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Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by helthanatos on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:52PM (#14441056)
Yes and no. Scientific measurements should definitely use metric. Home measurements and measurements that don't matter are perfectly fine using the American system; they're more understandable in a way.
Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by helthanatos on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:19PM (#14455174)
Looks like someone disagrees but couldn't contest me with a comment. Stop down print without reason
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Re:It's time for the US to use the metric system by sctb on Sunday June 04, 2017 @02:36PM (#14482803)
The guidelines ask us not to complain about downvotes in the first place, but we definitely don't need this kind of comment here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html