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by erik-g 9y ago
There are ligatures in fixed-width fonts[0], like VSCode with the Fira Code font! I've been using it for a week or two now and like it so far. [0] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821446
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by erik-g 9y ago
There are a lot of comments about smoking more to make up for reduced nicotine levels, but this is a little bit misguided. Keep in mind the time it takes to consume nicotine. If you have a 5-minute smoke break at work you can't hang ou
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by erik-g 9y ago
From the announcement: "Importantly, the anticipated new enforcement policy will not affect any current requirements for cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, only the newly-regulated tobacco products such as cigars and e-cigarettes."
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by erik-g 9y ago
That's fair, but when I shop I don't buy food with just one meal in mind. Sure, at home maybe I'll have a bit less onion one day then I would prefer because I used half of it the night before, but storing excess in the fridge
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by erik-g 9y ago
You don't _have_ to shop on Amazon. But I feel like being a cognizant consumer is your own responsibility. By that I mean I don't have to cross-reference with 8 other sites, I feel like the prices are fair, and as best I can tell
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by erik-g 9y ago
How does meal-kit distribution eliminate a lot of food waste?
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by erik-g 9y ago
You'd need, like, electronic locks to randomize the unlock code or something. Seems like a reasonable way to keep people from stealing. As-is they just gave everyone an umbrella that only they could unlock!
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by erik-g 9y ago
Well some people don't have a few hundred dollars to drop on a new phone when they need one. At that point you're at the whim of the carrier anyways.
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by erik-g 9y ago
Glad that worked out for you! Highly dependent on circumstances, though. I have a 30 minute _drive_ to get to my office, and it's supposed to be 117 degrees next Monday. Walking is pretty impractical in Phoenix in general, and the publ
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by erik-g 9y ago
That's true, but you can see if any of your FB friends are also using the same service! 'Importing' isn't ok, but verifying via API is ok.[0] [0]: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/
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by erik-g 9y ago
I mean, I really want us as a country to follow the agreement, but not so badly that I want to dissolve the entirety of the United States and legally unravel our entire country over it. This, IMO, is not Civil War-worthy.
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by erik-g 9y ago
Because states can't leave the Union.
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by erik-g 9y ago
I had one on infini-loan from a non-fidgety coworker, but then I changed desks. I didn't want to outright steal their spinner so I've gone back to playing with pens. Haven't yet felt the need to go buy a spinner, pens fill th
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by erik-g 9y ago
They exploded in to popularity at my office. And if my coworkers are all about the spinners they are def no longer cool.
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by erik-g 9y ago
So, if we assume that the dinosaur has 1 billion base pairs in its genome (huge assumption, see my other comment), it has degraded over 110 million years with a half life of 512 years, there is functionally 0 base pairs left[1] in each dna
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by erik-g 9y ago
How would you know where to align the sequences? I am not an evolutionary biologist so maybe one of those people have a "yes, actually!", but consider modern descendants of dinosaurs have 1 billion base pairs and 20,000-23,000 gen
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by erik-g 9y ago
For something that's expected to sell for over $10m, I doubt they figured one internet article would surely help sell it. I'm fairly confident anyone who seriously wants to buy one of these already knows it's up for auction.