Ah the high sea, the place particularly famous for having good internet connection, yes
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
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“Government overreach not only stalls the pace of innovation, but also interferes with the cosmic endowment of humanity,” the firm said.
I'm very glad these ancap dweebs are just scamming investors
cosmic endowment of humanity
WTF does this even mean? 
Think of all the Space Colonialism we could be doing right now! Think of all the profit we could be making, if not for the poisonous overreach of central banks!
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This will be complemented by “kinetic risk mitigation” provided by an on-board security team.
THEY GOT WATER COPS DOING THE COP LINGO 
if it's on water cops are traditionally called marines
marines were the branch of the navy that suppressed mutinies
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NK hackers 
it's libertarians I assume they'll decide Plimsoll lines are just big government regulation and sink the ship due to overloading
ive done digital piracy for forever but physical piracy might be cool too
What are they gonna do? Call the police?
another use for my idea for an underwater drone that attaches to target ship hulls and drills holes
we need mad science to make these things capable of boring through steel hulls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_navalis
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God almighty, I lived long enough for seasteads to come back in style. What ancient SA threads will we resurrect next?
WTYP will never run out of content
WTYP is gonna have to list off half of the Trueanon rules for life for this one
This reminds me of the WTYP bit about these modern supervillains with their supervillain lairs are just dorks who do dorky stuff like mining bitcoin, and aren't worthy of a James Bond visit.
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AI seasteading? Are you fucking kidding? I didn't think anything could be dumber than seasteading which is the libertarian dream of living on the sea to live without laws or taxes. Stupid me.
Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, in international waters outside the territory claimed by any government.
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It's for illegal porn isn't it?
Always.
Orcas, do your things.
tightly-guarded barge
Huh, is that so? 
Bazinga seasteading
Dunktank material
GOVERNMENT BUDGET:
$10,000,000: Tracking ownership of monkey jpegs
$20,000,000: Pictures of people with Lovecraftian Horror Fingers
$15,000,000: SEO pollution
$35,000,000: Stonk analysis that works about as well as a reasonably well-trained octopus
Somebody help, my citizen is starving.
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This sounds like the kind of thing that will result in a headline like "100 dead in boating disaster" that everyone will skim over because it doesn't sound that interesting, and those of us who read the article will be like "yeah that makes sense, idk what they were expecting"
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pack on high alert
The first country that can be totally destroyed with a single team of undersea divers
Also how the fuck is anyone believing this "sovereign territory" dribble. That isn't how blue water ships work, inspite of what brain dead libertarians want to believe.
For fks sake, just because you are sailing in international waters doesn't make you somehow sovereign. You sure as hell aren't sailing a ship worth a better part of a billion dollars around without being registered under the flag of a real internationally recognized nation-state because other than being uninsurable, without that protection you can come under the jurisdiction of literally anyone who decides they want to seize your vessel. Screaming "you're violating NAP" doesn't mean shit if not under the flag (and jurisdiction) of a great power or nation allied with a great power. Not gonna have the US, Chinese, Russian, or EU governments flexing economic and military power if someone decides they want to come up on $500,000,000 in GPUs because you are legally not their problem.
Mr. Dongfeng 5 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, do your thing.
I love the tiny solar panels on that.
Those GPUs would have a combined power consumption between 3.5-7 million watts. How the hell are they planning on powering that?
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I am so glad that GPUs just run on unicorn farts these days. Since they have lots of virgins on that boat, they will be able to run them no problem and with no huge, stupid cost!
Yarrr, where it be? me crew be looking for our next haul of booty! 🏴☠️
i have never watched one piece but i must assume that this is incredibly close to the premise. a massive pile of wealth for pirates to gather, all in one place?
I have a hard time imagining that's not gonna be a massive target for hackers.
Who knew that 01 would become a reality not in Mesopotamia, but the ocean. And that it would largely function as a massive cp library instead of a manufacturing powerhouse.
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