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Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Have 1 kid born earlier this year. Hoping to leave the Bay Area within a year or two to be closer to family (Philadelphia), location depending more on my wife's job than mine. Entirely possible we won't have any daycare until we move, given multi-year wait lists here.
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My current apartment *and* my previous apartment both had multiple switches that control nothing. (Well, *maybe* it was just one for the previous apartment, but it's multiple in this one?)
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Choose an area around where you live, and set a goal of walking at least once down every block within that area? (Exclude high-traffic streets if you want.)
When you finish, expand the area?
(Now my walks need to be 6 kilometers to get to blocks I haven't been to yet.)
I think my phone got up to about 170... and then I just stopped getting push notifications from @Twitter on it.
I'm also not sure how much systemic redesign we should do around the threat model of "incompetently corrupt president". Seems like other threat models are worth considering, and we probably need bigger changes to address them.
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I think the argument on the other side is that our justice system should be designed so that errors are predominantly being too lenient rather than too severe, and thus we should accept letting some guilty people off as the price to pay to avoid imprisoning unjustly.
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I was surprised to discover (while trying to reduce the number of things we had to carry back when visiting my in-laws) than import of seafood into the United States is basically unrestricted.
(I did manage to not have to bring the dried vegetables.)
There seems to be evidence that young children transmit the disease less, so I think it's not clear you'd have been the biggest risk factor.
Nonetheless, not going seems like the right call.
In the Amoy Gardens SARS-1 outbreak, the virus was originally spread through the toilets, but the aerosols then caused wind-borne transmission to adjacent buildings!
Really, the lesson is to make sure your U-traps don't dry up. Or maybe don't build bathroom floor drains?
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The articles on the Amoy Gardens outbreak of SARS-1 are worth reading. The key article is nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… and the government report that it both builds on and partly debunks is legco.gov.hk/yr03-04/english… .
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Oh, and of the 2 RT-50 parcels that were developed:
101 Forest (only partly in the RT-50 zone) doesn't look like it has any housing. I think it's Philz Coffee plus office.
801 Alma is a 100% affordable housing complex built with the city's affordable housing money.
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How many of those 55 parcels zoned RT-35 were developed in 2004 or later (by "Year Built SCCA")?
None!
(The 10 parcels zoned RT-50 did a little better; 2 were developed: 101 Forest and 801/809 Alma.)
I'd say this makes it pretty hard to call the SOFA II plan a success.
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In late 2003 (I think, the date on the final SOFA II report is December 2003), the RT-35 zone was created, with 55 parcels zoned RT-35.
I just clicked on all 55 of them in the @cityofpaloalto parcel reports at xmap.cityofpaloalto.org/parc… .
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Nope. Palo Alto has 24 sites listed in in cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cu… ; none are downtown. Most are in the Stanford Research Park area.
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Or maybe it's the amount of process that @cityofpaloalto puts in the way of any construction that isn't a single family home or a zoning-conformant office building or other business.
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