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So being a no caste foreigner is better or worse than a low caste? :S I guess it depends on a lot of factors but...

Sorry if this comes as extremely ignorant but how is the caste of a foreigner determined? Let's say I marry an Indian, I must adopt her caste? I have to get... Evaluated? and after…

I went through something similarly during my PhD when my advisor printed the main code of the program that we were going to work on. At first I thought he was kidding (he's a very …

Hey thanks for the suggestion! :) You know, I found Severian to be really interesting as a character. I wanted to see how he turned out and expected a lot of development... But the…

I really _really_ tried to enjoy The Shadow of the Torturer but I couldn't fall into rhythm I guess. As English is my second language, I had to struggle to know if a word was inven…

Hey, do you mind pointing me to some learning material regarding firmware? I have a totally unrelated background (I'm a chemist) although I picked up some coding during my PhD (the…

Cash = USD.

It's a combination of factors but, basically: Populism and its mania with expending more money than what it generates in stupid ways. An obsession from a big part of the society to…

Actually, yeasts are unicellular fungus. I believe that fungus are the most important life-form in this planet by far . Pretty cool, huh? :)