Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Young people, vote!
(Screenshot of data on ballots returned statewide in California from politicaldata.com/2020-ballo… .)
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Where is the information on 油麦菜? Is what en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt… says about it really true? (I'm skeptical.) Shouldn't this site be able to settle this?
Another substantial change in Prop 19 limits the ability to *inherit* low property tax assessments. That one has the opposite balance: it reduces inherited inequality.
Inheritance of property tax assessments seems like the most insidious part of Prop 13.
This tipped me to YES.
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The bugzilla reference is probably bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… , and the code I was using is at hg.mozilla.org/users/dbaron_… (I should perhaps mirror that to GitHub, though it's small).
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The relevant spec text is:
"The UA must therefore only automatically hyphenate text for which the content language is known and for which it has an appropriate hyphenation resource."
from drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/…
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Depends on the proposition. Definitely true for initiative constitutional amendments that add to the constitution and hard-to-amend legislative propositions. Less true for easy-to-amend legislative ones, or legislative constitutional amendments. Not true for bonds/taxes.
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In any case, I think I'm voting no as a default, partly because a law this complex probably shouldn't be done by proposition.
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It's not clear if that's describing a change from current law (relevant) or a difference from somebody's ideal law (not relevant), though it sounds like the latter.
I'm hesitant about banning this behavior. One good characteristic of ad-based funding of web content is that content providers are willing to charge less to poor people since selling ads impressions to poor people is less valuable. I'm not sure how such a ban would change this.
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I've figured out my entire ballot except for Prop 24, which is really something I should have an opinion on. Reading the LA Times and SF Chronicle endorsements left me conflicted. Need to read eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/wh… more closely tomorrow...
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OK, they were finally posted sometime today (weren't there earlier, are there now). So they're online the day after my ballot arrives...
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Just wait for a cycle where there's no competitive statewide election in the non-presidential (i.e., gubernatorial) even year election.
(The actual number required is sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-… based on leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f… )
Unsurprisingly, Delta Air Lines has announced some deltas to its operations because of Hurricane Delta. news.delta.com/delta-issues-…
[*] OK, OK, it's a little unusual to use the word "deltas" for "changes" in this context.
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I also wish they'd provide information about how frequently the ballots are collected from ballot drop boxes.
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Annoyed at @sccvote which still hasn't managed to post the voter guides at eservices.sccgov.org/rov?tab… (you can search, but they're not found), even though my ballot is arriving today. I was hoping to vote as early as possible, but still don't have info about what's on the ballot.
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