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Short technical note: I've been using Mercurial for my personal projects, but in succumbing to community momentum (and really, a much better submodule/svn:externals story) I'm switching over to Git. For some reason hg2git converters are many and generally broken. I tried a bunch, but few of them built/worked. The one that finally did is Antono's hg2git.

Distributed version control is one of these secret stories going on in the land of programmers that needs to get out into the imagination of the population.

In short, your next 'wiki' for public consumption and benefit, should maybe be hosted at GitHub.

For those worried about all the debt the past stimulus and another much-needed stimulus would incur, let's do some 3rd grade math:

10% unemployment is about 4% more unemployment than is 'average.'
4% of the US population is 14 million people (of 350mil) that seemed capable of contributing to our economy a little more than a year ago.
Now from the other end, let's think in units of 100 BILLION dollars (scary!)

That means if we manage to get an average of $7142 (100bil/14mil) of tax revenue per 100bil of stimulus from these individuals over the whole course of the would-have-been-worse recession, then...it's worth it. Considering the tax rate... that looks pretty easy, and not even a very difficult loss if we're wrong.

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