them:

this is wild oversimplification

you:

cortisol bad

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Except no one is entitled to talent either, and that’s the unspoken presumption unpinning all of this. The fact that the entire technology is built off of the unethical use of other’s art just reinforces the entitlement of it all.

probably a typo or auto-correct mistake for “camping fuel”, which I’ve seen mentioned in other sources

yo what the fuck, that is bullshit

It’s really not even converting, as percent is literally “1/100” (per-cent = per 100). It’s purely convenient shorthand.

If you extract a key from a proprietary client to decrypt a private API, it definitely is illegal. If you do this as a corporation, it would also be easy to detect by abnormal usage patterns tied to your account and presents you as a nice big set of pockets to get sued.

Just screen scraping isn’t illegal, but is fragile as fuck and will break at the worst time and you have no ability to implement version control to manage it.

Good thinking, that way you won’t accidentally learn anything