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		igouy 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualize... "… the US National Weather Service (NWS) uses the Celsius scale internally and when communicating with other scientific agencies, but converts temperatures to Fahrenheit when releasing data to the general public." Kind-of funny; kind-of sad. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...

jbaber 6 months ago [–]

What's sad about scientists reporting in units practical for their audience?

Should the label on a cookie say 836,800 J?

mbs159 6 months ago | [–]

Of course not, you'd have to label as 837 kJ

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