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Comment Re:Let's roll our own Time Zones too! (Score 3, Insightful) 129

"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8-5 workday in the UTC-3 or UTC-4 timezones"

When writing an article of this sort your goal should be to _explain your position_, not to create a math problem which, if solved in the correct manner, suggests what your position could be. If the authors wanted to point to a 7-3 work day in UTC-5, they should have simply said so instead of going out of their way to state something quite different.

It's not hard.

Here, it could look something like this:

"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with a 7-3 workday in the US Eastern timezone (UTC-5), allowing for standard Daylight Savings changes as observed in Virginia, DC and Maryland"

It should not look like this:

"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8 PM - 5 AM workday in the UTC+9 time zone, showing that this was clearly the work of North Koreans with insomnia"

Do you see the difference?

Comment Re:Revisionist history? (Score 1) 223

If you were Canadian, you would have been seeing Spock on the $5 for years and years. Even the older bills with different portraits were suitable for being "Spocked".

Not only that, you would know how to fold two $1 bills so that "Banque du Canada - Bank of Canada" changed into a request to do something impolite with a banana.

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