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·il y a 4 ans·discuss
It was common to have at least one clock per room.

Wall-clocks were convenient, cheap, and provided comfort in the form of not needing to wear a watch around the house.
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·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Glad that they're trying to simplify it, though it'ld seem obnoxious to maintain a 1-hour addition to the discrepancy between solar-time and clock-time.

It'ld seem far more sensible to have a system that tries to align clock-noon with solar-noon (this is, noon on a [sun-dial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial )). After that, if folks want to change whatever times work/school/etc. are at, awesome, folks can change such times -- as a matter of scheduling, without obfuscating clock-times.

I guess it doesn't matter too much. Computers should be able to re-interpret times, such that different folks in the same community could use different time-systems, while computers would automatically interpret between them for users' convenience. Then, folks could pick the time-system of their choice without regard for what their peers use -- much like no-one cares what font-size others use -- rendering the exact choice of standard a relatively low-level primitive-formatting-detail.
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·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Idiomatically, "shelved ideas". Shelving can be more abstract, but generally it's not idiomatic for abstract-concepts to be "on a shelf".

Language aside, I think you're being inconsistent with that concept: there are better solutions for compensating artists than NFT's already, so it's inconsistent to say that you want active-solutions as a justification for working on an less-active-solution.
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·il y a 7 ans·discuss
Some of the downvotes may be from crypto-programmers' frustrations, too.

I mean, obviously, someone has to code crypto, or else it wouldn't exist. But, whenever you try talking about the topic online -- whether you're doing it professionally or for self-education -- a probably well-meaning chorus of spam comments warn against doing anything.

I suspect that some crypto-folks have given up rebutting the don't-roll-your-own stuff and just down-vote reflexively.