throwaway29

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by throwaway29 11y ago
Most Indians are like that, I've seen that here in Europe too. I attend tech meetups and paper study groups regularly and only friend with people I admire. Race doesn't matter to me. And yes, usually they are not Indian anyway.
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by throwaway29 11y ago
I think you really got to the heart of what I felt! I don't care about the money or any of those things. Anyone who has already spent 8 years on a MS and a PhD probably knows that! What I see is that even in today's MOOC/high
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by throwaway29 11y ago
Any system that can be gamed, will be gamed once demand is more than supply. Maybe 10 years ago, the best and the brightest of Indians/Chinese, who studied at the top US schools would have got their H1B in this 20K advanced-degree quot
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by throwaway29 11y ago
Also, it doesn't help that the O1 visa mentions Nobel Prize and Oscars in its description. Only a handful of non-Americans in the world would qualify in any given year going by these qualifications.
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by throwaway29 11y ago
I accept that I should have elaborated my point by using better words than shit. I am from a small town in India and my family was lower middle class. My parents burnt up all they had just to pay for my Bachelor degree. That is the reason I
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by throwaway29 11y ago
Even the advanced degree route is fully gamed by mediocre Indian students. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10540365
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by throwaway29 11y ago
Indian here who topped his university CS bachelor degree. 95% of my class (in a #1 state university) cheated their way through exams and don't give a shit about the beauty of algorithms or programming. Today almost all of my classmates