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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Hmmm, I was at least misremembering the source, since it's not in papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… where I thought I might have read it. Hopefully not the substance, but sometimes I remember things wrong (or the source might not have been that reliable).
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I read something (I think in @greg_shill's writing) about how driving tests and licensing were created to make it *look* like drivers were trained so that it looked like it made sense to give them less liability/responsibility for the harm they cause.
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For example (numbers need tuning!), set the gas tax each week to the larger of:
- the tax that makes the post-tax price its 50th percentile over the past 5 years
- the smaller of (a) 50th percentile tax *amount* (not %) over the past 5 years or (b) relevant externalities
I'd love to see a tax on carbon-based fuels structured to auto-rachet up when oil/gas prices dip. This would let us gradually ease in increasing the prices to account for the negative externalities that we should be including in the price.
A gas tax makes sense with the dip in oil prices and Berkeley should put one up on the ballot.
A rideshare tax is pointless on an industry that's on the verge of total collapse right now. A gas tax is a secure revenue source and is in line with our climate and transpo. goals
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Must be that somebody thinks you can put bell pepper in a cheesesteak. 😜
I had a similar reaction to March 2020 in H-Mart's calendar, though:
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The 2000 presidential election in Florida, from the butterfly ballot to 5-4 SCOTUS decision in Bush v. Gore.
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The "unusual alliances" here are the Supreme Court aligning by age. The majority is the 5 justices age 65 and under; the dissent is from the 4 justices age 70 and older. (Seems likely to hold up, at least!)
Maybe not so surprising on a technology-related issue? cc @jswalden
Georgia Can’t Copyright Its Entire State Code, the Supreme Court Rules nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Supreme Court's decision is a vindication of the ACA's original structure. If the money had been paid out years ago as intended, it no doubt would have stabilized the marketplace and given consumers more choice. Now, it's basically a $12 billion windfall for insurers.
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Hidden feature not mentioned: uses same version number on Windows (previously 4.6), Mac (also previously 4.6), and Linux (previously 3.5) so that you can stop being confused about what the current zoom version should be.
(Anyway, if you have an old version installed, update!)
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Both of those studies seem to point in the direction that airflow matters more and previously-contaminated surfaces matter less.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
YOUR WEEKEND READING: A very speedy team of people put this together on just what happened during the unprecedented collapse in oil markets on Monday (special h/t to The Architect aka @jfarchy) --> The 20 Minutes That Broke the U.S. Oil Market bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For the last month, I’ve been trying to figure out why New York and Seattle fared so different in the pandemic. The result came out today in @NewYorker:
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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Maybe also worth counting how many VPs were candidates for president prior to becoming the VP nominee. That seems like a recent trend, perhaps?
The relevant statistical thing was that X (which I had) causes some large portion of the cases of Y (thing I didn't want), but that's not actually scary since X is common and Y is rare, so the % of people with X who get Y is still very small (despite high % of Y caused by X).
I was taken off his patient rolls when he... became head of the internal medicine department at PAMF and reduced his patient count. I ended up moving to San Francisco shortly thereafter.
sutterhealth.org/find-doctor… (and that photo was out of date in 2006!)
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