Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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@GavinNewsom is committed to the full vision for high speed rail, including connecting SF <> LA. His comments today were unclear, but have since been clarified.
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We will have to talk about where we live. slate.com/business/2019/02/g…
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“If your business accepts or uses bitcoin, stopping that is almost certainly the best thing you can do to reduce your company’s carbon emissions” @merxplat at #rubyconf_au - 205kg carbon dioxide per transaction!
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Any chance of speeding this up so that, say, the next Bay Area RHNA cycle could have a larger opportunity to contribute to Governor Newsom's goal of 3.5 million new housing units by 2025?
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Congrats to Cupertino Mayor Steven Scharf for out-Trumping Trump on the night of the SOTU by declaring that Cupertino will build a wall and make San José pay for it. We are not amused. mercurynews.com/2019/02/05/c… via @Emily_DeRuy
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I guess I'm saying I suspect people have the intuition that refugee admissions correlate with racial tolerance even if data don't back that up.
Perhaps people who have seen stats on refugee admissions per capita? But willingness to let people in doesn't correlate perfectly with treatment once they're there...
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I'd note that back then, substantially more scrollbars had buttons at the ends than do today... and you really don't want to clip the buttons.
And it looks like I implemented that in bugzil.la/459144 and the relevant spec prose is in drafts.csswg.org/css-backgro… ("If the curve interferes with UI elements such as scrollbars, ...")
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Try population or GDP... and don't bother splitting Australia.
Population:
1. California (39.6m)
2. Texas (28.7m)
3. Australia (25.2m)
4. Florida (21.3m)
5. New York (19.5m)
GDP:
1. California ($2.7t)
2. Texas ($1.7t)
3. New York ($1.54t)
4. Australia ($1.5t)
5. Florida ($967b)
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Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. wired.com/story/malware-dna-…
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Who's Afraid of Budget Deficits? @LHSummers and I provide an analysis of the US fiscal situation and a path forward in our Foreign Affairs piece. This table motivates much of our story. foreignaffairs.com/articles/…
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But I think it's largely progress -- modulo the risk that it pushes more development to ECR which is more car-dependent than the downtown area. (Not unlike Mountain View and Los Altos...)
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I wish it were offering bigger changes for downtown and cal ave, i.e., more height, a lot more FAR, and avoiding the requirements that force underground parking (esp. for small buildings).
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My guess would be that the most significant change in this package will be to encourage substantially more and larger development along El Camino. I haven't actually vetted that guess by asking developers what they think, though.
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It's not clear (and I think many are pessimistic) whether the changes for downtown and cal ave mixed use areas are significant enough to encourage development of residential rather than commercial in those areas. Parking still makes that hard, & FAR still way less than I'd want.
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The units/acre number does matter a bit, to discourage buildings w/ lots of tiny units (such as Wilton Court, paloaltoonline.com/news/2019… ). Lifting it makes small units more plausible in downtown / cal ave / ECR (but not RM districts). Not sure if the market will build that in PA.
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