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A comment on Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system?.

Re:Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system? by haunter on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:27AM (#34356006)
As a European I only get mildly upset when reading US recipes. "1 cup of flour" Just the fact that it's a measure of volume [0] instead of weight is already stupid imo. I pretty much stopped reading recipes where there are no metric units (weight!) provided, preferably in grams.

0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

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Re:Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system? by nycjay on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:44PM (#34357526)
Isn't the gram a unit of mass, not weight?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram

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Re:Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system? by cassianoleal on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:07PM (#34357877)
You are correct.

At the same time, the way we measure mass is by measuring weight and having the balance approximate a conversion. I imagine most balances use sea level gravity for that but I can't be bothered to do research. :D

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Re:Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system? by kyriakos on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:01PM (#34370527)
Makes no difference if cooking on earth though
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