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Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together

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l.trevinoTL2 Moderator15 Mar 2025#1

Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Lower-stakes topic, but the sourcing rule still applies if anyone makes a claim.

Something adjacent that I have been thinking about and that does not belong in any of the technical categories. No question in particular; I am interested in how other people see it.

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owen.bradyTL4 Moderator3 Apr 2025#11

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Picking up post #8: that is the part I would want checked first.

Science communication: if you come across an interesting science paper or article about peptides or metabolism, sharing it and discussing the idea is on-topic.

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mira.patelTL4 Admin23 Apr 2025#26

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Science communication: if you come across an interesting science paper or article about peptides or metabolism, sharing it and discussing the idea is on-topic.

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t.verhoevenTL2 Moderator2 May 2025#34

Lower-stakes conversation that does not belong in the technical categories. Still civil, still sourced when a claim is made, but the bar for relevance is lower.

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r.mwangiTL2 Moderator6 May 2025 · edited#38

Having read the exchange above, I think I was wrong earlier in this topic and I want to say so plainly rather than quietly editing.

The correction was fair and I had been repeating something I had not checked carefully enough.

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c.niemelTL3Regular7 May 2025#39

post #38 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

For anyone arriving from a search: the marked solution above is the direct answer, and the replies underneath it add the caveats that make it safe to use.

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