sridhar_vembu

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   by sridhar_vembu 14y ago

   I have to call bullshit on this one. Most of us here, supposedly "conscientious" people, can trace our being here (in the existential sense of "being") to some ancestor with "low consciousness". Birthrates are falling rapidly around the wor
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   by sridhar_vembu 14y ago

   Please send me mail svembu at google's email.
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   by sridhar_vembu 14y ago

   Let me be clear: I don't think there's anything wrong with this vision. This approach would probably be a success. It may be needed. The problem is this: somehow we mutated universities into a place where everyone goes in order to get a jo
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   by sridhar_vembu 14y ago

   In a chapter titled “What College Could Be Like,” Mr. Khan conjures an image of a new campus in Silicon Valley where students would spend their days working on internships and projects with mentors, and would continue their education with
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   by sridhar_vembu 15y ago

   Standard of living is going up, but quality of life is definitely declining in major cities. There is a lot more money (even after adjusting for inflation) so the purchasing power has increased tremendously. There is a much richer variety o
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   by sridhar_vembu 15y ago

   This is a great post - "moral suffering" exactly captures the feeling I have as an educated and affluent Indian. Yet, I keep going back, keep doing more in India. I have thought about this quite a bit, and here is an interlocking set of pro