On: If I Had a Hammer

[bertil]

With one billion brain interested, he can still train 50 million (actual retention numbers are closer to 5%) new people every semester. That’s still a lot more than the Ivy league.

As to Friedman… Well, this is HN, a polite society, so let me skip that part.

[ChristianMarks → bertil]

OK 50 million. Friedman still stands corrected. (Me too, but at least my percentages are within the same order of magnitude.)