Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There's a word officials at @USAID used when one of their colleagues was ousted because of pressure from @VP's office.
She had been "Penced."
I spoke to 40 current/former officials and experts and saw internal emails. Here's what it means to be "Penced." (THREAD)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"California is not alone. It's just more extreme."
How the Golden State wound up with the worst-in-the-nation housing crisis.
BIG thanks to @homiedonttweet @YueQiu_cuj @BBGVisualData & @KaraWetzel for all their hard work on this one.
bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
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This is looking like less of a respite than I thought before -- even though the forecast is roughly still holding up -- because it looks like things should switch back to the N/NE wind pattern during Saturday, and thus bring us more smoke again.
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The rule for counting ballots with stuff like that is that once you reach a rank with multiple candidates, the ballot doesn't count.
So a ballot that says Alice #1, Bob #2, Christine #2, David #3 will count towards Alice until she's eliminated, and after that will not count.
I already went through a bunch of the overvotes (multiple votes for the same rank) to debug the problem. A few people always vote in interesting ways. A bunch of fun things like "rank three candidates #5 and three candidates #6".
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Also, the amount of data that SF will be publishing for this election is going to be ridiculously large. I believe it will include images of every ballot.
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Well, they moved to an entirely new voting system that produces output in a different format that I needed to implement support for.
I had a test dataset last week, but I didn't have the corresponding tables from the city to check my output against, so I needed to do that live.
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OK, I figured out why my numbers didn't match the city's RCV results; I needed to discard marks that had the IsAmbiguous field set to true.
So at least my RCV tables match the city's tables now.
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The errors are pretty small -- but I'd have expected these things to match.
I suppose the least bad explanation is that the reports were produced at slightly different times during a count that was adding ballots to the dataset.
We'll see if the later results match...
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So I'm a little confused by the election results numbers coming out of San Francisco right now. The first-choice results on sfelections.sfgov.org/novemb… don't match the short RCV tables at sfelections.sfgov.org/novemb… and neither matches my calculations at dbaron.org/sf-elections-rcv/ .
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Democrats appear to have swept races in Delaware County, PA — where the GOP has controlled govt. since the CIVIL WAR.
Delco Dems appear on way to sweep of 3 County Council seats. Would give them 5-0 grip on county government. #delcovote
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: @SecPompeo enabled Trump's hijacking of Ukraine policy. Pompeo has spread conspiracy theories & failed to defend veteran diplomats from Trump’s attacks. Now he faces political peril in the impeachment inquiry. Detailed story of crisis w/ @SangerNYT. nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/po…
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Where did SB 330 do that? I thought it only prevented cities from making lot size requirements (among others) stricter than what they already were...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Northerly winds near the #RanchFire in Tehama County south of Redding will allow some smoke to move toward the Bay Area. Smoke is expected to cause hazy skies and potentially elevated hourly air quality readings, but air quality is not expected to exceed the federal standard.
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I think people are increasingly aware that both native apps and the web have advertising and tracking.
If users can have confidence that the web has less tracking, that could give *users* a reason to apply pressure ("no, I won't install your app") to move to web.
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I think people may have different impressions and actual behavior as far as portion of time spent in:
- native apps that need APIs that aren't on the web
- native apps that could be on the web (no key missing APIs)
- using the web.
Pressure between these comes from apps & users.
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I'd be interested in seeing more examination of accuracy of evidence in the parts of our legal system that target those less able to fight the system.
And it's important to remember that cars can easily kill those in and around them, and must be handled very carefully.
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... and given the things I've read about various other forms of evidence being entirely unscientific (such as an article about evidence suggesting whether house fires were intentional or not... although again, an area where the privileged are under more scrutiny).
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