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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Today, some homeowners pay 10x (that's 10 times) a neighbor each year in property tax.
300 years from now, that grows to a multiple of 503x in property tax.
$489K versus $246M
Thank you voters in 1978 California for #Prop13!
How will the state survive this?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Holy crap: factory built homes were the majority of homes built in the US during the 1960s and they were mostly regulated out of existence to protect the home building industry!
Jim Schmitz has some accessible slides on the history here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1sKq…
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I also remember one that was pretty clearly bad disk -- a repeated startup crash on a single machine that was clearly explained by a single bitflip in the instructions being executed.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage/sludge is predictive of:
a) Community transmission
b) ⬆️& ⬇️ intensity of #COVID19 outbreak
c) as a leading indicator (by ~5 days) for cases
Our new study w/ @jordan_peccia Ed Kaplan @NathanGrubaugh @WeinbergerDan & others
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump declares states of emergencies in major cities
The DOJ announces a criminal investigation into Biden
Trump refuses to accept a loss and won't leave the White House
Doomsdayers are planning for the most contentious presidential election since 1876
nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Federal judge guts Florida law requiring felons to pay all fines and fees before they can register to vote. wapo.st/2AVBdt3
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The post is by @bhology; it just has a picture of me (at my standing desk) at the start of it.
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You're referring to this part of Hong Kong?
(photo of 19 Mount Austin Road, The Peak, Hong Kong, which I took on 2013-11-16)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Apparently if you don’t do a lot of testing you don’t have a lot of illness. That’s like saying if you don’t have inspectors general you don’t have corruption. Um. Oh right.
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Well, you can blame the SOFA coordinated area plan, Phase I, for creating the DHS zoning (Detached Houses on Small Lots).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Today I launched an investigation into President Trump’s firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. @SenatorMenendez and I requested that administration officials preserve all records related to the firing & turn info over to the committees by Friday, May 22.
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Super-fancy furnished basements (with windows) are all the rage in new Palo Alto construction because they don't count against the 0.45 FAR limit.
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Some of the new super-expensive SFHs don't even look like McMansions. Have a look at 905waverley.com/ and 909waverley.com/ which are 5BR/5.5bath houses with an additional studio (+1bath) in-law unit on top of the garage.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Scoop: The State Department's inspector general has been terminated tonight, the latest of a slew of inspectors general to be ousted in recent months w/ @nahaltoosi politico.com/news/2020/05/15…
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Or, really, I should say, $3.8M is what some realtor optimistically thinks the teardown value of the parcel is. It's probably less, especially now.
If you've walked around that neighborhood (which I have), you'd know that many older houses there get torn down and redeveloped into something bigger. $3.8M is the teardown value of that parcel; it would probably be the same if there were a shack on it.
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