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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

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 out for 15 minutes to smoke 3 because each cigarette is less potent. I'm sure there's a better term for it, but smoking isn't a zero sum game, you don't always have the option of increasing the quantity to make up for reduced concentration, if for no other reason than time and financial constraints.

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."

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 and buying with leftovers in mind or multi-use items (bulk bag of carrots) means I have very little excess food waste. Certainly excess food waste is far, far less than packaging material from these companies.

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 I have avoided buying cheap knockoff items. I hear this complaint a lot (here, especially) but have yet to see much evidence of that.

How does meal-kit distribution eliminate a lot of food waste?

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!

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.

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 public transportation is awful. So yes my exercise happens in a dedicated gym.

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/common-scenar...

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.

Because states can't leave the Union.

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 that niche for me nicely.

They exploded in to popularity at my office. And if my coworkers are all about the spinners they are def no longer cool.

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 helix. Even statics can't help much there! I'm wide open to the possibility that I am incredibly wrong in any one of these assumptions however

[1] - http://www.calculator.net/half-life-calculator.html?type=1&n...

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 genes[1], and the fact that we have many many living versions of those fowl to experiment with. Trying to realign chopped up bits of dna with who know how much completely missing, and minimal opportunities to experiment or direct information as to how any particular sequence functions, I can't see any way to extract useful data from highly degraded dna.

More information of degraded dna handling techniques, albeit in the forensics field and aimed toward people, but interesting to me nonetheless [2]

[1] - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7018/full/nature0...

[2] - http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

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.