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Situation: there's a problem, and our current way of coping is something we've done 27 times so far. Reaction: let's stop using the system we have some practic
by rossdavidh 4y ago
Situation: there's a problem, and our current way of coping is something we've done 27 times so far.
Reaction: let's stop using the system we have some practice at doing, and instead open up the question again, but really just have big tech corporations dictate to the world that we need to do something else.
- SoftTalker 4y agoMight be before many people's memory here, but Swatch tried to create an "internet time" in the late 1990s. Nobody uses it because it doesn't solve any problems anybody has, it's just different.
- jefftk 4y agoWe may soon have the first negative leap second. This isn't something we've ever done before.
- ncmncm 4y ago27 times, badly. Every time, 27 times over, it has been a serious hassle, for exactly zero benefit to anyone. Choosing not to impose a hassle and source of bugs on millions of people every year or two is obviously correct. Anyone who wants to use what astronomers use will still be free to do that, without bothering literally everybody else.