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L. David Baron
@davidbaron
Mozilla developer, CSS and W3C standards diplomat
Nov 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So I was taking a walk in Palo Alto today -- I think along Webster Street -- and noticed one of those (common in Palo Alto) new-ish homes with fancy light wells for the habitable space in the basement. (It's popular because basements don't count as floor area for zoning code!) But this one was unusual. Unlike most of the fancy new houses I walk past in Palo Alto, this one was single story. Single story plus a fancy habitable basement, that is.

At first glance that seemed odd.
Jun 7, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So, a real-world story about how Ranked Choice voting by successive elimination (as implemented in San Francisco) is weird.

Many following SF politics saw the initial results for Mayor last night, when only the early vote-by-mail ballots had been counted. Breed was winning. Many also saw the later updates, late last night and today, with Leno winning. As of this afternoon (Preliminary Report 5), Mark Leno is barely ahead, thanks to RCV. (The election is still wide open, since there are a ton of vote-by-mail ballots still to be counted.)