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by sxzxs 2022 days ago
> as with javascript, Brendan Eich appears to be channeling technology up from the depths of hell. I wonder if he created the prototype in a 10-day fit of a fever dream as well.

This made me laugh! But hyperbole aside, this premise would seem to (by nature of efficient laziness) eventually result in people spam watching ads with bots - despite any ways of preventing this, people will find a way.
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BrendanEich 2021 days ago
All systems with value at stake attract fraud, including paywalls (credit card fraud, obviously; circumvention too). This does not mean we give up and go home. On the contrary, Google and FB take all your data and do strong antifraud work on their native ad-inventory properties. Brave aims to do the same on your device without all that tracking, along with other projects such as https://hcaptcha.com and its protocol foundation, https://www.hmt.ai/.
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sxzxs 2019 days ago
The protocol foundation whitepaper looks like an interesting read - how far along are the open source implementations?

I'm particularly interested in applications of dynamic open-sourced metrics (ranging from corporate carbon footprinting to labour tokenization) - is this the vision for hmt? Only things I've found online so far are Grafana/Prometheus (etc) and Uber's m3, which is built on top of the former. Anything else you know of tackle that topic?

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