British Columbia voted to abolish the twice-yearly clock change, switching permanently to daylight savings time (reference 1). Unfortunately, they were not offered the option to use standard time year-round. Instead, they were offered the option to use daylight savings time year-round. Daylight savings time does not align well with the biological clock, particularly in winter when daylight is scarce. Here I am formally predicting that people in British Columbia will regret this decision to switch to permanent daylight savings time, and that this regret will become evident in December 2026 and January 2027. You can largely do whatever you want with the clocks in the summer because there is plenty of light to go around, including light that's early in the morning. However, in winter it's a different story when daylight is scarce. When that happens, it works much better with our biological clocks and our mood when the daylight occurs early in the morning - which is the case in st...
Suppose I went to my local cafe to buy a coffee, and suppose the cafe accepted cryptocurrency. What incentive would I have to use that over fiat currency? None. If I pay with cryptocurrency for that transaction, there are 3 problems: the need to pay gas money, a similar idea to a transaction fee be contributing to global warming with the computationally-intensive nature of cryptocurrency cryptocurrency is not FDIC insured By contrast, if I pay for the coffee with my debit card, I don't need to pay a transaction fee. The transaction would probably be quite a bit faster since nothing computationally intensive has to happen. Also, my money linked to my debit card is FDIC insured, unlike money in a cryptocurrency wallet. So for multiple reasons outlined above, cryptocurrency is an inferior means of exchange compared to fiat currency. Now, if you were to tell me that cryptocurrency's main advantage is not as a means of transaction but rather as an asset that could increase over time...
