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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(Oh, and if I remember correctly, home heating in Norway is generally electric already. Maybe also true in B.C.)
There should be a bunch of places new hydro power stations could be built to meet new demand from moving off fossil fuels, but not sure if there is political will for that today.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr… says hydropower is 98% of electricity in Norway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr… says hydropower is 87% of electricity in British Columbia, and 59% for Canada. (There's a reason Canadians talk about paying the "hydro" bill.)
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Hydro is great in mountainous rainy places like Norway or British Columbia. And some northern places also have plenty of wind. Agree nuclear is good for many of the rest, though.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The NWS is calling for *each* of the next five days to be hotter than the *official all-time record* for Anchorage. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a forecast quite like this.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Hours before Óscar Martínez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria drowned in the Rio Grande River, they were extorted... told they had to pay $500 apiece in order to cross legally (and safely) into the U.S.
news.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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At least one of the others had trouble keeping his account active due to the attacks on it:
Summary:
01:42 suspended per Twitter email: "abusive behavior" and "targeted harassment of someone"
18:36 restored per "account got caught up in one of these spam groups by mistake"
My tweets are pretty boring. Running pics. #IndieWeb #CSS
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The old conventional wisdom that gerrymandering is risky in a swing state because it makes you vulnerable in a wave election just doesn't apply to some of the new computer-generated gerrymanders lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/201…
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Palo Alto has "private open space" (often balconies) and "common open space" requirements.
City council debated a few months ago if roof decks could count towards common open space; they now can, *unless* they're on the second floor, thanks to one persistent NIMBY councilmember.
Must yell "special build" before the dice leave the hands of the player rolling them (who then stops doing so). Otherwise it's too late!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NEW On Trump's remain in Mexico policy, the union repping asylum workers said this is “something that they did not sign up to do when they decided to become asylum and refugee officers for the United States government.”
wapo.st/31Z3h7M?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Is Australia's lack of recessions the result of the definition of recession referring to decline in GDP rather than GDP/capita, combined with Australia's higher population growth rate (mostly from immigration)? How would it compare if we were looking at declines in GDP/capita?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working.
I cannot believe that sentence.
"The books will stop working."
I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
BTW here is my full explainer on Castro's immigration plan, including repealing 1325: vox.com/2019/4/2/18291584/20…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
THREAD: Today I went to the public library for the first time in a long time. A woman came up to me and asked me to help her with the computer so she could apply for a custodial job. She had gone to the organization she wanted to work at, and was told to apply online.
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