We should put boats off the coast of San Francisco like we talked about a few years ago.
The rest of the US can mine coal, frack, or whatever they want to do. They think that's where the jobs are.
Doesn't matter to us. We'll just speed up the electric, self-driving, car revolution with China and continue working on climate change rules and a global economy with Europe.
A sizeable portion of HN users are technical middle class citizens and seem on the face of it often highly separated from the working class, who they mine the metals for their self-driving car batteries and fold their $12 burrito, and drive their Ubers (for now).
Having said that a lot of HN is very modest and objective, so you bad sorts like parent comment and good sorts...like anywhere.
/rant
Another thing is, living on a boat, even if it's huge, is very boring.