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
We've internalized a lot of harmful ideas in U.S. transportation. But one of the worst ones is that speeding is harmless. It's not.
It kills 10,000 people a year, conservatively. That's as many as drunk driving.
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Why has the market determined that the capitalization rate in Menlo Park is 3.25%, but that it's 5% in Fruitvale? That difference explains the bulk of the difference in profitability, and I don't see an explanation of it.
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Misidentifying a Clark's or Western Grebe (I think) as a duck is clearly a sign of something off... ;-)
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or "vous n'avez pas la priorité" as they say in France (since roundabouts invert the usual rule that at an unsigned intersection you must yield to traffic to your right)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW: AG Bill Barr told Congress today that he anticipates releasing special counsel Robert Mueller's report by mid-April, "if not sooner." The report is nearly 400 pages, Barr says
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Though I wonder how often it's really the CEO who should get the blame rather than somebody a level or two under the CEO... and also how to tell the difference.
Does that mean I get to offer statehood to Puerto Rico (Atlantic standard time), American Samoa (Samoa standard time), and Guam and the Northern Marianas (Chamorro standard time), increasing the number to nine?
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/…
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/…
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Please revise #AB161 so that retailers aren't allowed to retain the contact information (email addresses or phone numbers) longer than needed to send the receipt.
Otherwise consumers will be afraid to provide their email addresses for fear of getting more spam.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
But the story has been different for the poor. If you claim the earned income tax credit, you’re more likely to get audited than someone making twenty times as much propublica.org/article/earne…
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
中国湖北省孝感市应城市城中街道粮贸街南路
Liáng mào jiē South Road, Chengzhong Subdistrict, Yingcheng City, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, China
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There are laws in many parts of the US forbidding charging for public bathrooms -- which in turn reduces the number that are provided since it's harder to justify maintaining them (or maintaining them well).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
People who can't afford cars are increasingly having to live in places that were designed with the idea that everybody would have cars, and one terrible result is more pedestrian deaths bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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And then some, like Palo Alto, have a lot of unpopulated or barely-populated area:
openstreetmap.org/relation/1…
Probably the parts between Foothill Expressway and 101 (or, more so, El Camino Real and 101) are close to that density.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
California’s housing shortage - including our failure to allow enough housing near jobs & transit - forces long commutes & increases carbon emissions. To solve climate, we must solve housing. Here’s a piece in today’s @nytimes I authored with @dan_kammen. nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opini…
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
rue Caulaincourt & rue des Saules & rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris, France
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As to United, I think I actually prefer the aircraft body part of the new livery, though they could have kept the tulip on the tail. But they wanted something to symbolize the Continental half of the merger, and the end result seems decent.
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