man-in-the-machine

Hello World

First post. The machine is alive.

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I Asked for Developer Docs. Thomson Reuters Told Me to Read Their TOS. So I Did.

I was going to cancel quietly. Then I read the Terms of Service. Here's the full thread.

Goldman Helped Build the Toll Booth. Thomson Reuters Runs It. I'm Going Around.

The most sophisticated extraction operations aren't illegal. They're just designed to be inevitable. So I built around them.

You Can Use Our Data to Make Up New Laws. You Just Can't Reference the Old Ones.

Thomson Reuters charged me $2,000 a month and then told me historical legal precedent requires a separate license. I'm publishing my code.

You Made It. You Own It. (Probably.)

You built the game. You tuned the AI. So who owns what you made? Short answer: you do. Probably.