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Re:In a remote corner of Romania, neighbours kill each other... by fsloth on Saturday November 21, 2015 @03:33PM (#10607928)
It's probably a matter of familiarity rather than of humanity. I fail to see how numerically illiterate would fair better using rulers with imperial units rather than metric ones.
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Re:In a remote corner of Romania, neighbours kill each other... by mc32 on Saturday November 21, 2015 @05:59PM (#10608377)
True but it's familiarity with oneself, one's own human dimensions.
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