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A_Bug_That_Thinks posted:In the future, there will be two kinds of countries: the ones that use the metric system, and the ones with self driving cars Other countries will get them but only after enough Imperialists are murdered by them to saite the metric gods.
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ArbitraryC posted:I'm not saying there's anything wrong with metric, just that there's nothing wrong with imperial so long as everyone is on the same page. That's the crux of the issue, we're not all on the same page in this globalised world. There's one hold out using deprecated measures for everything and minorly inconveniencing everyone else for no good reason.
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Mar 28, 2018 04:46
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ArbitraryC posted:That's not entirely true and I've already provided several examples of it (such as using Celsius instead of kelvin). Different fields tend to use different go-to units and in terms of practicality there's no real difference in converting imperial units back and forth to mks than there is converting cgs units back and forth to mks. Some fields use bars, others use pascals, they're both metric and it takes the same amount of time to convert between the two as it would if you were using torrs or psi to convert to either. I can tell you personally that when it comes to a given particular field of study everyone sort of falls into using similar units to what's already in the published works because you get a feel for what the ranges and magnitude are. As long as the units are consistent no one gives a poo poo aside from dweebs online. Using the bolded as an analogy, the published works use metric and everyone sort of fell into using it except one hold out. As for different fields using different units it doesn't seem relevant here as the US isn't a different field of expertise, it's the same field.
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