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The Economist makes it particularly hard. Surprisingly low level of ethics for a publication of such repute.

Walk away, please. It's clear that you hate your job. Do it now before you regret it anymore.

Coffee is from Ethiopia. Maybe you're thinking of chocolate.

> Bangladore only

Did you mix up Bangladesh and Bangalore?

Well, I do a lot of good cooking for relatives and friends (as a hobby). I have often thought it would translate well into a food truck business.

Either a chef or a lawyer. Maybe both.

Isn't it usually the Greeks who are claimed to have come up with something, which is then passed down in a long, unbroken chain of Western Civilization to the present day?

Different organizations have different strategies. Looks like yours has a policy of "throwing plaster at the wall, and seeing what sticks".

Can we automate the creation of RTI requests using NLP, and autonomously analyze the results?

Silicon Valley is not exactly a dense city.. It's more a suburb.

Interesting. We always say "darchini" too.

Read!

It honestly doesn't look THAT confusing in the pics.

What is this, the brogrammer's solution to every problem in life?

Hmm, have you tried an online contracting job (https://www.elance.com/)? Maybe get a passport and move to SE Asia, or Latin America, for a fresh environment?

If you want the Chinese to stay, you also need to have a suitable work/entrepreneurship visa policy.

I use it for:

- Informing old friends about so-called "Life Events" - not by actually posting, but by private messages

- Private groups of separate friend circles, mostly for sharing cool news/websites or music

- My facebook newsfeed mostly constitutes local news, international editorial/opinion pieces and lots of pictures of nature stuff which I like. I've unfollowed most people so I don't get their posts.

I don't have a one-stop shop for all the above except facebook, so I think I'll definitely be using it for a while.

I'd rather just die than keep worrying about it.

"Still doin' ma thang".

But it's illegal... in most countries hawala is illegal, and prosecuted under various money laundering laws.

Camel carts/wagons actually do exist (http://www.nomadderwhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dsc_...) and are quite popular in India and Pakistan. In fact, I would say that such is the primary way of using a camel as a load-bearing animal in this region. I think the big difference is, in the Middle East, the caravans had to travel very long distances (for instance, Mecca to Constantinople was a profitable route) over very _diverse_ desert terrain, some of which is probably very unsuitable for carts (mountain passes, loose sand).

Is it possible to build a cheap, distributable kit to test the quality of a newly-laid road? Let me elaborate: in rural economies, the quality of roads has a direct impact on prosperity. Within India, richer states almost always have very good rural roads - helps get produce to market on time, people to hospitals, etc. Unfortunately, road construction is often a corrupt business, and contractors lay poor-quality roads and skim government funds. If we can empower rural communities to effectively do a quality check on the roads laid in their area, it would really help them. They could then file applications under the Right to Information Act to understand why the road was not constructed to mandated quality requirements.

"It is funny to see the construction of Europe, which is arguably the first time in human history that different groups of people willingly tend towards a common political entity" - how about India?

What's the point of anything? Some people value some things. People who don't value those things will never "get it".

Now you know how they felt about the Europeans in the 1700s. ;-)

Sounds eminently blusterous.

Define corruption.

Distance runner here. This may may not seem medically sound, but I have this theory that mental exhaustion and physical exhaustion are inversely proportional to an extent.

Get a dabbawalla

They were actually fairly stable when the US invaded