While it's true that a high price doesn't guarantee quality, the opposite is almost universal: cheap means lack of quality. Cashmere, e.g., is rare and hence expensive. High quality workmanship is expensive. It's like anything else in life.
As for the original shirts, they are hideous. The guy...
Where to start? And with what religion? The mere belief in an entity you can't see or touch amazes me. Following the holy scriptures is a big irrational decision. Just open your respective book (bible, new testament, quran) and you'll see dozens of meaningless directives. I'm not an expert on...
That's true, but I still believe that fighting poverty will get the job done. I'm no psychoanalyst, but my common sense tells me that when you're on top of the world, you don't want to go around shaking its foundations. If I grew up hearing stories of western oppression but saw nothing but...
How about adopting a more complex view which does away with the naughty-nice lists? I'd rather think of it in a cost-vs-benefit way. Every religion incurs "costs" because you pay for it in individualism, in personal rights, tolerance and so forth, making society more susceptible to manipulation...
That's too naive of you. Do you think Muslims who want to understand what Jihad means Google it? Every word and every punctuation mark in the Quran have centuries of interpretations added to them in thick, unintelligible layers, incomprehensible to any outsider or non-expert. Same thing with...
I'm not a big fan of Griffiths, but his "Electrodynamics" text has a pretty good derivation of it in chapter 10 - self contained and quite intuitive.
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You should've mentioned Stalin who was a pronounced atheist and mass murderer. But hey, I didn't say religion was the only thing that could go wrong with a country :smile:.
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Was that directed towards me?
I didn't really follow your "Moses-Jesus-Mohammad" reasoning either. What were you trying to say?
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Interesting. Proper disclosure: I'm an Israeli, and while I'm an atheist I'm considered (being born to a Jewish mother) a Jew.
There are Jewish, Muslim and Christian Israelis, and I've met more than a few of each. For obvious reasons I don't come into contact with Arab Muslims because of our...
Amazing solution, thanks for sharing it.
So is squaring the "connections matrix A" a common trick in graph theory? What sort of things can you learn from it?
In terms of danger to living beings, high voltage isn't intrinsically dangerous. A Van de Graaff generator can easily create potential difference of thousands of volts and more, and yet is safe (although I wouldn't want to touch a charged one!). It's the power (P=I^2*R=V^2/R) that fries you if...
Argh, the suspense ... can you ask the person who gave you this question? I've got to know the answer! :smile:
I've tried googling the problem but all I could find is Ramsey theory, which is definitely not what we're looking at.
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Curses, you've infected me with this now too! :smile:
I'm not sure how to solve it, but here's a thought.
Say there are N people.
Pick a person X. X knows 22 people and doesn't know M people.
Note that M+22+1=N.
Let's call the group of people X knows A (having 22 members), and the group of...