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Re:Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz by esolyt on Saturday July 08, 2017 @06:17PM (#14727461)
> Whether it's Metric vs. Imperial

To be fair, humanity did standardize that long ago. There is a country that is refusing to switch to the standard.

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Re:Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz by refurb on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:21PM (#14727807)
When you're the only super power you can get away with it!
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Re:Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz by pmarreck on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:40AM (#14728523)
If you're not in that country and are speaking English and it's your native tongue, then it's highly probable that your country (or its foreign ruler's Queen) is the one that originally imposed this system on us
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Re:Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz by mmmpop on Saturday July 08, 2017 @06:42PM (#14727545)
Maybe if every American took a thermodynamics course where the teacher insisted on memorizing the unit conversions we would not have this issue! What an awful semester...
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