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Seconded...... The insistence on displaying data only in units the majority of the world has condemned to obsolescence is baffling.
by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago
Seconded...... The insistence on displaying data only in units the majority of the world has condemned to obsolescence is baffling.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoIt's data about the US, where such units are the default.
- yakak 4y agoThe article and even the source article are like reading a research paper about beehives written for bee dancers. Meters? Space per inhabitant? Irrelevant to your next hive where water should only be .5 seconds of beeswagger dance away!
- TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago> It's data about the US Posted on the internet with a worldwide audience. (Including this HN audience of engineers and scientists). > where such units are the default. All the more baffling!
- pleb_nz 4y agoBut the audience is global... And even in the US most of science and the engineering world now use the metric system. Imperial is largely just a public facing/public consumption unit of measure now.
- Wobble4978 4y ago"it's data about the US, where such units are the default." You change units depending on what the data is about. Thats wild But what if your data is about the US AND UK? What do you do then ?