coolj

> in the developing world

cf. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...

> Today, [cloud providers Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, and thirty of the world’s biggest Web hosting companies] announced that they will support Railgun...

I can't find any such announcements; anybody have links? Based on comments further down, I wonder if the author is confused.

> CloudFlare will provide software images for Amazon and RackSpace customers to install

That is very different from the claim in the first paragraph.

Please post the numbers for that box with vanilla (non-parallel) std::sort, on the whole array, as well! I'm curious!

You can use "/statusbar prompt disable" (and "/save" to make it persistent).

To be clear, I wasn't suggesting anyone do anything. I was noting that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License-free_software is open to various interpretations regarding distribution of patches, etc (djb's interpretation being one example).

> The abstract operation Quote(value) wraps a String value in double quotes and escapes characters within it.

It doesn't look like http://es5.github.com/#Quote has anything to do with serializing to JSON string--am I missing something?

That may be true--I'd like to know what specific tax cuts you're referring to. It also looks like it was the 80's when the debt really started growing, according to the numbers in that article. It's true that government spending (as % of GDP) never went back to pre-war levels, and has continued to increase: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#United_Stat...

I don't use this extension, but I just looked at the xpi and crx versions and they are both just javascript, and I didn't find any license mentioned anywhere. So if you believe djb, you can distribute the source + patches until the author explicitly states otherwise.

> But that subsidy must come from somewhere.

It doesn't have to. Sure, subsidies can help the overall economy. But when you're falling off a fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling is rising, and your credit rating has already been downgraded, you have to be careful to take long term eventualities into account. If a significant number of US businesses are relying on government subsidies and programs to be profitable, and that funding dries up, we're gonna have a bad time. Such subsidies and programs are a tiny fraction of US spending, but they are also low-hanging fruit when it comes time for cuts, as compared with military, medicare, and social security spending. Not saying that will happen, but leaning towards austerity may have been a better choice in the long run than trying to "jump start" the economy, especially if we double-dip (knock on wood!). Time will tell. Interestingly, US and UK unemployment rates as of October 2012 are identical at 7.8.

> For every $.20 the widget company gets, some other company is taxed $.20

There are many sectors of government where spending can be reduced to increase available revenue for subsidies or tax cuts. You need taxes, tolls, tariffs, etc to generate absolute government revenue, but subsidies can be carved out of existing budgets without new taxation. The question of the right balance of both taxation and austerity, to maximally benefit the recovery of the economy, in both the short and long-term--that is the real issue. Seems nobody's discovered the magic formula yet.