[iknight]

"If the people with the greatest innate love of and aptitude for programming are evenly distributed among the world's population, 95% of them are born outside the US."

care to back up that anecdote?

[dvanduzer]

This is not an anecdote, it is a simple application of syllogism. 95% of the world's population is born outside the US.

[georganos]

US population is ~5% of the world population?

[rhema]

300 millionish * 20 = 6 bil. Pretty close.