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I really like this book as well. It would be my first recommendation to any meditator, new or experienced.

I installed Mint 17.3 Cinnamon a couple weeks ago. Every time I've installed a Linux distro in the past 10 years, I have run into major issues with drivers, and this was no exception. It's related to having both an onboard Intel graphics card and an Nvidia video card. If I disable the Nvidia card, performance is fine but I am unable to hookup a second monitor. If I use the Nvidia card, I can hook up a second monitor, but there are major issues with screen tearing. If not for this issue, I would be quite satisfied with this OS.

I am curious, could someone link to the most objectionable content by Curtis Yarvin? I don't think prohibiting someone from speaking at a private tech conference due to offensive views is necessarily a bad thing (e.g. prohibiting a KKK member from speaking), however without seeing his objectionable content I don't know if it's appropriate in this circumstance.

Alex Miller said he made his decision without reading any of Curtis's content, and I don't think that's a good idea. Otherwise any group loud enough could get anyone blocked from speaking, regardless of whether they did anything wrong.

Very cool.

Does anyone else experience an optical illusion where it appears their screen is moving when they finish a song/leave the page?

The lack of inherent existence of the cloud seems to be the most logical solution to this problem. Although the cloud has no inherent existence, if we look at the same spot in the sky, I have a perception of a cloud, and you have a perception of a cloud. Our perceptions are not the same, and when we get to the edges of the cloud the boundaries we perceive are highly likely to differ. Nevertheless, because our perceptions have so much in common, I can say "that cloud" to you will know what I am talking about. Your perception will still differ from mine, especially along the borders of the cloud, but the differences in perception are not likely to be important for the sake of our discussion. The author's rebuttal in paragraph 3 of the Nihilism section looks weak to me.

Thanks so much for your insightful post.

I was working through the first couple of chapters in Spivak's Calculus recently, and was struck by 1) what a great book it was, and 2) what a time commitment it would take to complete it properly! If I could choose a book to take to a tropical island for a year, Spivak might be it. But is it worth spending hundreds of hours working through Spivak and Pugh from the standpoint of developing a professional skill? For someone like OP already out of college and wanting to learn to think mathematically to apply it to programming/electronics, is working through these books as a basis to pursue further mathematical studies overkill? Or worth it?

2004 / age 14 I discovered an exploit on the GameFAQs message boards that allowed me to use HTML in topic titles. I just used this to post some topics with images as titles, instead of looking for SQL injections.

That same year I obtained every student's social security number from my school's database, though I didn't write them down. I never told the school about their massive security flaw because I was afraid I would get in trouble.