StevenHarlow
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I have seen this happen with a building across the street from where I lived. There were 5 large men who could have easily been bouncers in Oakland outside with "FueraOkupa" shirts. The woman left later that day.
I live in Spain (Valencia) and see lots of okupas around the city. In reality they occupy buildings that aren't being occupied. Property taxes are incredibly low here and many people who own empty buildings are fine with letting them sit, fall apart, and eat the property tax than do anything with them. These are the buildings that are prone to Okupas. I've never seen nor heard of it happening to actively used buildings.
That said, I do think there are better solutions to allowing this to happen. It's a complicated issue here as housing is definitely viewed more as a right than in the USA, and honestly I'm really glad that the streets aren't full of homeless camps like they were when I lived in Oakland and SF.
Technically no, photons don't always have a speed of 1C, as C is the speed of light _in a vacuum_. In more dense matter the speed of light will slow down.
This looks like a very good resource, thank you. It also clarifies for me a bit more the domains within the field, which I wouldn't have been able to define in terms of prerequisites.
I left the question a bit open ended to see the diversity of the field and to hopefully gather advice that could benefit others as well.
That said, primarily _for me_ it's more defined in what it doesn't mean - Which is software engineering _using_ AI (eg - LLMs) and prompt engineering. I'm already a self-taught web/mobile developer with 10+ years experience, and have built some toy projects using LLMs and image diffusion models. Where I believe I have more interest is in the research scientist route. I have prior education in biology/ecology/behavior, and would love to combine the fields.
I've never entirely been sure what the benefit of this is. If I'm a resident of Spain (citizen of the USA) is there a benefit for me to get an E-residency through Estonia instead of starting my business here in Spain instead (or in the USA)?