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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by varjag on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:21AM (#17256577)
It is common to see Chinese names in some top tier science publications coming from America. At the same time, the bulk of science coming from mainland China is junk. So there well can be some magic at work. That, or selection.
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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by hyperbovine on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:18PM (#17257236)
There is a massive screening process in both India and China that results in the top fraction of a percentage of students going off to study in the US. Those are the ones who later go on to publish while at US institutions. So yes, there is some signal there.
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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by bhtru on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:36AM (#17256743)
If you can make it in the West you’ll leave your homeland typically. Tech is a sector that often can is merit based so it’s not difficult for foreign engineers to prove their worth and make the migration (relative to other service sector industries).
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Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? by commandlinefan on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:12PM (#17258547)
> merit based

Still, in spite of some concerted efforts to change that...

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