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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by veltas on Monday April 19, 2021 @07:28AM (#26861496)
Historically, metric was the thing being pushed.
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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by oblio on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:19AM (#26863011)
The "pushing" isn't the problem.

The nature (good/bad) of the thing being pushed is. The imperial system is objectively inferior since the metric system has been created.

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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by jd842 on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:00PM (#26867288)
It's inferior for some purposes. It's still ideally suited to the purposes for which it naturally evolved in the first place.
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Re:Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digit... by oblio on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:22AM (#26872446)
Even about that, I'm not sure. The metric system is damn good even for day to day measurements.
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