Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023

• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You really want to argue the standard for communication information should be based on the most ignorant and unmotivated people?

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    looks like you answered your own question there bud

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    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t know… I can’t answer what you’re trying to argue. That’s your hill to defend if you want to.

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• scholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    at that point what’s the difference?

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I guarantee you that most people still don’t know what a terabyte is. gigabytes, probably…

        anyway all I’m saying is that a headlines goal is to reach and be understood by as many people as possible so obviously they’re not going to use something that nobody knows, like exa, peta, and terabytes.
        I think most people have a general feeling for how much a megabyte is because most of the things that we deal with are sized in megabytes.

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