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More Than A Mile Behind: America and the Metric System

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More Than A Mile Behind: America and the Metric System is a personal blog at milebehind.wordpress.com about history and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2014–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

Updates on by Book in Progress: America's Biggest Miscalculation

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  1. rienbdj · 2019-09-01

    Submitted The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  2. anonymfus · 2022-11-25

    Submitted Baby Formula, the Pandemic, and the Metric System as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. neverminder · 2014-04-06

    Submitted Will the United States REALLY Be the Last Country to Adopt the Metric System? as a story · 1 points

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