Human hair is probably easiest to source in quantity, given it is a waste product in hair dressers world wide. Other current uses are wigs, and cleaning oil spills.

Is this just an anecdote, or are you claiming that having a military would somehow reduce the homicide rate? How would this work in practice?

Probably by having the panopticon-effect.

The same way a surveillance camera in every room would also reduce bad behavior...

Only way to achieve that is if people are afraid of these forces and perceive them as effective at policing.

If they're not, nothing will happen.

And considering that the US has the highest murder rate among first world countries, highest incarceration rate and spends the most on the military. Obvious the US is doing something wrong.

> So it sounds like they definitely scraped the content and used it for training, which is legal

It certainly seems legal to train. But the case is about scraping without permission. Does downloading an article from a website, probably violating some small print user agreement in the process, count as distribution or reproduction? I guess the court will decide.

According to the article, they are complaining that the downloaded content had "been used by Perplexity to reproduce the newspaper’s copyrighted articles in responses to user queries." Derived works.

Reproducing articles is not "deriving" anything. It's reproducing.

“Reproduce” in this context reads like “copy/republish”, which would not be a derivative work.

Yes, if it's an exact copy, but I don't know if their system is actually presenting entire articles, or just fragments (copyrightable, perhaps) and perhaps mixing them with other text.

Generally the court practice so far was that if you don't register or login, you never accept the user agreement. If the website is still willing to serve content to non-registred users, you're free to archive it. How you can use it afterwards is a separate question.

I wonder if you can download the copyrighted material without permission though? The article specifically states 'the scraping has been used by Perplexity to reproduce the newspaper’s copyrighted articles in responses to user queries without authorization'. They don't seem to be complaining about the training (legal), but the scraping.

If you don't rewrite the headline to include 'in mice', we have to scroll past pages of people throwing shade on the study by repeating 'in mice', as if this is something new or insightful about how medical research works. Until many readers add the 'therefore not humans' fallacy in their minds.

Keep employees in the short term. After 2 years, employees can retire comfortably. When the salary becomes irrelevant, you can hang around for more beach homes doing what the boss wants and keeping your work proprietary to the company, or quit and do whatever you want and do whatever you want with it.

Or maybe the golden handcuffs are heavier than what the article makes out.

Semiconductors are not fungible. Using US alternatives also means dropping all the AI plans and subsidies, at least on US soil. The big AI data centers would all end up in China, owned and managed by subsidiaries and leased back to the parent.

> The big AI data centers would all end up in China, owned and managed by subsidiaries and leased back to the parent.

Well does it matter where industry & technology are located (and who controls them) or doesn't it? The anti-protectionism crowd thinks no, it makes no difference if we make something locally, or import it. A stance not shared by any of the countries currently leading the semiconductor industry - or in the case of China, rapidly catching up.

Have Visa and Mastercard ever not acted in tandem with this sort of block? Is it time for the duopoly to be prosecuted as a cartel?

No. it pretty specifically prohibits the establishment, support or promotion of particular movements. It does not mention discussion, or even discussion of specific ideas that happen to be part of a prohibited movements ideology. You can say 'ownership of production tools should be prohibited', but you can't say 'and that is why Communism is great'. You probably shouldn't rate Das Kapital more than 3 stars, just to be sure.

The idea of my comment was that Communism is (as in the definition) a prohibition of ownership of production tools and nothing else. Every other bit of baggage it is associated with these days is as orthogonal to it as color is orthogonal to height.

Chemo poisons the whole body in an attempt to destroy the cancer before the treatment kills the person. Not something you would want to do precancerous I suspect. Many of the targeted treatments we now have would also not be suitable, as they can't target (or find) a cancer so small as to be deemed precancerous. But I imagine some treatments would, such as drugs targeting the cancer DNA.