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Re:Ask HN: Why is bandwidth so expensive? by dozzie on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:22AM (#16966389)
Tech people often cannot also tell the difference between megabytes and millibits, MB and mb, so it's not that surprising.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is bandwidth so expensive? by stephenr on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:28AM (#16966422)
I find that confusion easier to understand. Its often a slightly different prefix or one character case difference.

I think if you always wrote it out as megabytes vs megabits you’d see much fewer incidents of confusion

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