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Because it would affect rich folks more, so they spend some money now to convince lawmakers not to charge them more later.

Mum as in quiet is uncommon but not unheard of in the us. Probably more common than mum for mother, anyway.

"Mum's the word"

A progressive tax that means the biggest users pay the most would probably be ideal (but then that's mostly true in every situation)

Honestly for me it has much better synching. It took a little work to move everything over, but far less than I anticipated.

There's a video service my therapist uses that refuses to run in Firefox. I expect it probably could, but it's a lot less work to just launch chrome for that one use case.

I'll totally make that argument for a lot of rap and hip hop. But I don't make sweeping generalizations that it's all of it, because it's not and there is some of either that I enjoy, so...

I think the first season was pretty excellent. The mystique disappeared a little bit after that, which definitely changed how the episodes felt going forward, but it was still good

It's also a decent writer's room brainstorm kind of tool, although it can't really get beyond the initial pitch as it's pretty terrible at staying consistent when trying to clean up ideas.

Are those "best matches" paper-sized, or snippet-sized?

Sorry, in what way is that like this? Like, she put up flyers to advertise her porn after she got sued by the government for advertising porn?

The original comment in this thread was about how the article lists the capacity of this experimental disk in bits, and posited that bytes are the usual unit to use.

The next comment was about how networks are measured in bits.

So my replies since then have been about two points, first that bits are still inappropriate to use here even if networks use them, and second that networks use bits per second, which is a different unit than bits.

That's kind of like saying kilometers are measured in kilometers per hour, but a drag strip is a quarter mile

It's more like saying speed is measured in kilometers per hour rather than kilometers (point 2) while also saying that the country we're talking about measures distance in miles usually (point 1).

Storage are measured in bytes because data are stored in that form, with an individual bit being meaningless but a single byte often being significant. Network throughputs are measured in bits per second because the time-density of data is the significant thing there, not the total number of bytes transmitted.

There are 8 bits in a byte and there are 9 degrees Rankine in every 5 degrees Celsius, but if I told you the temperature for tomorrow in degrees Rankine, you would still think me weird for saying it that way and you might wonder what I was hiding.

There are almost always dozens of units we could use to describe something, but it's okay to call it out when someone says something unusually as the original headline did.