Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I don't think it's primarily statistical -- I think it's tied to the ideas that:
* presidents normally lead big changes at the start of their presidency
* presidents with less experience at big-time politics have stumbled at the start and not gotten what they want (e.g. Clinton)
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My top reason to be optimistic about a @JoeBiden presidency:
The last two Democratic presidents with comparable experience relevant to the presidency (e.g., senior positions in US congress or executive branch, or large state governor):
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
California is interesting in that like WA, much of the outbreak is fueled by an early introduction of a lineage from Asia and then later cases derived from repeated introductions from elsewhere in the US. 7/14
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I'd expect a higher portion (than in almost anywhere outside China) of the baseline pollution in Hubei to be from electricity and heating, though.
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In Japan they're doing contact tracing and contacts are told that nobody in their *household* is allowed to leave the house (at all) for two weeks. I presume this means that they have a support system sufficient to provide food and necessities for those households. Does the US?
Even Castro Street in Mountain View is borderline unpleasant. And that's with traffic calming *and* a lot of plants. I'd say European cities are better models...
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Presumably any parcel has some probability of being redeveloped in a time period given a current use, current zoning, and current market... and I think that probability is generally relatively low for any given RHNA cycle...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I'm really happy about how our AudioWorklet impl turned out, it took a long time to spec and implement it with the level of quality we wanted. In this post, we talk a bit about what happened behind the scenes, and what you can expect in the future, that will make it even better!
🔊Audio Worklets landed in the release of #Firefox 76.
Developers can now leverage Audio Worklet to write arbitrary audio processing code. This exciting new functionality raises the bar for web experiences like 3D games, #VR and music production. 🕶️🎮🎵 hacks.mozilla.org/2020/05/hi…
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Based on railjournal.com/passenger/hi… I thought it was only a restriction on routes where rail took 2.5 hours or less. So presumably they'd still be able to fly Paris-Nice, Paris-Toulouse, etc., as they have been.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
it seems like people internalized the "flatten the curve" argument but never quite grasped the test-trace-isolate stuff that would cut it down to nothing. Trump wasted 8 weeks not doing that and so now people are getting antsy
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Did anybody else go to check if this is *actually* what the Google Trends graph look like?
It basically does match: trends.google.com/trends/exp…
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We also need to use the tests effectively, i.e., contact tracing and some amount of centralized quarantine. (At minimum, voluntary centralized quarantine in hotels for anyone who wants it.)
We don't need a large change; we're pretty close to R=1.0.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In times of crisis, the American people deserve a president who tells them the truth and takes responsibility. Donald Trump has not been that president.
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Perhaps it would help to suggest what other review you think is needed in some way other than subtweeting about it?
Perhaps we were going to solicit additional review when we publish a checkpoint of the document, which we were about to do once one more set of edits happens?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If you look at the country minus NY, from April 25 to May 1, cases have GROWN from 24322 to 28437. So outside of NY, positive cases are increasing by 17%/week.
EVEN IF CASE GROWTH DOESN’T GO UP, that would put us over 50,000 new cases every day outside of NY by Memorial Day. 13/
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I never said or assumed that they were equivalent.
It can be more useful to request review from a small number of people who look at something closely than from a large number of people who assume somebody else is reviewing the details but (together) are more likely to bikeshed.
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Sometimes they/we didn't because it was an experiment that didn't work out, but that nobody ever bothered to remove. And some browsers had larger markets for single-engine content that they cared about sometimes. But there was still a broad push for interop, though uneven.
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Though I think the bigger picture was that, at the time, all the browser makers saw that shipping something interoperably across all browsers was a much bigger win than shipping it in one browser. So all were willing to do what it took to get that. Much less true today.
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