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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nope, as Cliff said, it's San Mateo County. I think it's just outside of Menlo Park city limits, in unincorporated SMC, but I'm not sure how much I trust OpenStreetMap's city boundaries...
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goo.gl/maps/QDtN3gpFpFXdmE32…
Note that the photo is clearly westbound Sand Hill Road.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The deadline to get covered by Obamacare is this Sunday, December 15.
Head to HealthCare.gov to find a plan that works for you, and talk to your friends and family to make sure they're covered!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I've posted a new paper explaining how little-noticed legislative reforms from 2017-2019 have greatly empowered @California_HCD to tackle CA housing crisis 1/10
issue brief: law.ucdavis.edu/centers/envi…
full paper: law.ucdavis.edu/centers/envi…
blog post: legal-planet.org/2019/12/12/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Just read the new @CSElmendorf @elpaavo joint on administrative law changes that @GavinNewsom could use to achieve his housing targets without new legislation. It is a *home run* with important lessons for land use and state admin more broadly law.ucdavis.edu/centers/envi…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is a BIG deal, and a finding that's a bit buried in the @noaa Arctic Report Card out today. washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The I.R.S. accidentally conducted an experiment on 3.9 million Americans — and, in the process, provided the best evidence yet that health insurance saves lives.
nytimes.com/2019/12/10/upsho…
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Whereas engines/browers with smaller shares can *sometimes* get real wins for their users, at least for a decent length of time, by blocking just the current technique rather than the entire underlying problem. 4/4
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This means that larger-share engines need more thorough modelling of privacy like a security attack surface for privacy (or similar) mitigations to be equally effective (share of sites, time decay of effectiveness). 3/4
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For example, a browser with larger market share that makes cross-site tracking ineffective will make a lot more sites move to fingerprinting than one with smaller market share. 2/N
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A complicating factor here, in terms of the benefit for users, is that how much sites will work around these things varies depending on the market share of the browser. They'll do things for a browser with 30% share but might let the users of a 3% share browser go untracked. 1/N
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Your periodic reminder that we're about one year away from Flash being EOL by Adobe and not working in any modern, supported browser. If you still use Flash and don't have a transition plan already in place and being executed, you're going to have a really rough time.
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One thing Palo Alto has over Mountain View: a greater share of the restaurants and shops are in multi-story buildings that have something else in them (on higher floors). (A pattern that could eventually become urban...)
I could go either way on the ground floor food/retail...
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Is that map the "share" within the county (i.e., % of county's jobs in the innovation sector) or the "share" within the country (i.e., % of country's innovation sector jobs located within that county)?
The first seems much more useful to map. (Some counties have fewer people.)
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Number of months in the last year (Dec 2018 to Nov 2019) with an above normal temperatures. Dark red is 11 out of 12 months and while is all 12 months. [Note: Source is GHCNv4 and normal period is 1981-2010.]
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The trick is to figure out how to send the important notifications and not send the spammy notifications. I'm not saying its easy, but getting it right would be really useful!
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