Not so great for traveling folks. I'm in favor of going back to the 18'th century and having every locality set noon at peak solar for their urban area. That way lunch is always around noon. Timezone calculators already go by urban area now. As you said most time keeping devices already pull from local sources or have timezone tables built in. Just keep legal agreements at UTC time to avoid confusion.

The reduction to ~24 time zones is a relatively recent phenomenon. Made when trade expanded over large areas and computers didn't exist. I believe we definitely should go back to the way it was pre 1800's. Virtually everyone get's their time from a computer or microcontroller now and most calculate time zones far better than people. Just allow every urban area to set their own time zone. The problem with permanent DST versus not is it hurts people on the extreme edges of the time zones. And those on one edge want the opposite of those on the other side.

By having each urban area able to set its own time zone they can use the mean solar noon that is just subtracting the urban area's longitude divided by 15 from Zulu time or modify that with the Equation of Time (EoT) to compensate for the analemma. The first will give each urban area a fixed offset which I find preferable. The EoT varies +/- 16 minutes throughout the year so that would mess things up a bit too much (some daily changes of up to 45 seconds) but can easily be solved by restricting trade agreements to use Zulu time.

You need bigger quotes for your standard work day. I haven't seen a 9am standard in a LONG time. I've seen lots of 0730 start time's and "core" hours of 1000 - 1400. I'd love a job that didn't start till 9am. I've heard those called bankers hours but they still have them start at 0800 to 0830 and open the doors at 0900 for some of the older fashion places.

The whole standard vs daylight savings time argument is missing the forest for the trees. A vast majority of people want to stop changing the clock twice a year but where their city ends up keeps the tension/paralysis intact. Those on the west side of a time zone want to keep it one way and those on the east want the other way. The answer is to drop the 4 time zones for CONUS and return to how time was set pre-1883. Every urban area takes its mean solar noon sun as noon for the clocks. So UTC + longitude / 15 would be an area's current time.

Back then it was settled on 4 in the continental US since it was easy math for the trains. Now that smart phones and computers calculate all our times and they already store timezones as urban areas it would be simply updating a table.

US centric example but works world wide.

It may be what he's going for but he doesn't have resources to back it up. If he tried it during the Marshall plan days it might have worked. But now the US exports solid IOU's in exchange for knickknacks. He's tearing apart the confidence in the IOUs, even publicly flirting with the idea of defaulting, while destroying the fundamental's of the US economy. It's an annoyance for other countries while it wrecks havoc on the US economy. In the long run this will weaken the US and strengthen other countries' trade. Already happening in the short run. Ask US farmers how its going versus Brazilian farmers. Ask Ford how their balance sheet looks this last quarter.

Better I would say is a mount that brings the blade to neutral buoyancy and then a series of drone airships that handle the propulsion.

Someone didn't live through the loss of the floppy drive, DB9 ports, and parallel ports.

It's just another step in eliminating all penetrations that can possibly introduce water into the system. First was speakers/mics, next was buttons, and now SIM slot. Only thing left now is the USB C port which I'm sure is next on the plate.

Cancer rates for rural populations(457.6 per 100,000) are higher than urban (447.9 per 100,000). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...

So when do we get lawsuits against MS for XBox and Sony for Playstation developer fees?

And MS is going to package up the open source software in libraries to embed in their code.

They are positioned to handle trade winds from the NE. The vertical geography of the island makes the sites very poor for winds coming from the SW.

I believe the notification solution was a compromise with the cellular providers. They didn't want a whole bunch of devices holding IP connections open on their network. In the beginning even the notification channel Apple had was a negotiated capability and they still had to reset the connection at least every 24 hours. The early billing systems were each data connection was a call on the system. You could see in your bill about one data call a day with a boatload of data that lasted all day long.

The simple solution for you would just schedule a background task that runs every few minutes or so via a background push and if there are new messages issue an on-device notification.

Every metro region should establish it's own time zone with 1200 as high solar. Currently you'll see a huge bias of those on one side of a time zone wanting to stay on Daylight savings versus standard time. Smart watches and phones would have no issues tracking it. Calendars would be fine. Only significant issue I see is that meetings won't normally be on top of the hour if you aren't all in the same timezone.

Fermi 2 in Michigan had a similar event where they released Tritated water into Lake Erie. It got some local press but that's about it.