Pedro Gomes
@pedrouid
Never underestimate how easy it is to adopt bad standards 😅 Just look at the calendar that we all use globally without questioning it 📆 And that’s only one example of a bad standard being widely adopted 🌍
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preegee.eth
@preegee
We can't even agree on which side of the road we should drive on 😦
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Mikko
@moo
Now, let me tell you about ERC-20...
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Joe Toledano
@joetoledano
It's interesting to think about the implications of abandoning a 24 hour day system, apparently that started with the Egyptians.
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jam
@consistncy.eth
how is the calendar a bad standard?
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Ludo Landry
@ludo
Ok, lets do this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-11/the-death-and-life-of-the-13-month-calendar (and get Americans to switch to the metric system while we are at it.)
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Leo
@lsn
Worse is better https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
yeah, totally! - then "path dependence" kicks in an completely overrides whatever value a higher quality alternative can provide. (QWERTY...a bit of an obvious one, but damn, I'm never gonna learn another better keyboard layout even though I know they exist). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence
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