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The Floating City Project: Help TSI Raise Money on Indiegogo 16 Aug 2013 | 02:10 am
Mike here. It’s been slow here at Let a Thousand Nations Bloom. But in case you haven’t seen this elsewhere, I wanted to post the Seasteading Institutute’s Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for desig...
Bitcoin and Unbreakable Law 13 Jun 2013 | 12:59 pm
Imagine that you were entertaining a business deal with a man with an supernatural ability to make two kinds of promises: 1) promises that are impossible for him to break and 2) ordinary, breakable pr...
History of Future Cities 20 Mar 2013 | 09:00 pm
Daniel Brook recently published excepts from his book on four designed or somewhat cultivated cities–St. Petersburg, Mumbai, Shanghai, and Dubai. Fascinating bit of history on Shanghai and how market...
Michael Huemer on Political Authority 5 Mar 2013 | 12:14 am
If you haven’t yet, do pick up a copy of Huemer’s latest book, The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the RIght to Coerce and the Duty to Obey. But for the short version, check out this...
“If America was a startup, we’d all quit” 27 Feb 2013 | 12:43 am
Welcome to the competitive government movement Michael Arrington. He writes at TechCrunch: America is an unsolvable problem, a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup we’d ...
Belen Fernandez, Please Come Debate Us 23 Feb 2013 | 01:39 am
I want to be as charitable as I can to Al Jazeera, and Belen Fernandez, who wrote an impetuous rant against the “charter city” movement in Honduras. If she wants to have a reasoned debate about the id...
Belgians Propose Artificial Island to Store Energy 21 Feb 2013 | 11:40 pm
Technology Review reports: Belgian cabinet member, Johan Vande Lanotte, has introduced a planning proposal for a man-made atoll placed in the North Sea to store energy. The idea is to place the islan...
Markets in Everything: Citizenship 15 Feb 2013 | 10:43 pm
The AP reports: Turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has led to a surge of interest in programs that let investors buy citizenship or residence in countries around the world in return for a he...
Who Cares? 5 Feb 2013 | 09:02 am
“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” ― Theodore Roosevelt At least since Ancient Greece have men realized that a perception a person’s character and motivation is key to...
“Quicksourcing” Labor With Jurisdictional Arbitrage 28 Jan 2013 | 02:42 am
Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired and now drone making entrepreneur, has a great article in the NYTimes on how portions of Tijuana and surrounding areas in Mexico are becoming attractive plac...
