Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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Perhaps it would help to suggest what other review you think is needed in some way other than subtweeting about it?
Perhaps we were going to solicit additional review when we publish a checkpoint of the document, which we were about to do once one more set of edits happens?
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I never said or assumed that they were equivalent.
It can be more useful to request review from a small number of people who look at something closely than from a large number of people who assume somebody else is reviewing the details but (together) are more likely to bikeshed.
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Sometimes they/we didn't because it was an experiment that didn't work out, but that nobody ever bothered to remove. And some browsers had larger markets for single-engine content that they cared about sometimes. But there was still a broad push for interop, though uneven.
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Though I think the bigger picture was that, at the time, all the browser makers saw that shipping something interoperably across all browsers was a much bigger win than shipping it in one browser. So all were willing to do what it took to get that. Much less true today.
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That was the recommended practice by the CSSWG at the time. (Today it would be feature flags or other mechanisms that keep things off by default for release channel users.) They also followed -webkit-prefixed versions.
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Hmmm, I was at least misremembering the source, since it's not in papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… where I thought I might have read it. Hopefully not the substance, but sometimes I remember things wrong (or the source might not have been that reliable).
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I read something (I think in @greg_shill's writing) about how driving tests and licensing were created to make it *look* like drivers were trained so that it looked like it made sense to give them less liability/responsibility for the harm they cause.
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For example (numbers need tuning!), set the gas tax each week to the larger of:
- the tax that makes the post-tax price its 50th percentile over the past 5 years
- the smaller of (a) 50th percentile tax *amount* (not %) over the past 5 years or (b) relevant externalities
I'd love to see a tax on carbon-based fuels structured to auto-rachet up when oil/gas prices dip. This would let us gradually ease in increasing the prices to account for the negative externalities that we should be including in the price.
A gas tax makes sense with the dip in oil prices and Berkeley should put one up on the ballot.
A rideshare tax is pointless on an industry that's on the verge of total collapse right now. A gas tax is a secure revenue source and is in line with our climate and transpo. goals
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Must be that somebody thinks you can put bell pepper in a cheesesteak. 😜
I had a similar reaction to March 2020 in H-Mart's calendar, though:
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The 2000 presidential election in Florida, from the butterfly ballot to 5-4 SCOTUS decision in Bush v. Gore.
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The "unusual alliances" here are the Supreme Court aligning by age. The majority is the 5 justices age 65 and under; the dissent is from the 4 justices age 70 and older. (Seems likely to hold up, at least!)
Maybe not so surprising on a technology-related issue? cc @jswalden
Georgia Can’t Copyright Its Entire State Code, the Supreme Court Rules nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/po…
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Hidden feature not mentioned: uses same version number on Windows (previously 4.6), Mac (also previously 4.6), and Linux (previously 3.5) so that you can stop being confused about what the current zoom version should be.
(Anyway, if you have an old version installed, update!)
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Both of those studies seem to point in the direction that airflow matters more and previously-contaminated surfaces matter less.
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Maybe also worth counting how many VPs were candidates for president prior to becoming the VP nominee. That seems like a recent trend, perhaps?