Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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This year's US Senate elections are for Class II (other than the special elections in Arizona and Georgia). This class was last elected in 2014 (electing 22 Republicans and 11 Democrats), and before that in 2008 (20D, 13R) and 2002 (21R, 12D). Those are pretty big swings.
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A thread on how I think about US Senate elections, since I think it's useful. Many people tend to focus on the Senate as a whole and how it shifts in a given election. However, I think the results are much more understandable when looking at the three Senate classes separately.
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It seems like the most likely electoral college tie scenario, given that I've seen it twice in the past few days in the 100-dots graph on @FiveThirtyEight is this map (created with @270toWin) 270towin.com/maps/d7ZeX #2020election
Not that unusual for November, especially in the western Caribbean, which often seems like the focus for late-season storms in the Atlantic.
See, e.g., Otto (2016, category 2), Ida (2009, category 2), Paloma (2008, category 4), Michelle (2001, category 4).
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The ETAs for Tropical Storm Eta.
Tropical Storm #Eta is now forecast to become a strong category two hurricane near landfall along the coast of Nicaragua. Tropical Storm conditions are forecast to arrive around 2pm EST tomorrow and storm preparations should be rushed to completion in the Hurricane Warning area.
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Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (10,183,598) in California.
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For the record, I haven't been proven wrong yet. (I voted for the SF Central Subway, although I seriously considered Brandenburg Airport and nearly voted for it.)
Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (9,158,997) in California.
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I think that's a reasonable argument... and I think if the spec in question said that, then Mozilla might evaluate it differently. (I certainly can't say for sure; I no longer work there.)
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That goes back to @marcosc's question about whether the description of the permission is sufficiently clear about the implications.
Do users actually see accelerometer as invasive, or as something that gives them neat bouncy effects in the corners of the screen?
Clicking/tapping/activating a link should be a safe action that users don't have to reason carefully about. Some of these arguments are indeed different if the user has performed some sort of installation ceremony for the Web app... though I don't think we've standardized that.
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That probably fixes most cases of the first attack I mentioned, but doesn't do anything to alleviate the second.
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Speaking of which, I have been to Hong Kong...
(Hong Kong is dense, but it also has plenty of open space.)
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Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (8,566,756) in California.
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Yes, this target is wrong; it should really be somewhere around double this number.
And I've said so to City Council (e.g., in cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/f… , page 75).
Quick! We all need to stop Palo Alto from being required to add 10,058 homes (houses or apartments) over the 8 year period of 2023-2031.
How can a city that residents describe as being nearly as dense as Hong Kong add 1260 homes per year? This is craziness!
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