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1qaz2wsx··on Twitter confesses to more adtech leaks
unfortunately "selling your data" is why your 401k has been growing for last few years. it is not going to stop unless regulated by governments and tweaked over time as loopholes in those regulations are found (or added via lobbying). my take is, it is not going to stop, just kept in a pseudo check due to public awareness.
1qaz2wsx··on Brave files adtech complaint against Google
Isn't Brave using the blink engine from Chrome - which was funded by Google based on the ad revenues?

The BAT grant is just Brave burning VC money to get some market share and eventually some pie of the Adtech eco-system?

Also, not sure how ad fraud is relevant here or how Brave will prevent it?

1qaz2wsx··on Why Rust closures are somewhat hard
+1. As a C++ developer with decade of experience, I'm finding Rust hard. It is a truly innovative language with a rising ecosystem that makes life of developers easier in a lot of areas. But overall the safety and performance benefits do not seem to be worth the effort if you just want to get things done. My thinking is, if you are smart enough to master Rust, and you do need tight control of memory that GC overhead is not worth it, you are probably smart enough to write safer C++.
1qaz2wsx··on Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering
have people considered this may eventually lead to Google acquiring Uber? There is the advising CEO Travis Kalanick bit in there.