NancyLebovitz comments on P(X = exact value) = 0: Is it really counterintuitive? - Less Wrong
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"I prefer" with a smiley and some mild snark isn't exactly a demand.
In any case, people are entitled to demand whatever they want, they just aren't entitled to get compliance.
Would it be worth having a convention at LW that measurements should be given in English and metric units?
Make the convention the use of the existing International System of Units with other units humored as parochial eccentricities. If folks particularly care they can reply with a conversion to the conventional unit.
The context of other comments and posts by the same user caused me to read it as hostile passive-aggression.
Seems unnecessary. The general convention should be that people are entitled to employ the conventions and terminology in use where they live, or that they themselves are most familiar with. I wouldn't think of demanding that someone in another country talk about their purchasing habits in terms of US dollars, for example.