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The right to conscientiously object, the right to opt out, the right to "seastead"--these are all the results of tyrannical local prejudice.
Inequality of Political Power, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Executive director Patri Friedman predicts a future in which any group of people dissatisfied with their current government would be able to start a new one by purchasing a floating platform "called a seastead" and building a new community on the open ocean.
Cato Daily Podcast 2009
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Prototype floating city, called a seastead, may be ready in 3 years, engineer says
CNN.com 2009
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Prototype floating city, called a seastead, may be ready in 3 years, engineer says
GeekLikeMe.net 2009
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Long-term trends are somewhat favorable for seasteading because with a cell phone and internet access more and more people could live on a seastead and make a living.
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To some extent, they believe the outfittings for the seastead will be dependent on the business model, say aquaculture or tourism, that will support it and the number of people aboard.
Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies « Isegoria 2008
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In essence, the seastead would consist of a reinforced concrete tube with external ballasts at the bottom that could be filled with air or water to raise or lower the living platform on top.
Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies « Isegoria 2008
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Their dream is to create a seastead-a manmade island structure right off shore.
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Charter cities also address a key question about seasteading – will governments regulate or takeover a successful seastead?
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But by the same token, I do not want to move to New Hampshire (see Jason Sorens) or to a seastead (see Patri Friedman).
Libertarians: What Now?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
chained_bear commented on the word seastead
"Mountain climbing, camping, Boy Scouts, boat building, sailling, and design, and my family's continued encouragement to confront life head on have all given me enough skill to 'seastead' on this tiny, floating island."
--Steven Callahan, Adrift, 162
May 15, 2008
bilby commented on the word seastead
There's also some kind seasteading movement.
August 2, 2009
MaryW commented on the word seastead
From the Seasteading Institute's FAQs:
February 14, 2019