Posted on 08/27/2019 2:41:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Only an idiot could come up with an idea like that. “
If it is good enough for NASA and NOAA it is good enough for me.
For thousands of year, time was calculated from the highest point of the passage of the Sun during the day. That was called Noon. and clocks, sundials, hourglasses etc could provide an approximation of time throughout the next 24 hours.
A simple App for your smartphone could calculate high noon for your longitude and could be synchronized with other timepieces and systems. We could all live in Sun time, even trains and airplanes could use Sun time for their schedules. Since most people never travel more that 25 miles from their home, the change would be hardly noticed.
Only an idiot could come up with an idea like that.
Intellectuals Yet Idiots!
The Intellectual Yet Idiot
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(Chapter in Skin in the game )
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligentsia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence hence fall into circularities — but their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats who feel entitled to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism — in fact in their image-oriented minds scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types — those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior — much of what they would classify as “rational” or “irrational” (or some such categories indicating deviation from a desired or prescribed protocol) comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.) They are also prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we saw in the chapter extending the minority rule.
For more go to the link below:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577
I grew up in Germany where a day has 24 hours. At 1 pm the time changes to 13:00 which is actually easy to remember.
This has nothing to do with the calendar, but the time, and how do you know he did?
I’ve often wondered, now that we are truly a global culture, and it’s “always five o’clock somewhere”, what if GMT was the only time? It would take some adjustment, but It may make sense.
I think it might be a good idea. I mentioned this article to my wife and her response was, “I’m all for it”.
But we’ve not given it a lot of thought.
Especially left wing professors
This time would be locally computer generated based on when high noon is at your physical local location. Your day would be exactly the hours between sunrise and sunset. Just like it used to be for centuries.
Anything requiring a schedule or coordination, class times, work meetings, conferences would all use GMT.
No confusing time zones to worry about.
We might need some new nomenclature for global coordintion but the old standards : morning, afternoon, evening and night should still suffice.
I've got the code ready to go. It needs to be a bit less accurate before I make it available on a webpage, the wobble of the earth causes a variance that is probably unnecessary. Does anybody really KNOW what time it is?
It is now 5:00(LNBT) in Batavia IL
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Half the earth would get up, go to work, and experience much of their life in the dark.
“Our London office shuts down at 17:00, GMT. Our New York office closes at 22:00 GMT. Our Chicago office shuts down at 23:00 GMT and our Seattle and LA offices shut down at 01:00 GMT.
Simple, once you get used to it.
Charging students $400 for a book they wrote and only use one paragraph out of it on a test.
We have people from all over the world on many of our conference calls. It would be awesome to set one time for the meeting. And people in New York would just get used to morning being at a certain time on the clock and the “middle of the day” being a different time on the clock.
Where it might become a problem is that standard business open and close times would become a local culture thing. They might still use the existing time zone borders to determine “business hours”.
I live on the boundary between estern and central time. In my town, 8:00 pm is the same as 7:00 Pm in the next town. Imagine both always being the same time - except businesses close down “an hour earlier” in my town. At least when someone says “I’ll see you at 3” you don’t have to find out what time zone they’re talking about. three is three.
The only time change I like is in the fall when we “fall back” one hour.
These guys are worried about a conference call starting ontime...
Like on Battlestar Galactica? Centon?
Instead of the song “Workin’ 9 to 5”, it’d be “Workin’ 3 AM GMT to 11 AM GMT”. Somehow it’s just not that catchy.
I think that it comes from the Nautical world. In the Royal Navy, the new day began when the sun was at it highest point, time thereafter was kept by hourglasses and a system of bells announcing watches. If they couldn’t see the Sun, they continued with the hourglasses until a fix on the Sun could be made. When and how that came to be called Noon, I know not.
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“Only an idiot could come up with an idea like that.”
Most of the world’s militaries use GMT or Zulu time. And I do not think they’re idiots.
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