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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Well, I'm not going to be wearing my "I voted" sticker on the Wednesday morning commute on the 信義線 (Xinyi Line) this time around.
It was a good timezone for following election results, just not good results...
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15/ SCOOP: Facebook ran experiments on an algorithm change in Jan 2018 and when it hurt traffic to right-wing opinion sites, they retooled it to shift harm to progressive NEWS sites, @MotherJones among them.
And there's a PowerPoint deck out there: motherjones.com/media/2020/1…
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"High-rise living is much more environmentally friendly than suburban single-family housing — downtown residents use half as much water, require far less heating, and take far fewer car trips than denizens of single-family housing. It produces much less traffic ..."
You’re undoubtedly seeing plenty of campaign-related mail & social media claiming that some councilmembers gave $67 million of taxpayer dollars to developers—and you should know why that’s a lie. Here’s the full scoop: link.medium.com/R0cmOw3BIab. #FactsMatter
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Bleak but possible scenario I hear from ppl:
1/ No stimulus deal by Nov. 3
2/ Biden wins, Trump loses interest in deal w/ Congress. So: No additional stimulus until Jan. 20 at earliest
3/ New wave of cases Nov-Feb causes severe economic damage just as DC is most paralyzed
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Young people, vote!
(Screenshot of data on ballots returned statewide in California from politicaldata.com/2020-ballo… .)
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My latest for @nytopinion: No, not wearing a mask is not "freedom," even by the standard *conservative* definition of the word. This is insane. It is chaos, which is unfreedom. Democrats must say so.
nytimes.com/2020/10/17/opini…
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Where is the information on 油麦菜? Is what en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt… says about it really true? (I'm skeptical.) Shouldn't this site be able to settle this?
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Even if the Constitution "had a singular meaning," @jbouie writes, "you would still have to make a choice about which Constitution to adhere to, either one written to secure the interests of a narrow elite or one written for the sake of us all" nyti.ms/356JLbQ
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Another substantial change in Prop 19 limits the ability to *inherit* low property tax assessments. That one has the opposite balance: it reduces inherited inequality.
Inheritance of property tax assessments seems like the most insidious part of Prop 13.
This tipped me to YES.
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Trump uses federal disaster aid as a cudgel against a state where millions did not vote for him. And millions did.
Breaking: The Trump administration has rejected California’s request for disaster relief funds aimed at cleaning up the damage from six recent fires across the state. latimes.com/california/story…
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Hannah Arendt, a German Jew, political theorist and philosopher, was born on this day in 1906.
One of her many legacies: Totalitarianism can flourish where people systematically refuse to engage with reality, and are ready to replace reason with ideology and outright fiction.
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A big finding in the study: 9 states are barring at least 10% of their adult Black population from voting in 2020.
They are AL, AZ, FL, IA, KY, MS, NE, SD, and TN.
Tennessee's is the highest: 22%. More than one in 5 Black adult are disenfranchised there.
The Sentencing Project released a new study estimating that 5.2 million people will be barred from voting in the 2020 election due to a felony conviction.
In 2016, that number was over 6 million. Progress, but still a long way to go. sentencingproject.org/wp-con…
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Waiting in line for hours to vote should be considered less a story on voter enthusiasm and more a story on voter suppression. No one should have to wait hours to vote.
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The bugzilla reference is probably bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… , and the code I was using is at hg.mozilla.org/users/dbaron_… (I should perhaps mirror that to GitHub, though it's small).
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The relevant spec text is:
"The UA must therefore only automatically hyphenate text for which the content language is known and for which it has an appropriate hyphenation resource."
from drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/…
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🚨🚨🚨A GOOGLE MAPS STYLE PROPERTY TAX MAP!!! 🚨🚨🚨
Check out how much your neighbors and businesses are paying in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara!!
Look at how little so many commercial properties pay! End the loophole!
#YesOnProp15
officialdata.org/ca-property…
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As a general point: the historical judgment will be that America had the most powerful economic weapon in history and frittered it away on sanctions regimes which—even if you don't care about questions of morality—were mostly strategic failures. washingtonpost.com/national-…
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