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by jbeales 11y ago
Spotify doesn't require a Facebook account. I am signed up with a regular E-mail/password.
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by jbeales 11y ago
I haven't read the Privacy Policy, but I pulled up the Spotify settings on my iPhone, and the only permission it has is Background App Refresh, (although I'm not sure if movement sensors would appear in the Settings app). Is this
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by jbeales 11y ago
Nitpicking: It can probably be signed, but cannot be ratified. Ratification makes the treaty binding, signing does not, but I imagine it may be very difficult to re-open negotiations after signing.
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by jbeales 11y ago
Found it. Apparently I'm blind. That sounds great, hopefully those predictions actually happen. I've heard of Saltwater batteries before, hopefully they live up to the promise. My grandmother lived off-grid for several years with
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by jbeales 11y ago
So I took a look at those. I can't argue with the Ars article on batteries, although I wonder if it's really worth using Li-Ion batteries for homes when lead-acid is super simple, and I think cheap, (I'm not sure if the acid&
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by jbeales 11y ago
I guess that's legitimate. Let's turn this into a positive. I would love to hear more about how things are improving. Do you have more examples?
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by jbeales 11y ago
Did you read the whole thing? It took a while, but the last couple paragraphs were spent discussing ways things are getting better.
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by jbeales 11y ago
> their system is actually pretty good, though it has a few. Miss a word? > Literally anything you want is possible with code. I came here to say this. Anything is possible with code, (although sometimes the effort is not worth the re
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by jbeales 11y ago
I don't have insight into the decision-making at WordPress, but they probably do this because they want to be compatible with as many web hosts as possible, and so many super-cheap shared hosts just give you a public directory that you
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Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered Off the North Carolina Coast(today.duke.edu)
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by jbeales 11y ago
I'll try to remember to test, then I'll try to remember to post results ;) It'll also be interesting to see drop-off at that point in the funnel - my signup form is a bit of a monster.
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by jbeales 11y ago
I've done this before. When I did it it was a conscious design decision to use price framing[1], so the site has a very expensive product, two mid-priced products, and a free product. It's nice when the very expensive product sell
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by jbeales 11y ago
Internet obit says "a rare form of Group A streptococcal disease" I know she was feeling crappy, enough to head into a hospital late-ish at night, and apparently by that time her kidneys had already shut down. I don't live in
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by jbeales 11y ago
> And to you my friends, smell the flowers while you can. I'm 35, and I've already lost at least 4 friends. Causes of death: Drunk driving, Suicide, Murder, and bacterial infection/dropped dead. The friend with the infecti
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by jbeales 11y ago
It doesn't matter because it won't help much, if at all. The script kiddies are running scripts that check for known files in several popular CMSs, so unless the plugin makes major changes to WP's behaviour, WordPress will st