alt Hacker Newsokay, but what advantages do these rules bring to the winner? what would these look like in this context?
i guess what i'm asking is: what was the practical advantage of ascii or feet and knots that made them so important?
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>what advantages do these rules bring to the winner?
An almost absolute incumbency advantage.
>what was the practical advantage of ascii or feet and knots
Familiarity. Americans and Britons speak English, and they wrote the rules in English. Everyone else after the fact needs to read English or GTFO.
Alternatively, think of it like this: Nvidia was the first to commercialize "AI" with CUDA. Now everyone in "AI" must speak CUDA or be irrelevant.
He who wins first writes the rules, runner-ups and below obey the rules.
This is why America and China are fiercely competing to be the first past the post so one of them will write the rules. This is why Japan and Europe insist they will write the rules, nevermind the fact they aren't even in the race (read: they won't write the rules).
Nautical miles are minutes of latitude and are useful for navigation on the sphere we live on. It’s not some conspiracy for English hegemony despite the previous posters insistence.