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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As an SFO-based flyer, I'd add:
UA1 is SFO-SIN
SQ1 is also SFO-SIN
JL1 is SFO-HND
VX1 was SFO-DCA (before merger with AS)
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1/ When @nytimes senior health reporter Donald McNeil Jr writes, consider it mandatory reading.
This piece about what Asian countries did right to stop #covid19 - China, South Korea, Singapore etc- is both shocking, and incredible.
nytimes.com/2020/03/22/healt…
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South Korea and Italy had near-concurrent outbreaks that initially followed a parallel, terrifying trajectory.
Mere weeks later, as Italy reports 793 deaths in one day, Korea has two. Some days it has *zero*.
Me and Choe Sang-Hun report how they did it: nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world…
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I was surprised to learn a small county in Colorado was planning to offer serological testing for COVID-19 to everyone.
Then, I realized it was Telluride. Then, I realized the biotech execs whose company is making the tests live there theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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Yeah, Sydney CBD has them at intersections that are basically never empty, and often have 20+ people each cycle of the light. (And then occasionally none of the 5 who can reach the button actually press it.)
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The American Academy of Otolaryngology posted information on its website saying that mounting anecdotal evidence indicates that lost or reduced sense of smell and loss of taste are significant symptoms associated with Covid-19 nyti.ms/2QEGRor
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See my comments from almost 2 years ago, after my most recent visit to Sydney (part of a thread on visiting there):
On the negative side, the city center is pretty car-centric, and pedestrian hostile. Intersections in the core have beg buttons for pedestrians. Sometimes the person at the front of the crowd of 20 waiting to cross doesn't press it... and then it's a crowd of 50.
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It's good to see Sydney fixing their beg buttons. As a visitor, it was a bad characteristic of a city I otherwise quite like.
Too bad it took COVID-19 to do this. (In the long term they should just get rid of the buttons entirely, rather than just making them useless.)
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Also (again not SARS-CoV-2, but some animal coronaviruses) note the temperature-dependence found in ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… (note some graphs use hours and some use days).
Basically, degrades faster on surfaces when warmer.
I think this is why some hope R drops when warmer.
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See, when you point a software engineer at the constitution...
So what happens if a state structures its legislature as two chambers with the *same* number of legislators, but where one of the chambers had voting age of 14?
(never mind variable-size chambers from MMP)
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I think she was born abroad as a US citizen due to having a US citizen parent, just like Ted Cruz. I think consensus is that they're both eligible, although I don't think it's been tested in court.
When we get to that point, we'll also likely need to accept that anyone who tests positive doesn't get to quarantine-at-home, but instead heads to a quarantine hotel until they're no longer infectious. (Otherwise there's too much spread within families, etc.)
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14/Finally: if you're in a position to influence what we do to get back to normal, the answer is obvious: testing. Lots of testing. Repeated testing. And, most importantly, TESTING APPARENTLY HEALTHY PEOPLE. Every other approach keeps you home for 12 to 18 months or more.
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Post-exposure prophylaxis trial is open for enrollment. The trial is open to healthcare workers or household contacts anywhere in the USA who have been exposed <=3 days to known #COVID19. Email covid19@umn.edu on how to enroll. @UMNews #IDTwitter
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Everyone knows that we're facing a real crisis from the coronavirus. But do you know how we got here and what we need to do next? Ron Klain, former White House Ebola Response Coordinator, breaks it down for us:
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