Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
- Tweets 7,521
- Following 1,244
- Followers 4,296
- Likes 18,519
So the only working mechanism now seems to be the online chat, which starts with a bot (and could probably finish with a bot if I wanted it resent rather than refunded, since I'd already bought it again).
And the way I found the online chat: google search "Amazon phone number".
1
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We haven’t yet used the full arsenal at our disposal to fight COVID-19 and stop its transmission, writes Jim Yong Kim.
And he should know—he’s a co-founder of @PIH.
I urge every policymaker to read his advice.
newyorker.com/science/medica…
509
1,760
81
5,153
This seems pretty close to the "nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded" argument (i.e., reporting on the data points that go against the trend), except that major cities aren't inherently crowded, they're just refusing to allow sufficient housing to be built.
America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure. Then Came Coronavirus. What Happens Next? @smervosh nyti.ms/3ajz32C
3
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Exclusive: Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests. This account confirms for the first time the contamination’s role in undermining the test and the CDC’s failure to meets its lab standards. @DWillmanNews washingtonpost.com/investiga…
15
51
10
57
I think there's a good bit of it in Korea and China too. Different blame for why it was destroyed, though.
1
Oh, the most famous building in Wuhan is one of these: it was originally built in AD 223, but the current building is from 1981, and 1km away from the original site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow…
BTW, the mud and straw buildings in Paris are (according to this colleague) relatively easy to identify because they couldn't build straight walls with that technique; they have to tilt inwards (away from the street) as you go up.
1
1
On the other hand, I feel like it east Asia the norm is "here is our historic pagoda dating to 1273. It burnt down to the ground 11 times and was most recently rebuilt in 1983 after last burning down in 1943 because of American bombing."
2
2
I've talked to a former colleague who grew up in a building in Paris that needed to have cement injected into the walls because they were built as mud and straw, but the straw gets eaten away after a few centuries, to the point where you can just poke through the walls...
1
1
Are 5-7 story buildings with straight walls really supposed to look medieval? Looks more like 17th-19th century, I'd think...
(Another example of a mostly rebuilt city is Lübeck, but I agree that many old European centers are substantially real, though often with new mixed in.)
1
1
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
.@Propublica talked to frontline experts from Italy, Spain, Germany, Singapore, Taiwan & South Korea + U.S. experts incl. @ASlavitt & @Farzad_MD about what it'll take to safely reopen the U.S.
Here's what we learned:
propublica.org/article/coron…
18
340
38
476
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The U.S. cannot safely reopen until coronavirus testing is at least *tripled*, experts say. New from @haeyoun, @TroyEricG and me:
nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
43
255
33
420
A photo of an urban environment I like [29/N]:
Shiba 5-Chome, Minato-ku, Tōkyō-to, 〒105-0014, Japan (border of 24-ban/26-ban)
日本〒105-0014 東京都港区芝5丁目 (24番/26番)
April 2018
3
3
IMO, that's a sign that we need to allow office development somewhere, and I'd rather put it in the places that are best for transit based commuting, which probably means dense urban centers near transit hubs...
3
There's also a shortage of office space that's pushing prices for office real estate a *lot* higher than residential. Maybe it's *possible* to impact fee your way out of office space renting for 2.5x what residential space does (per sqft) (going rate in Palo Alto, anyway), but...
1
2
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
So bashing WHO for uncritically sharing the skewed info it was getting from China in early January is basically...bashing WHO for complying with the legal guidance set out by the member states.
4
97
6
362
A photo of an urban environment I like [28/N]:
rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France
November 2018
1
3
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
BOOM: After @MITEcon published a study by @jeffeconomist blaming the subway for coronavirus spread, we got @alon_levy to debunk it — which they do in EPIC takedown fashion. buff.ly/3biHXyC @Tri_State @TransitCenter @RegionalPlan
4
29
6
96