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Cariyaga comments on Open Thread, Jun. 1 - Jun. 7, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2015 04:03:23PM 2 points [-]

Names/EmailAddresses/Phone numbers of people can be useful. Both by drawing information from my contact book but also in the way https://rapportive.com/ works.

Unit conversion would be interesting. If someone writes the price of 5£ however over that price to see the conversion to Euro and dollar would be useful.

Whenever I read temperature noted in °F, I would appreciate being able to hover over it to see a conversion into the sensible format of °C. The same goes for units like inches. When I read a time noted in EST I would like automatic conversion into GMT+1 with happens to be where I live.

Comment author: Cariyaga 02 June 2015 07:32:52AM 0 points [-]

This would also help those of us that were raised with the imperial rather than metric system acclimate to their usage in approximating values.