I am the US Northeast and the proposal is to move to join the Atlantic standard time and not have DST. Season-wise and Lifestyle-wise, a study concluded that this would be a better fit than the current condition. I’d personally love that.
Seems unlikely to happen. While there are negatives to either changing the time or New England being in Eastern, there are also very big negatives to being in a different time zone from the rest of the East Coast, especially NY and being another hour removed from the West Coast. Large companies will keep de facto operating on ET.
I work for a large company and am in New England. I already regularly meet with colleagues in Europe or Asia, and it can be inconvenient but it's fine. If we were in a different timezone than New York I think people would mostly work around it rather than de facto falling back to New York time.
Given the choice between EST all the time or AST all the time I'd choose the latter, but it's still not ideal b/c it require school-kids to go to school in the dark, which is potentially more dangerous than the problem we're trying to fix. The counter-argument is something like "kids in Alaska do it" but I don't find that super convincing -- they do it b/c they don't really have a choice, doesn't mean it's the right choice for us.
There are certain latitudes where DST makes sense and for the rest of the country it's just an annoyance. It seems like people in the rest of the country don't really understand the benefits or why some people embrace it.
New England is probably one of the extreme cases in the US where you're trying to balance:
- Being in the same time zone as locations, like NYC, that you communicate with and travel back and forth to a lot.
- Not "wasting" (from the perspective of most) summer sunlight at insanely early hours.
- Doing the best balancing act possible with less than ten hours of sunlight in the winter for necessary morning and late afternoon activities.
Go further north and you're pretty much screwed in the winter anyway--it doesn't really make sense for Newfoundland to try to eek out some winter morning sunlight--but in the Boston area you sort of can.
I don’t disagree that the transition part is the worst, but more people are supporting standard time because it fits better with the schedule of most people.
I used to be on the DST camp, but a few years with a family and house of my own, and suddenly ST makes more sense. Then playing the game of placing oneself into somebody else’s shoes, and I realized that only young adults in rich countries really benefit from DST.
You don't do sustainable farming for the money. It can certainly pay the bills and some. Plus subsidies and incentives can help.
If you want to make money you start a vertical farming AgTech, which will not be profitable, but will attract the trendy funding. Pay yourself well while it last.
Lots of statistic. Especially anything to do with clustering, and how to analyze and compare gene and protein expression networks from various species, or tissues. Those are particularly important in this COVID-19 era.
In term of general network analysis and visualization, I think logic, symbolism, Petri net, are underutilized. Probably because they require more CS and Math type of trained people to work on those than your typical biologist becoming bioinformatician learned to handle.
Leting gouging happens also produces shortages, hoarding, mis-allocation, and crime. And no one starts producing new gas. Gas companies where not the one gouging to begin with, individuals profiteering from an unfortunate and temporary event were.
The main thing we see are individuals hoarding a product, setting up a shop to profiteer from an unfortunate and temporary event.
The situation is temporary and it would be a lousy business model to start developing a "new" product based on the possibility of asking a high price for a short period of time. The incumbents increase in revenue comes from additional number of sales, not from the price hike. What happens when the demand surge goes down? Who is more likely to stay?
I think a government should be able to provide strict guidelines on how a business can comply and get approved for staying open. Some States have that in place for companies that are on the list of exempt businesses, and those lists can be ridiculously long, with plenty of not-essential-at-all businesses.
The current problem is a lack of clear guidelines. To me it seems that the plan is to not have one.
Now, I do condone Musk's. I think his 9yo tantrum throwing behavior is on par with the child king staying at the WH.
> I was planning to go through all of his replies to other posters and debunk them one-by-one.
If you disagree strongly with someone, there are much better tools you can use like the down-vote button. Down-voted posts are harder to read and especially bad contributions get collapsed out of view.
Going out of your way to hound someone would only lower the S/N ratio here, which is not why we are all here; intellectual curiosity is why we keep coming back here not witch hunts.
His assumption is based on live-attenuated vaccines. The measles vaccine being one of those. All the early vaccines where like that. The process only requires heat inactivation. So you end up with a dead or almost dead virus, which can't replicate anymore. Your immune system recognizes it as a foreign agent, makes antibodies to tag it for removal.
Today we prefer to immunize with a part of the virus structure, which end up doing the same thing.
You can only get evidence if you go out and collect the evidence. I am proposing a way we can actually collect this evidence. Saying something won’t work because there is no evidence when you haven’t look for any evidence is not very logical.
Just questioning assumptions, in a healthy skepticism kind of way. I have no expertise here. There is a lot of speculation and general fud surrounding covid-19, seems right to question potential 'solutions' when we are light on facts. To be clear, I never said it wouldn't work, I'm saying that it looks like you assume it will work.
I most certainly have not assumed it will work, in fact I say there is a pretty good chance it won’t. What I do think it could work and that the cost in minor compared to the payoff if it does work.
Nobody is being experimented on or proposed to be experimented on. The proposal is to go and look for an attenuated strain and then decide what to do with it if we find one.
