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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I think you meant to tag @MyZombies rather than me.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Why we have a housing crisis: since 2010, the Peninsula city of San Bruno has added ~5k jobs but issued building permits for just 184 units of housing. Last night, they blocked a 425 unit project. It was "too urban."
We need state intervention NOW.
bit.ly/2YLoaBv
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My new piece for @TheAtlantic on Trump and Kim Darroch. Theresa May gave Trump everything he wanted, took all his abuse, and it was not enough to save the ambassador theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Pennsylvania lawmakers stripped power from @Krasner4DA, giving authority to @PAAttorneyGen to prosecute firearms violations in Philly— and nowhere else in the state. Law sunsets after 2 years – just after Krasner’s 1st term ends theintercept.com/2019/07/08/… w/ @ryangrim @theintercept
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I'm upset she's attacking AOC, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar, but I think she's right to not attack a Democrat in an R+3 district (Gottheimer) since she knows it's hard to follow the party line and get reelected reliably in those districts.
Very unlikely within our lifetimes, but after hundreds of years, especially if we keep emitting CO₂, I think it's possible. I don't remember details, though.
Depends what you mean by "entire", I guess?
But also look at other places: nearly all coastal cities, but also London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Beijing, Wuhan, Baghdad, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston, Bangladesh, Florida, Louisiana, Netherlands, Denmark, ...
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Have a look around flood.firetree.net/ set to +60m sea level rise (roughly the "all ice caps melt" scenario) and see what's flooded...
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By pure population share, if you assume the bay area needs 1.5 million new housing units (a larger-than-by-population share of California's 3.5 million need), RWC would need to build 17,000 units. But given its more job-friendly and transit-friendly location, should build more.
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Redwood City is probably producing 20%-25% of what's needed to get us out of the shortage (2789 units in 5 years), rather than the usual 2% or 5% or 10%. So it's still not an example of success.
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Also a bunch of bad policies at the state level (e.g. Prop 13, CEQA... not sure how much discretionary approvals are dictated by the state)
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I think there was a big stack near Les Halles in Paris (on the side near Saint Eustache?) on one of my recent visits. Probably not most recent, though, so maybe 2016?
I think nitter.vloup.ch/asmallteapot/sta… is the main reason, though.
Not really; we got incredibly lucky because it was in the middle of nowhere. If this hit as close to the Bay Area as Loma Prieta or to Los Angeles at Northridge, many people would have died.
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One final kicker: on their website, Hancock Park Homeowners Association Established 1948 acknowledges Nat King Cole as a "past prominent Hancock Park resident" but fails to mention they were founded to oppose him moving into the neighborhood because he was black.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A couple friendly reminders:
1. The GOP has won the popular vote *once* this century.
2. They have appointed 15 of the last 19 Supreme Court Justices.
They have stolen the court. And there is zero recognition here that we even have a problem.
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Some good MMI shake maps:
Here are the MMI shake intensities for the M7.1 Ridgecrest and the M7.1 Anchorage earthquakes. Both have Mercalli (MMI) level V shaking for about 20,000 square miles. However, the shallower depth of the Ridgequest quake means the max intensity was IX (vs VIII for Anchorage).
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Here are the MMI shake intensities for the M7.1 Ridgecrest and the M7.1 Anchorage earthquakes. Both have Mercalli (MMI) level V shaking for about 20,000 square miles. However, the shallower depth of the Ridgequest quake means the max intensity was IX (vs VIII for Anchorage).
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