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by nikkwong 2y ago
The cup itself may be aluminum, but there is a plastic lining on the inside of the cup and on the inside of the lid that keeps the coffee from coming into direct contact with the aluminum--just like in canned foods
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by nikkwong 2y ago
The correct answer is that there is no "you". Continuity in consciousness is an illusion that can be deconstructed through deep enough meditation, or more accessibly through psychedelics. It certainly feels like there is as "
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by nikkwong 2y ago
To chime in on the litany of reasons why this is not a good idea--sifting boiling water through plastic is not safe for consumption as plastic nano and micro-particles will leech from the plastic into the liquid. This happens by design
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by nikkwong 2y ago
This is cool, but still looks painfully low level. A library one level above this would be the sweet spot that would allow people to build killer stuff on top of. (Sort of like what OPs are doing)
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I think it may be harder than you're leading on. Figma has put an awful lot of work into it's vector rendering system. They have state of the art compositing, strokes, fills, shadows, and importantly boolean operations on vectors
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by nikkwong 2y ago
A pivot that I would be really interested in if you guys were so inclined would be open sourcing the rendering engine you've built. There is a lot of demand for Figma's close-sourced rendering engine to build tons of different typ
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by nikkwong 2y ago
*Another tip is to stay in the sun. The data on sun exposure has largely reversed over the last decade; sun exposure is positively correlated with improved health outcomes, but should be done in moderation as to prevent skin issues.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yeah, hooks totally suck—no question about it. There simply aren't other facets of other front end or back end frameworks that are so widely criticized to the same level that hooks are. Which means they're at best controversial, a
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Every time a political topic crosses the front page of HN, it receives a plethora of attention and the debate is constructive and informative. These threads are some of my favorite, but I can understand why other HN users have no interest a
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I want a HN for politics, but that's just me I guess—because I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
My problem is more-so with the individuals with no ailments who have been lulled into believing that marijuana is benign or even something that can act to enhance cognitive performance. We have a lot of scientific evidence to the contrary,
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Saying they “remain productive” shouldn’t ring in as an endorsement. We don’t have the counterfactual to know how much more impressive they would be otherwise.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yeah, this is super interesting. The obvious follow up for me is what implication this desynchronization has on cognition. People who have done a lot of psilocybin tend to be quite a bit 'different' at least in my experience—they
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by nikkwong 2y ago
It also has no curvature tool, which is a huge deal breaker for many vector artists. I have been making a stink about this online across many platforms for years but the team has shown no intention to adopt it.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
This is a great example of a site that is built with React where HTML/CSS would be a more appropriate choice
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yeah, I agree with your assessment here. The statement "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is a bit hyperbolic given all of the nuances introduced. But, still, at the end of the day, clinical recommendations have to
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Yes. There was a 60 minutes episode that went into pretty deep detail on the different types of attacks that have been attempted since 9/11; most of which the NSA and/or the FBI were involved in thwarting. There was a very high pr
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by nikkwong 2y ago
The US government needs to prosecute actors who infiltrate secure systems with the aim to leak state secrets as a way to prevent this type of behavior from happening in the future. Say what you want; even if the premise of leaking is seekin
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Good to know! I hadn't considered that.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Is anyone else here surprised that the reaction to him being free is so overwhelmingly positive? Assange certainly did great work to reveal government corruption and abuses of power. At the same time, some state secrets are best kept secret
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by nikkwong 2y ago
The first paper is not making the claim that eating breakfast is unhealthy—just that you don't want to eat right as you wake up. These are different things. The second paper references two different studies where, when people at more t
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I was incredibly disgusted to learn that to open a HEIC image on Windows, I would have to download an officially sponsored extension from the Microsoft Store that costs $1. Like.. wow; what's next? Pay to play for other new media forma
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by nikkwong 2y ago
See my comment above
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by nikkwong 2y ago
See my comment above
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Anecdata is interesting but it is not actual data :-)
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Your claim is in direct contradiction to the current state of the literature. The scientific community is in consensus around the fact that late meal timing is damaging to metabolic health. Meal timing should be aligned to the body's c
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by nikkwong 2y ago
It's a metabolic fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What consumers are marketed to consume for breakfast is another story.
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by nikkwong 2y ago
That's totally true and something I don't know the answer to. But it's interesting to ponder if the experience of consciousness is the same for each individual. We believe that consciousness is possibly an emergent phenomena
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by nikkwong 2y ago
Well—there's a thought experiment of something like a 'dark universe'—a universe devoid of conscious observers, with the absence of awareness and perception while the physical processes continue unabated just as ours does wit
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by nikkwong 2y ago
I think you're over complicating it. When people generally talk about consciousness, they're talking about the phenomenology of awareness in the present moment. It's not really hard to define. It's difficult to establish

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