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Seems like an excessive placation for a very minor problem. People post in SI and the Americans convert it, Americans post in US and everyone else converts it.
by throwawaaarrgh 4y ago
Seems like an excessive placation for a very minor problem. People post in SI and the Americans convert it, Americans post in US and everyone else converts it. There's no rocket launches failing because a HN comment's units had to be converted.
It also seems weird on principle. If 65% of HN readers spoke Mandarin, would you make all your comments in Simplified Chinese?
- oliwarner 4y agoPerfectly valid points, but I probably wouldn't complain if I did post on a Mandarin-heavy site and somebody translated it. That's what happened here. Somebody posted in their native unit, somebody converted it to the audience-standard unit and you took issue with "normal" and a lot of words were thrown on the bonfire of internet squabbles and here we are. I don't expect people to change their units themselves. It's nice when they cover both bases. But it's also nice when people offer a conversion so others get the picture without having to do any mental gymnastics. I think what we could all do without is this bit.