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@Synclair To some people, he can't do any right. He could walk on water and cure cancer and someone would accuse him of taking doctor's jobs away.

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> I think about as many people actually believed in Pizzagate as believed in Flat Earth.

Except
Pizzagate
was
real.

In the last few minutes I've come to realize two things.

1. I'm pretty bad at Dr. Mario.

2. Dr. Mario is probably the most accurate representation of modern medicine available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-aUBj7SGqk

Youtube goes utterly insane and admits it will ban more people than normal for no legitimate reason due to coronavirus. No, that is not an exaggeration. #Coronavirus #Youtube

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> No, MB now means 1 million bytes.

It means whatever I intend it to mean when I use the word. If I intend to convey 1024 bytes, I say "1kB". Some committee somewhere decides to change what I mean when I speak and they can go fuck themselves. Fuck the police, double-fuck the language police.

> So, 256 MB now means

No, it does not.

If I say "racism", I mean a prejudice based on race. Racism didn't start meaning "power plus prejudice" just because someone decided it. If I hear a foreigner say "yankee", I take it to mean "American". If I hear a southerner say "yankee", I take it to mean "Northerner" (or, since I've been called that plenty of times, probably more like "Non-Southerner"). If I hear a Northerner use it, I guess that's ambiguous, but that's natural language for you.

This is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to language. Everything that you learn about language as a kid is prescriptive, but the way language actually works is that you use a word and the people at the OED write down what people mean when they use that word. Prescriptive linguistics stops when you are done with primary education.

> Why did they change the definition and make a new term to mean what the old one used to mean?

They can't change a definition. To do that, they would have to change what people mean when they use a word.

> *B is now powers of 10 in decimal while *iB is powers of 2 in binary.

If that's what you mean when you say it. It's definitely not what I mean.

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