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Hacker Island would be sweet. PG, you got $17K on it? You can have 6% of the island

It would just turn into Reddit Island eventually anyway..

We'd also attract many tourists confused about whether they were on Hacker Island or actually on Reddit Island, worried that they had somehow arrived at the latter.

Of course, the quality of eavesdropping (obligatory: http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html) is quite better at the former.

Well, a disinterest in tropical islands and the sole requirements of power and internet opens all northern and souther islands, so it's a facet to be considered! Hell, so long as there was a source of food and a volunteer group willing to service the windmills when they froze, we could dig some caverns in Antarctica! The 'Frozen Hackathon', 24/7/365.

I'm thinking the inevitable resulting Linux distro could be called "Linux OnIce", or just "OnIce" for short.

Why does it feel like if we actually made a hacker island it would start to resemble LOST complete with EMP generators and bunkers?

I imagined the sci-fi show Eureka.