Lounge-appropriate observation. I have started reading the certificates that come with things I buy that have nothing to do with any of this, and the standard elsewhere is lower than I expected. I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.
On the subject in the title: Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together — one year on Working notes rather than a conclusion.
Two things I would like separated before anyone answers on Units, because they get bundled and then argued about as one thing.
The first is descriptive: what has actually been observed, by whom, and how. The second is causal: why. I am asking about the first only.
Lounge-appropriate observation. I have started reading the certificates that come with things I buy that have nothing to do with any of this, and the standard elsewhere is lower than I expected.
I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.
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