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
I’m spending Thanksgiving indoors with a lot of new people!!!
Because I’ll be working in the ER.
Even then - with PPE and COVID testing - the risk won’t be zero.
If you don’t need to travel, please don’t. There’s just no foolproof way to make holiday family meetups zero-risk.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Let’s be clear: indoor dining is endangering everyone, especially restaurant staff and their families. Do not dine indoors!
My latest: How did San Francisco’s #coronavirus numbers get so much worse so quickly? The city’s contact tracing system isn’t good enough to pinpoint hot spots, but doctors point to indoor gatherings, indoor dining, travel and sloppiness with the rules. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heat…
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"Your family is obviously qualified, but have you ever worked as a mechanic?"
"Yeah, in my father’s garage, yeah."
"As a mechanic? What did you do in your father’s garage?"
"Tune-ups, oil changes, brake relining, engine rebuilds, rebuild some trannies, rear end..."
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
NYT: Investigations by @NewYorkStateAG & @ManhattanDA expand to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees, some of which appear to have gone to Ivanka Trump. w/ @mmcintire, @WRashbaum & @benprotess
nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyreg…
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In the past few days, I've seen a significant increase in the amount of spam that's sent via Google Forms.
I've used the "Report Abuse" UI that Google has... but the form itself is uninteresting; the spam is in the email message that sends it.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Test positivity is not a metric with any universal meaning. It is very sensitive to small shifts in testing.
It crept into policy making months ago - for reasons I’ve yet to understand.
But it really must be interpreted ONLY if you know the denominator characteristics
Test positivity should not be the sole metric for making high consequence decisions about opening or closing businesses or schools.
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Were those without children more likely to make wills because (as today) the default rules were less likely to be what they wanted?
(Hopefully the paper addresses this; I can only see the abstract.)
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Is this the full list?
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1804, 1808)
John Quincy Adams (1824 won, 1828)
Benjamin Harrison (1888 won, 1892)
William Jennings Bryan (1896, 1900)
Thomas Dewey (1944, 1948)
Adlai Stevenson (1952, 1956)
Donald Trump (2016 won, 2020)
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Here's an image of the most interesting markings. There are no markings like these on the other mail from the same sender that arrived promptly. Note that there's a mark from "LOUISVILLE KY 400" on 19 AUG that is overwritten by another "LOUISVILLE KY 400" mark from 28 OCT.
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Some of this is likely connected to government malice, with the political appointees supervising the postal service trying to impede mail voting in the election.
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Yesterday (November 16) my wife received a check in the mail that was sent in mid-August. Other mail from the same sender, both before and after, had arrived promptly.
The extra barcodes on the envelope, some of them crossed out, are somewhat interesting...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SCOOP: Ga. SoS Raffensperger says Sen. Lindsey Graham pressured him to toss legal ballots. wapo.st/3lEogGq
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Have we been in the Purple Tier before? I thought we were in Red when the tier system was set up, though I could be misremembering...
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The state also announced today (based on cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCD…) that tier updates can happen any day of the week now, and that counties can jump more than one tier at once. Perhaps they expected Red because of the old rule that said a county only moved one tier at a time.
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Well, now it's time to find out what the Purple Tier is like...
(It's about time things are more restricted... although I thought we were expecting Red rather than Purple.)
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On the other hand, a Category 5 in mid-November is unusual ("the latest category 5 on record for the Atlantic basin"). Also two major hurricanes in the same place, two weeks apart, is likely to be disastrous.
#Iota has become a category 5 hurricane and is forecast to bring catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge, and torrential rainfall to Central America. hurricanes.gov
