20.p… (which references the overly-broad cisa.gov/critical-infrastruc… for the list of critical businesses) seems very different from the 6-county order at sccgov.org/sites/phd/Disease… which appears much more carefully written.
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sfchronicle.com/politics/art… says:
"The order is similar to the shelter-in-place rules that Bay Area residents have been living under since Monday, allowing people to visit the grocery store, seek medical care, walk outside and exercise if they maintain social distance from others"
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While @sfchronicle says @GavinNewsom's statewide order is the same as the 6-county Bay Area order, the order looks like it exempts more businesses (from the information technology sector to casinos to motion picture studios) and less personal activity (jogging, dog walking)?
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China's numbers were from testing that was good enough to eliminate the disease through quarantine, so they're at least close, at least outside Wuhan.