As long as blue ray discs are released, there’ll be webshops selling them

For digital media, pirating increases the number of sales

From our understanding, life is likely to start in water - Not sure how much that’s impacted by winds

But I recon life can evolve in billions of directions, so over time something larger might survive on ground and in air

I believe that’s very regional, if there’s a local hiking club you could try to reach out to them.

There’s often forums dedicated to hiking, which have all sorts of hikes mapped out.

But a map service like mapy.com (formerly .cz), has the official marked routes as part of their mapping data

And best of all, it’s based on an American average

Gravity walking is the missing link, lift your foot and let gravity pull it down. You’ll be going down almost running and it takes barely any energy.

It’s best in places without other humans, as you’re basically a locomotive and it takes time to slow down

Only ISBN’d books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them

Now we just need to proof they’ve copied the files onto a second hard drive, so they own two copies

If we’re gonna keep it as a copyright issue, I think people are mostly mad they’re not able to reprint the books themselves if they wanted to. We’re not speaking from a copyright position

The incentive is literally that it’s cheaper to scan, that’s all.

But given they’re only interested in books with ISBN’s, I recon they’re already scanned and available in digital forms. If they’re newer than the 80s, they’re most likely in a document file in a server related to the publisher.

Honestly surprised they’d rather source physical books, than just request various publishers for a price for their combined works - Only reason I can think of, is the physical scan makes other scans like a mobile photo easier to recognise and respond correctly to

If a big company needed a lot of something specific, they’d probably pay a pretty penny and let people going to small lot auctions accumulate a sizeable amount and then buy it from them.

It’s not impossible to buy stuff from small lots at scale, as long as you’re willing to pay a premium

What a wild ride of a Wikipedia page

They fled to the US for amnesty because they don’t intend to do so, but it would sour the American relationship with the UK even further

They’re way more negative in regards to AI on Lemmy than they are on Reddit

There’s a funny thing going on at EU level, were Danish unions are lobbying against an EU wide minimum wage. As they believe un-unionised immigrant labour will end up with worse wages, if there’s a legal minimum wage they can point to

ASML has an order book running to 2028, the problem is it’s almost impossible to create a competitor to ASML - Demand for fabs is not the issue.

I would assume fortified positions do not count as battlefield

What makes you think they’re pushing 10k people past their trenches at all times?

This statement is about the battlefield. The area between fortifications. Given a M777 howitzer has a range of 21-40 km based on type of shell.

If we go by the most extreme expectations, then the battlefield will be at least 10 kms wide - As both sides will keep artillery a bit further back to protect them against enemy artillery fire.

To get the expert infantry badge in the US army, a soldier needs to be able to march with full equipment at 6.33 km an hour. It’s fair to assume the Russian soldiers running into their death aren’t spotting full equipment. So if we’re setting it a bit high they might be able to move 5 km during the 30 minute expected kill time.

The numbers are similar for the other side of this fight. It means the only way to push the battle lines is by using equipment

If you’re attempting to assassinate someone, you don’t want a physical trail going straight back to your location.

I think fiber optics would only see niche applications, when done by either a lunatic or a professional agent aware they’d sacrifice themselves for the target.

But if you’re at the point of having professional agents, willing to sacrifice themselves. It’s more likely you’d sneak a drone onto a civilian vehicle like a truck, with a preprogrammed path able to scan for a specific face (or a handful of them) which acts offline once it sets off

China did exercises with Cambodia last year, as a way to showcase their drone technology.

I have a conspiracy theory; AI is secretly pushed to the level it is, because Pentagon demands it. China and the US has been in an AI cold war for half a decade, maybe a decade, as they understand the power the technology is able to bring to a battlefield scenario

And a pretty high percentage will turn to organised crime, an astounding number of American biker gangs were created by veterans after Vietnam.

Although you could argue the types of veterans seeking adrenaline, probably won’t be the drone operators and drone builders - But if they take that route, holy mackarel the turf wars will turn grim