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   by unhba 9mo ago

   There is a real aspect of confession in articles like this one - I mean in the religious sense. They come across to me as attempts to justify decisions or actions in the face of overwhelming internal contradictions where the intended audien
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   by unhba 9mo ago

   Thanks for the clarification I completely mistook what you were saying. This is the fascinating bit for me then, that what’s happening with the moon’s rotation is also happening with everything else
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   by unhba 9mo ago

   Thanks for this explanation. If I understand correctly then, the moon requires some centripetal force in order not to dissipate due to its rotation whereas e.g. my head or the Eiffel Tower do not because they are not subject to absolute rot
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   by unhba 9mo ago

   Yes but from the point of view of the earth the moon does not appear to be rotating around its own axis since it is tidally locked. In that sense it’s confusing to me to distinguish it from everything else on earth but the comment above abo
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   by unhba 9mo ago

   My colleagues once spent a good hour trying to explain this fact to me and I still really struggle to accept it. I can see that the moon is rotating on its own axis from the point of view of a space that is external to the system it forms w
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   by unhba 6y ago

   I work on a shopping assistant type browser extension and I am very confident that if I proposed an architecture and implementation such as the author identifies here I would be turned down immediately: having good intentions around privacy
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   by unhba 6y ago

   Steps have been taken toward making this the norm in Chrome but it’s not clear yet to what degree it will be enforced. Already user can chose on install or at a later time to limit the domains an extension is active on (no matter what permi
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   by unhba 6y ago

   It will be interesting to see how the developers of this extension respond to Google’s roll out of extensions Manifest V3 - the new specification could almost be directly targeting them: with service worker replacing background script there