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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Happy New Year, New Zealand.
Hopefully today is one of the days where the rest of us don't leave you off of the world map.
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I'd say:
fling/flinged/flung
wring/wrang/wrung
I wonder how many irregular verb differences there are between UK/US/CA/AU/NZ/ZA/etc...
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I think we've rather moved away from that idea in the past 50-110 years with central bank Independence. Making the fiscal policy be the monetary policy tends to make bad monetary policy. So we built institutions that aim to keep them separate. Or something like that....
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A 3% discount rate is sensible (low, even) if you're operating a business... less so (and far too high) if you're operating a civilization.
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The choice of discount rate, mentioned briefly there, seems like a huge issue to me. 19january2017snapshot.epa.go… focuses on a 3% discount rate. Compounded over 100 years, that means harm 100 years in the future is valued at 4.8% of harm today.
Seems wrong for this area of policy.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
An investigation! Some interactive maps! Here's who lives in Customs and Border Protection's 100-mile border zone, and here's what they have to deal with:
citylab.com/equity/2018/05/w…
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We started watching that a week ago... but have avoided binge-watching.
I also have enough family with close to that accent that if I was going to pick it up I would have already...
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Fantastic selection of #news showing some of the most interesting, satisfying and #positive #stories of #2018 via @Medium @angushervey. #GlassHalfFull #storytelling
medium.com/future-crunch/99-…
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NEW from me: some light holiday reading about Joel Kaplan, one of the most controversial & influential executives at Facebook, & his growing ability to kill, postpone & shape $fb products that risk making conservatives angry. wsj.com/articles/facebooks-l…
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Anyone who claimed to be concerned about a former president speaking with the Attorney General about unknown topics yet has no opinion about the current president pushing his Attorney General to “control” the prosecutors investigating him is a complete hypocrite.
Folks concerned about Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac during HRC probe may want to look at this
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Today, Senate President @toniatkins announced her decision to name me Chair of the Senate Housing Committee. I’m deeply grateful for the trust she is placing in me, given the depth of our housing crisis. I‘ll work hard every day for a bright housing future for all Californians.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Corker says Schumer and McConnell struck an agreement with him and Flake. He then met with Pence and Kushner and Mulvaney to get sign off. Schumer and McConnell will announce on floor within 30 minutes he says
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If a Senator from Hawaii does 40 round-trips between IAD and HNL per year (a total guess on my part), that would be enough to qualify for United million-miler status in about 2 years and 7 months...
Ugh.
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Whoa, a manual recount resulting in a change of outcome.
Recounts have been completed, with an outcome changed between 3rd & 4th-place candidates for Orchard School District race.
Outcomes confirmed for Cupertino CC, Oak Grove SD, Luther Burbank SD and Luther Burbank bond.
Press release w/link to results:
bit.ly/2T4w2ea
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I have some thoughts about this looming shutdown...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The New York Times front page for Friday, December 21st. Catch up on a day of upheaval here: nyti.ms/2CrKW8Q
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