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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory? (lemm.ee)
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[–] Witchfire 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

12 bits to an eagle

27 eagles to a liberty (changes whenever an amendment is added)

1776 liberties to a freedom

Computers are still programmed in bytes, but filesize is always in freedoms.

[–] quinkin 6 points 7 months ago

Perhaps bandwidth could be calculated around the fire rate of an AR15?