Then I assume you'll happily pay $20 for a bottle of water, given how important it is?

> people tend to want low-latency and high-speed

that might change is privacy is an option. The real problem is the cost of building in the middle of nowhere, even if you use spare Starlink capacity, where do you get power & personnel from?

> where do you get power

Wind, hydro, sun? This is 2026 after all.

> personnel

Depends on what that theoretical country would offer. Some kind of strong constitutionally-enshrined protections for privacy and perhaps from tyranny-of-the-majority exploiting upper-middle class like all other western countries and with strong IT jobs market? Are you kidding, sign me up!

The original post was "somewhere in Antarctic", what does that offer?

I chose Antarctic as an example because it is one of few places on Earth with significant uninhabited land where one could theoretically establish a new sovereign state. Are you implying that all popular green energy technologies are somehow unfeasible there?

Yes, the "somehow" is that no one want to live there, and the associated expense of building there probably outweighs the benefits. I'm also sceptical you could establish a new sovereign state there.

Previous submissions:

2024-02 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39517139

2019-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21639918

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

What do you mean by ~"PoW unlocks unlimited scraping"?

Usually after you solve the POW challenge, sites let you make a lot of requests before asking you to complete another.

Presumably he meant on Facebook, not on Facebook..

Maybe this is the guy they trained the LLMs on?

And an extra import. also, it sounds like they where looking specifically for knowledge of built-in operators.

> Amplifiers, Not Substitutes

the kind of heading AI would write..

of course