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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But I ended up being pleasantly surprised when I dug into it. The law is in library.amlegal.com/nxt/gate…, and the gist is that it works a lot like a sales tax; it taxes (see section 956.1) services performed in the city or goods shipped to the city.
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Since it taxes receipts rather than profits, I was worried it might be structured in a way that made it impossible for low-margin businesses that serve customers outside the city (e.g., not finance or tech or services for locals) to be viable in San Francisco.
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Discussion around San Francisco's Proposition C (e.g., nitter.vloup.ch/Scott_Wiener/sta…) made me wonder if SF's Gross Receipts Tax is as bad as it sounds. Knowing about the real estate transfer tax, which uses progressive rates based on the entire value (not margin), I expected the worst.
Today I’m joining Mayor @LondonBreed & Assemblymember @DavidChiu in announcing our opposition to Prop C. We must invest in homeless services & housing, but Prop C - the largest tax increase in San Francisco history - is the wrong approach. My statement: medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/sen…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"The 54 senators who voted to elevate Gorsuch had received around 54 million votes, and the 45 senators who opposed him got more than 73 million. That’s 58 percent to 42 percent."
@michaeltomasky on what it means to have a minority-rule Supreme Court: nytimes.com/2018/10/05/opini…
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1. There's been some chatter about what sort of foreign policy the emerging political left in America can have. Here's a project: a popular movement to end the Saudi-American alliance.
BREAKING: initial assessment of turkish police is that saudi journalist khashoggi was killed at saudi consulate in istanbul - two turkish sources tell @Reuters
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
One of our highest medium term priorities must be to enfranchise - to empower, Americans in Puerto Rico, DC, Guam, American Samoa with full representation in Congress and to allow formerly incarcerated individuals to vote.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
One big political Q, to me: does cementing a 5-4 conservative majority also cement Trump’s alliance with traditional R leaders more securely than ever, or does it open the possibility for conflict by removing the most important goal linking them?
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The damage Republicans have done to Americans' understanding of legal terms, criminal investigation, and the types of evidence deemed reliable in sex-crime cases is incalculable. Forget Kavanaugh—millions of sexual assault victims will suffer because of what Republicans did here.
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Murkowski's recent electoral history:
2010 R Primary:
51% Miller
49% Murkowski (inc)
2010 General:
39% Murkowski (write-in)
35% Miller (R)
23% McAdams (D)
2016 General:
44% Murkowski (R)
29% Miller (L this time)
13% Stock (I)
12% Metcalfe (D)
She beats challengers from right.
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Since I checked the numbers before retweeting (since I do that):
Using the census 2017 population estimates (adding exactly, then rounding), I get 181.45 million for the No senators and 143.58 million for the Yes senators.
Seems close enough, but curious why a bit different.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Kavanaugh was nominated by a candidate who lost the popular vote by 3 million+ votes.
The 49 Senators who voted 'No' on Kavanaugh represent 181.8 million Americans.
The 51 Senators who voted 'Yes' represent 143.2 million.
Our political system is broken.
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Do local governments in California have the power to mandate modifications like that? (Or do they just have the power to condition permits for some modifications on other ones?)
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The erasing of George W Bush is so interesting to me. He put Kavanaugh on the bench and he worked the phones to secure votes for him this week!
.@mercedesschlapp: “President Trump stood by Brett Kavanaugh throughout this whole process, I don’t know if any other Republican president would have done so.”
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell." nybooks.com/articles/2018/10…
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3. Don't nap.
4. But it's fine to go to sleep early-ish (7pm, 8pm?) on the day you arrive.
5. don't be afraid to entirely decline the meal on the plane if it's at a non-eating time at the destination, and you don't expect to be hungry. (Carry a snack in case, though.)
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1. try to sleep 3-4 hours on the plane, preferably during night in the destination timezone. Even if you can't sleep, literally just sit there with your eyes closed.
2. stay physically active (walk, a lot!) when you arrive, for at least the day you arrive and day after
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Totally depends on whether you're the person who can't sleep on a plane or the person who can't stay awake on a plane.
As the former (can't sleep), and someone who does 9 hour time changes a few times a year, my strategy is:
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Double gradient stop positions (useful for solid-color stripes) are now supported in @FirefoxNightly thanks to @eqrion. Work was done in bugzil.la/1352643. This allows syntax like:
linear-gradient(to right, white 25%, silver 25% 50%, gray 50% 75%, black 75%)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
At Caltrain board workshop on business plan, just presented evidence that with BART-like service Caltrain could get BART-like ridership, model predicts 250,000 riders by 2040
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