Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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Also, at a good bakery such as maps.app.goo.gl/yLCevWZ5CoNk… the baguettes are warm.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f… says:
Except as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), if a vacancy occurs in an office after a recall petition is filed against the vacating officer, the recall election shall nevertheless proceed.
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Explainers are also useful for iterating on a solution at a high level, before everyone agrees what the right solution is, and well before it's time for precise spec text. To be useful for that, they need to be understandable. They might also need to go deeper on key questions.
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Agreed. I think the movement to have explainers has similar motivation, although some folks feel strongly that explainers should be separate documents (I don't). Whether separate or not, there's significant risk that the non-normative part gets out of sync.
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Relevant law is CIV 1947.12 (g): leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f….
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I think that "Bay Area" number only applies to the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley MSA, which is not the whole Bay Area and excludes areas such as Santa Clara County. (I think the others are for MSAs as well.)
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The next largest gaps for me would be:
35.5° Buenos Aires - Keflavik
20.3° Mourea, New Zealand - KOA Airport, Hawaii
19.5° Cape Kumukahi, Hawaii - Sitka, Alaska
16.2° Cessnock NSW, Australia - Kepler Track, New Zealand
10.9° Gullfoss, Iceland - Lisbon, Portugal
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I flew west to get to Stockholm, but also left it going west. The last ~week of my life in which there were longitudes I hadn't flown through, the gap in longitudes was Berlin-Stockholm.
Stockholm is E because there's a 95 degree gap between the E and W points, my largest gap.
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That would produce the same result for me, although the line of longitude opposite my home is only a little over 10 degrees away from my westernmost point.
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In my case, since I have done round the world trips, it's defined by the largest E-W gap in places I've been on land.
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what’s the farthest to each direction you’ve ever been?
N: Gullfoss, Iceland
S: Oban, Stewart Island (Rakiura), New Zealand
E: Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
W: Yìngchéng, Xiàogǎn, Húběi, China
(excluding air travel, and a transfer at HEL)
The E-W thing is undetermined since I've flown over both oceans a bunch of times, but, N = Kiruna, S = Singapore.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/5 How did the U.S. government turn into one giant DMV? Read @annielowrey on the “time tax”—“a levy of paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens in exchange for benefits that putatively exist to help them”: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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The ACA currently prohibits premium surcharges in the individual market for any health factor other than tobacco use. However, employer plans — which cover many more people — could use use financial carrots and sticks under wellness plans to encourage COVID vaccination.
The unvaccinated will have higher healthcare costs and drive up costs for everyone. Should they pay more for insurance? What about medicare?
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Almost all the swarming I’ve been seeing has overwhelmingly consisted of likely synthetic bot accounts (few followers, limited topics, etc). Who benefits from putting resources into spreading this type of public health disinfo? It should be understood as a natsec problem.
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This is alarming: CA's new COVID surge would have put many counties back into the most restrictive tier under our reopening blueprint.
It's time we do something uncomfortable: make vaccination mandatory—at schools, gyms, hospitals, workplaces, etc. Thread—mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/c…
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This @mattyglesias piece on vaccines is great. I especially agree with his emphasis on the (overdue) need for FDA approval. The lack of full approval has been a sticking point I’ve heard from open-minded people who have yet to get vaccinated. slowboring.com/p/vaccine-fda…
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