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More selfish than a regular corporation actually: they act like they have no reputation or long term future to protect.
Brazilian law is actually a very precedent-heavy system, more so than common law systems, and applies precedents more mechanistically than common law systems. It is an interesting example of precedent system in civil law.
However there is some other civil law jurisdictions that imported the officer of the court principle from common law.
It's beyond fair use, it's statutory exemption to copyright and data protection in certain jurisdictions.
AI training is considered inalienable right in certain jurisdictions.
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:23AM (#50284866)
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1948078/c... shows the situation even better.

And, StackExchange has adjusted stale/inactive question deletion scripts as a result of this change: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/419988/we-ve-rework...

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:32PM (#50279579)
More like one huge waferscaler such as Cerebras.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:14PM (#50278375)
Where are Gemini 4 Nitrogen and Gemini 4 Azote?
Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:29AM (#50084253)
> One of the nice quirks of USA justice system is that you don't have to be guilty of a crime to go to prison, just that the prosecution has to convince 12 people beyond reasonable doubt that you are guilty.

You can similarly convince the same people that you are not guilty.

Re:What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:59AM (#50068705)
The GitHub explicitly says it's 0.x.
Couldn't they do a neighbourhood level newspaper?
*required, not allowed
Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:03AM (#49961187)
Elecricianing is soon to be obsolete, but electrical engineering with electrician's skills added on top (not EE alone) is going to survive for a bit longer.
Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:01PM (#49947737)
As if USA doesn't have a sales tax.
Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:59PM (#49947722)
And you can talk to subagent too
Re:DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:50PM (#49947637)
Core exposes well defined extension seams, you don't need to patvh those core plugins at all.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:10AM (#49932176)
Answer and propaganda engine
Re:Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:09AM (#49893609)
More like the phone is your mandatory tender.
Re:Video CDs Break Windows Explorer on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:16AM (#49889858)
more like /dev/random
Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:16PM (#49848078)
Yeah, a "hang up today, come back in tomorrow" scheme is perfectly viable.
Re:Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:13AM (#49826517)
They actually recongised Mullvad-type VPNs as UC-2 in the ETSI EN 304 620 VPN standard.
Re:Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:10AM (#49826504)
Looks like an UC-3 VPN working in multi-hop, not a true UC-7 VPN.
Oh you mean the -Wall -Werror crowd.
An adaptation of PEPPOL (also XML, but at least standardised)?
Re:Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:55AM (#49583453)
Corporations are just groups of people working under a common name towards a common goal, even when that goal is flimsy or bad.
> the ads can change based on who is looking (clean ads for Google! Not for you!).

How is that even allowed?

Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:31AM (#49490220)
You meant X Holdings...
Re:ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:58AM (#49407480)
Aren't OEIS entries immutable?
A source code listing in a book/binder is a customary way of distributing software, albeit historic.

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