MikemkPK t1_j627sry wrote on January 27, 2023 at 4:34 AM

Reply to comment by Spicy_Cum_Lord in TIL to decide what measurement system America should use, John Quincy Adams took 3 1/2 years to produce a 268 page Report on Weights and Measures that ultimately concluded changing to the French metric system would be too difficult for the young nation. Congress took no action on the report. by iamveryDerp

No, I'm giving a situation where converting in your head is useful. Say you see an ad for a 4000 sq ft house on 0.1 acre, being able to convert lets you know it's not worth the time to look at.

MikemkPK t1_j61v5o2 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 2:52 AM

Reply to comment by Spicy_Cum_Lord in TIL to decide what measurement system America should use, John Quincy Adams took 3 1/2 years to produce a 268 page Report on Weights and Measures that ultimately concluded changing to the French metric system would be too difficult for the young nation. Congress took no action on the report. by iamveryDerp

When buying real estate. Houses are measured in square feet, the land they're on in acres.

MikemkPK t1_iujwnjt wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:58 PM

Reply to How will AIRBNB close following their Earnings Report on November 1? by ThetaGang_wsb

-12.4% isn't very red?

MikemkPK t1_iu4pd6w wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:09 PM

Reply to comment by SFF_Robot in TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet

Good bot

MikemkPK t1_irzf9np wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:30 AM

Reply to comment by JayGold in TIL that all Shiba Inu alive today are descended from one single Shiba, "Ishi," born in 1930. by Tsujimoto74

No. If you breed together A & B to get C, you can just do that a few dozen or hundreds of times to get the gene population without resorting to incest. If the new desired breed doesn't happen every time, simply don't allow that line to reproduce again.