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Could you provide some source about Google selling your data to ad networks? Because Google explicitly says that they don’t do that and none of the fines received by Google is for selling your data. I’m curious to read about this.

It’s indeed a lot more likely that LyricFind, from whom Google buys the content, scrapes the lyrics.

Why risk showing stolen content when you are already paying for them?

I understand that Genius focuses on Google though. That makes the story a lot more interesting for publications like WSJ that have a bit of a anti-Google campaign going on.

Can you substantiate any of what you present as facts with actual sources?

They don't (sell your data directly), explained by Google itself https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/

Of course it's up to you how much you trust what they write there.

> stove-top coffee pot

If you like burnt and bitter coffee. The Moka pot company, Bialetti, is in fact struggling, partly because there are just so many better ways of producing coffee. The Moka pot had its time, but nowadays people know that pushing (> 100 degree) boiling water through coffee grounds just doesn’t produce a great cup of coffee. It’s a pretty device though.

The low-level nature of C++ (and also C) makes data races unavoidably undefined behavior. Imagine a data race that causes a torn write on a pointer. This pointer could now point pretty much anywhere. The function stack, some vtable, program data, etc. Any write to that dereferenced pointer will alter the state of your program in such a way that the behavior of your program will become undefined. There would be no way for C++ to guarantee any kind of defined behavior when you can write to arbitrary locations in memory.

The entire presentation, and the look of the glasses reminds me of the quite dystopian short Movie 'More': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk

> You could give millions or billions to TomTom, which is what Apple has been doing, or you could pour the same amounts into creating your own datasets, allowing you to do a lot more than navigation, i.e. anything.

It is rumored that TomTom and Apple have a data deal. Apple gets maps from TomTom (for free, or a strongly reduced price), TomTom gets Apple maps user location data which they use for their traffic service.

How the deal works exactly isn't known (financial details are not public). But it's quite clear Apple doesn't pay a lot to make use of or improve TomTom maps.

Question, asked on HN because others might be interested in the answer as well. Since you did not explicitly mention it in your post and I could not find this on your website either, I was wondering if you only hire locally (i.e. US) or are H1Bs welcome too?