It generalizes the people/region way too much, and selectively.
Good/Positive stories refer to the region in a generalized way, while the negative ones can get really specific, even though it is prevalent in more than one country.
It's much easier to be actually honest. When you lie you have to keep track of your lies, otherwise you might slip up and get caught. It can become a huge mental burden if you're lying all the time and juggling many different stories with different people.
When you're honest, on the other hand, it's easy most of the time because you just tell people what you know to be true.
I mean I suppose if you're maintaining like wildly different identities. In general though it's not any different than remembering which stories and anecdotes you've already told people, besides which most people just don't really care to delve into inconsistencies in each other chalking it up to fallible memory on one or the other parties.
> you have to keep track of your lies, otherwise you might slip up and get caught
I wish that were the case, but it isn't. There are many other strategies for avoiding the negative consequences of lying that scale better. Society is really, really bad at holding liars accountable. Just look at President Trump -- or a couple of rungs up your corporate hierarchy.
It's not. You're free to leave as an H1B at any time, it's just that you have to leave the country also (or find a new job really fast). It sucks for employees, and it has negative effects on the job market, so there are many good reasons to kill it with fire - but no, it's not indentured servitude, and people who choose this, choose it of their own free will, and can withdraw that decision (and be back to where they were when they made it) at any moment.
Of course it's not literally slavery or indentured servitude, but it does share some common elements that are useful for our analysis. In particular, they both involve voluntary commiting yourself to restrictive labor in exchange for coming to the US.
Specifically in 1973 the US economy was 16.4 times larger than India and 10.3 times larger than China.
Today the US economy is about 7.6 times larger than India and 0.5 times larger than China.
India's economy was equivalent to ~$500 billion in 1973, inflation adjusted to today's dollar (per the US Govt figures). That would be good enough for 25th or so globally, behind Belgium. Not tiny per se, definitely small for what India's market is capable of. They're of course 7th now in national GDP, set to overtake France and the UK this year and move into the 5th spot behind Germany.
Except that Blaze/Bazel share code, are very similar and converging over time. The plan is for Google to use Bazel+extensions at some point in the future. Borg and Kubernetes don't share code (they are written in different languages: C++ and Go), look similar only from a very high level perspective and are diverging over time.
It was a wonderful class! When I took it, the class sessions were basically open problem solving sessions involving said advance data structures. Apparently, the class leads to at least 2 or 3 published papers whenever its held.
edit: Did not expect downvotes on this. Curious why