Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (10,183,598) in California.
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For the record, I haven't been proven wrong yet. (I voted for the SF Central Subway, although I seriously considered Brandenburg Airport and nearly voted for it.)
And you're expecting the Central Subway when?
In January 2018 the expected opening was 22 months away; by June 2020 it was... down to 18 or so months away.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This may not matter directly for Tuesday's elections, but if every blue state does everything they can to boost turnout, it may indirectly aid democracy by undermining the Electoral College if it causes Dem popular vote wins & makes it easier to pressure red states to follow suit
Hawaii has long been among the worst states for voter turnout in part because the competitive races happen almost all in Dem primaries, but this is the first year they mailed everyone a ballot, & turnout may explode to a record high after already shattering records in the primary
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Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (9,158,997) in California.
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I think that's a reasonable argument... and I think if the spec in question said that, then Mozilla might evaluate it differently. (I certainly can't say for sure; I no longer work there.)
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That goes back to @marcosc's question about whether the description of the permission is sufficiently clear about the implications.
Do users actually see accelerometer as invasive, or as something that gives them neat bouncy effects in the corners of the screen?
Clicking/tapping/activating a link should be a safe action that users don't have to reason carefully about. Some of these arguments are indeed different if the user has performed some sort of installation ceremony for the Web app... though I don't think we've standardized that.
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That probably fixes most cases of the first attack I mentioned, but doesn't do anything to alleviate the second.
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Speaking of which, I have been to Hong Kong...
(Hong Kong is dense, but it also has plenty of open space.)
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Update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (8,566,756) in California.
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Yes, this target is wrong; it should really be somewhere around double this number.
And I've said so to City Council (e.g., in cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/f… , page 75).
Quick! We all need to stop Palo Alto from being required to add 10,058 homes (houses or apartments) over the 8 year period of 2023-2031.
How can a city that residents describe as being nearly as dense as Hong Kong add 1260 homes per year? This is craziness!
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Or that if the accelerometer is enabled while showing you videos of people you might find attractive, the app could probably figure out your sexual preferences/orientation?
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Does that explain that if you leave the accelerometer on while you walk around a city, the app could tell what route you took by matching it to maps?
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Today's update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (7,912,871) in California.
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(California has no headline elections this year except the president. There's no Governor's race in presidential years, and this time there's no Senate race. So it's just President, House, and a ton of propositions and local elections. Of those, President is still the draw.)
Today's update: Map of US states whose TOTAL POPULATION is larger than the number of mail-in ballots ALREADY RETURNED (7,402,302) in California.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Today, Seamless Bay Area is unveiling a map of our Integrated Transit Fare Vision — a fully unified system of transit fares that would enable riders to travel seamlessly across the nine-county Bay Area with a single transit fare and free transfers 🗺️ seamlessbayarea.org/integrat…
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