The bill's draft text is at https://www.legislature.mi.gov....

It defines: "Circumvention tools" means any software, hardware, or service designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions including virtual private networks, proxy servers, and encrypted tunneling methods to evade content restrictions.

It also has this text:
An internet service provider providing internet service in this state shall actively monitor and block known circumvention tools.

So VPNs must be banned by ISPs if the bill passes.

Even if they start doing deep packet inspections to block the protocol just wrap it in SSL on port 443.

It's a learned skill and can be precise to the minute over at least a day. Granted it's gone by the wayside since there are so many exact reference's available now. There's no need.

I'm confident I could do 30 min margin of error over a few hours and I know many other much better than me. If I have an appointment in the morning I'll consistently wake up exactly 1 minute before my alarm no matter what time I go to bed.

Context matters. That was a wrap up/summary message in her broadcast. She was reporting on early data from the CDC that showed 90% efficacy against the early strains. In the vaccine world with the basic reproduction numbers associated with early COVID anything over 70% efficacy would stop the spread. Reporting statistical results to the scientifically illiterate public is always a challenge.

By far the worst messaging was with the face coverings and 2m spacing. Unfortunately they were based on studies of airborne Typhoid transmission. When they finally did the science for COVID-19's airborne particulates it was closer to 10 meters was needed to get to the 95% confidence level. Typhoid is transmitted with a bacteria of much larger size so fell out of the air quicker. Granted it did help because airborne viral concentration rapidly decreased with distance but it was messaged that you'd be safe at 2 meters.

Biggest reason is less regulations. Currently they need to get money transmitter licenses from every state and territories which all have slightly different requirements. Wise can't even legally get one in every state because some states require US Ownership. By getting a federal charter they can leverage that across the entire country. Don't need to worry about compliance to 50+ jurisdictions.

There are also the analog chips on the horizon. They don't have the precision in calculating the weights of a ML matrices but they are good enough for the algorithm needs and use a fraction of the power.

Each local government would pick a larger urban area to attach themselves to based on proximity or set themselves up as a timezone. Noon for most of human history has been peak solar. Synchronization beyond local areas has only been around for a few hundred years. We now have a globally recognized time in the form of UTC that can be used when absolute time or synchronization is needed across a larger area. Nothing is preventing us from moving to local time again other than bureaucratic inertia.

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.