Can we get back on topic please? This thread is about Gavin's naïve impression that internet bandwidth worldwide is improving over time.
Watching iCE gag and sputter when given a dollop of his own medicine is not gratifying at all, and is a grave insult to the great number of bitcoiners who have suffered brutal and occasionally undeserved surprise secs.
Ok on thread: Maybe Gavin is wrong, stupid and evil, but I do not think that one sentence tells you much of anything. Also the poll is pretty bad.
Case closed?
As for scaling I believe something like 2mb and 20% growth would definitely be safe.
I also believe that even larger blocks would be safe if we developed swarm nodes:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1314482.0