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1. Hacker News ( unofficial ) (hackernews@pod.jpope.org)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2017 02:15:09 EDT Hacker News ( unofficial )

   Return of the city-state

   Hacker News Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15188894

   Source: https://aeon.co/essays/the-end-of-a-world-of-nation-states-may-be-upon-us

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   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2017 05:54:04 EDT clacke

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      > This year, Patri together with his institute’s communications director Joe Quirk released an exhaustive book on seasteading, and signed a memorandum of understanding with French Polynesia to create the first semi-autonomous seazone in shallow waters off their coast for the first prototype city at sea. Patri told me that they’re starting to build very soon, and within a couple of years expect to have a few hundred people living on this floating metropolis just off the coast of Tahiti.