We just need to change Earth's rotational speed and orbital period so that the number of days in a year is congruent 0 (mod 10). If we had 1000 day years, then maybe we could have 10 months of 10 weeks of 10 days. Or with 100 day years, we could skip months and just have 10 weeks of 10 days.
Somewhere between Mercury's and Venus's orbits, we could have a year with 100 days of our current length. It would be nice for our existing circadian rhythms but a bit on the hot side...
A bit further than Mar's orbit, we could have a year with 1000 days of our current length, but pretty chilly.
Maybe we could take Mars's orbit, since we think it had liquid water and we've go a greenhouse going anyway... That is about 690 of our current day lengths. But maybe we could spin Earth up to have 1000 rotations per orbit, and each day would be about 16.5 of our current hours.
Given the utter climate chaos we'd get from this, it might be more realistic to move everybody underground and then we can just program the lights to give us whatever decimal time units we want... ;-)
Ok but for most people work hours are dictated by a shared clock (and many daily activities as well) so... It becomes a coordination problem if we don't all agree on what time it is in each locale.
I appreciate the coordination problem here, but I do think that states are making it harder than it needs to be. The federal government doesn't need to be involved. Each state can decide on their own how to coordinate this, it does not need to be the entire nation (and indeed it already isn't, as the examples of AZ and HI show).
Considering that one of the biggest problems in our country today is trying to run more and more at the federal level instead of at the state level, it's really silly to add to that pile.
No, the law is that states can decide to not implement DST at all, but they can’t decide to have it permanently.
At one point a couple New England states were looking at this, but for that reason it would have been implemented by moving to a different time zone: year round AST rather than year round EDT. (Which are both UTC-4.) That said, I think states need federal permission to move time zones, too.
The federal government constrains what states are allowed to do, so it has to be decided at the federal government. AZ and HI got legal exceptions long ago.
As I understand it, any state is welcome to keep standard time all year, as AZ and HI do, without dispensation from the federal government.
Changing time zones or keeping permanent daylight time requires a dispensation. It is my firm belief that state legislatures have voted to keep permanent daylight time as a way to not actually change anything while telling constituents that they're doing stuff.
Markets are a heuristic for solving some computationally hard problems. Heuristics get stuck in local optima. Overcoming local optima is presumably what GP meant by coordination problem.
The US tech labor market is much more of a seller's market than when I started. Domestic demand has grown faster than supply, despite any offshoring that has also happened.
I think it's much less cynical than that. People both fear and dislike AI, recognize that the "it may destroy my livelihood and commodify human creativity" complaint falls on deaf ears, and are latching onto anything resembling a credible ethical complaint that people may actually listen to.
According to another comment, the title exploits GitHub's forking feature to point at a commit which appeared to be in `github-actions/cline` but which instead invisibly pointed to the typo-squatted repository.
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