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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One of the reports (based on a case in Germany where a traveler from China spread COVID-19) that said that the disease is spread by asymptomic individuals was retracted. I haven't seen a for-sure statement either way (i.e., can transmit or can't) since that report...
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Seems more clearly worth the investment if it's shown to improve learning rather than improve test taking (or be unknown which it improves).
Colder classrooms when learning, or colder classrooms when taking the test? Or did it distinguish?
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We'd at least need to install air conditioning in schools in pieces like Pennsylvania where schools don't have it today but are intolerably hot for much of June, July, and August. Or at minimum better cross-ventilation.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is extraordinarily bad
Government health officials and scientists will have to clear statements about the coronavirus outbreak with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, in an effort to tighten the White House’s control of messaging about the virus
nyti.ms/3a7omjV
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How about Taipei?
I think Taipei and Tokyo have a strong major street versus minor street/alley distinction, like Paris does. But Taipei and Paris hold to pretty uniform density across the distinction, whereas Tokyo drops to lower density in most areas off major streets.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
UPDATE: Patient being treated for coronavirus in Sacramento came to hospital last week but was not tested by CDC, despite requests from local health officials, according to UC Davis Medical Center email.
sfchronicle.com/health/artic…
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The United States has done only 445 tests for COVID-19, or 1.36 per million people in the country.
New Zealand has done 121 tests for COVID-19, or 24.4 per million people in the country.
Sources:
cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco…
health.govt.nz/news-media/ne…
populations from Wikipedia
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
First U.S. coronavirus case with unknown source in Solano County, patient is being treated in Sacramento County sfchronicle.com/health/artic… @erinallday
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So is this:
* Facebook trying to imply that the NHS has better health advice than the US government (or California), or
* a sign that Facebook's algorithm for where I am is simply "the last place I gave it location permission" (which I think was Heathrow Airport, on Feb 1)?
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That's nice, except when the two meetings you had that used to be consecutive now overlap for three weeks, because one of them follows US time change rules and the other follows Germany, because that's where the people who created the calendar events happen to live...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is an astonishing situation -- South Korea has done 35,000+ coronavirus tests. The US has done ~400 and the rollout of testing capability nationwide has been held up by a faulty test.
NEW: Testing for coronavirus in U.S. is key to understanding how widely it may be spreading in communities. But a faulty CDC coronavirus test has been repeatedly delayed. w @carolynyjohnson @lauriemcginley2 washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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It's the Sunday after next Sunday (March 8), and this year it's three weeks (March 8 through 29).
It switches between 2 and 3 weeks since it's the interval from the second Sunday in March to the last Sunday in March, so it depends whether March has 4 or 5 Sundays.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Nearly every country on Earth: We need to halve roadway deaths by 50% in ten years. We can do this. No excuses.
USA: Ugh, that sounds *hard.* Do we have to?
bit.ly/2HSVn7e
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Though regarding the explanation, it's not like high-end (i.e., people, not machines) car washes in the bay area don't mess up floor mat hooks while seeming to have no idea that there's anything important about them...
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Maybe it's people using MySQL's "utf8" rather than the obviously (or not!) much preferable "utf8mb4"? :-/
mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
yearly reminder: when you pay turbotax money to do your taxes, you are in part paying for the tax system to remain complicated enough for turbotax to stay in business.
taxes for most people could take 0-5min but turbotax lobbies against it
vox.com/2016/3/29/11320386/t…
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