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Worst part about moving to the US has been not being able to fit my US letter documents into a A4 document folder. Sorry Americans, like Fahrenheit, you've got it wrong. A4 is the superior paper size.
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James touched on it, but essentially it maps temperatures we encounter most often over a more useful numeric range.
How often do you encounter 0 Fahrenheit? Growing up, in the winter it gets below 0C and you know there’s going to be ice outside. In the summer it gets to ~50F.
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I also really hate when people conflate units like grams and meters with Celsius. The metric system's main value for humans is that things like kilometers scale easily from things like meters. That entire concept doesn't apply to Celsius.
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What's special about the "freezing and boiling point of water"? People act like those temperatures are critical values to encode in 0-100 scale. But why?!
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I grew up in Minnesota. 0 Fahrenheit was every winter! Also consider wind chill.
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Can we at least agree that US letter is a bad standard?
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No idea. Growing up in Australia we never had a thermostat.
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“Most places in the world stay within that range 90% of the year” I’ll take unsubstantiated claims for 100, Alex.
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Growing up in Boston, like at least 1/3 of the year hah.
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