Just interesting news to me.
This article is short and right to the point. It will show you how pandemics are transformative agents for society. A little lesson in history that is informative for me. I wish there would be more articles like this, on the internet universe.
>>> “Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history.”
Seasteading is an interesting notion. The reasoning is that on the sea there is no government and if you live there then you are free. In reality, anything on the sea that does not have a flag of a ‘recognized’ country might be fired upon by any vessels that see it, including big navy countries like the US and the UK.
Another problem with the notion of seasteading is that most projects are without possibilities of defending themselves and are subject to attacks by anybody ‘stronger’ than them. That goes contrary to one of the sayings of Machiavelli which says more or less that “Before all else, be armed!”.
I am a fan of decentralization projects, not because I like chaos but because the new decentralization techniques like blockchains and other “peer to peer” (P2P) technologies provide order without centralizing power in the hands of one or too few entities.
I have owned condos on multiple occasions and I do not think I will ever own one in the future because I feel less at home in one.
Condos do not solve the “musical problem” or when your neighbor plays his music too loud. When that happens in a condo you have almost no defense. You might lodge a complaint with local authorities but if you do it too often they will get angry with you. The condo administration will not be policing her members very strongly. Even when you own a house in a bad neighborhood, you are never completely at home. First, you still need to pay rent in the form of taxes to local authority and if you have a “noisy” neighbor, you are stuck with complaining to the police or public security.
I prefer to rent, in the current social paradigm. When I rent a place, I may always refer to the landlord for ‘justice’ and he is highly motivated to listen to me and resolve the situation, more so, if it involves more tenants.
I am ready to pay a little bit more by renting because then, the landlord is shielding me from higher authorities and that is a service I like.
Of course, I would not rent from a condo owner.
I wish them luck anyway, but I would prefer it if they would just rent the units on long terms (3,6,12 months).
>>> “Ocean Builders, a company that builds “seapods” or floating homes for seasteaders, has unveiled “The Crypto Cruise Ship” called Satoshi. It is being prepared to set sail from the Mediterranean and will anchor in the Gulf of Panama.”