watchin a crypto boom and a macro collapse fighting it out like

Hundreds of replies, but almost never a single one even hinting at the real right way to choose, the way that languages themselves choose what words to use, for all words in the language, when multiple synonyms are available
(And no, it’s not because 0 and 100 are easy to remember. No)

= more frequently used words must be shorter, both in writing and in speaking
= for units, the unit system where it is shortest to write / say a certain range of numbers to sufficient accuracy, will win when talking about numbers in that range
= For ~0-200 F, Fahrenheit dominates, always speakable in fewer syllables, so Fahrenheit wins for that range.
Linguistic parsimony / Maximum efficiency
Try to find a single paper that ever spells this out though.
Big C silencing the scientists?

tbf it did exist long before bitcoin.
Was called liberty reserve and got absolutely reckt
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