alt Hacker News> Half of our houses were built 50 years ago
That’s true of everywhere in the world at the time they made the switch (give or take a decade). Why is that a problem unique to America?
> Half of our houses were built 50 years ago
That’s true of everywhere in the world at the time they made the switch (give or take a decade). Why is that a problem unique to America?
Didn't France go metric a few centuries ago? Anyway, I suspect there are at least 10 times as many buildings, and 10000 times as many machines deployed, in 2026 America than the number you'd get by adding every European country's stats at the year they really seriously standardized metric.
You can make a better case that we were fools to not stay the course in the 1970s than a case that we should try it today. Even the 70s seem more like the very tail end of a window. 1776 would have been a great time to do it!