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Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments

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42 pointsBerislavLopac30 comments

Discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26031110

TFA mentions that such newly formed county-like local governments would have courthouses. It doesn't talk about police, sheriffs, boys-in-blue. Does the first imply the second?

Is this William Gibson's future of HR with guns?

Wow, I (used to) joke about Corporate being about the same sort of org that existed in Stalinist USSR, with the only saving grace that HR could at most kick you out of the building rather than send you to Gulag.

With this, being fired (on) by HR would take a whole new meaning

Its only a private draft: "No bill related to that topic has yet been introduced in the 2021 Legislature."[1]

There is a promise tracker of Gov. Steve Sisolak. [1] https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/re-introducing-the-...

Edit: Blockchain LCC seems to already own 67,000 acres of land. wow. https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/blockchain-company-bu...

> Sisolak named Blockchains, LLC as a company that had committed to developing a “smart city” in an area east of Reno after the legislation has passed.

This will end well.

1. Excitement

2. Euphoria

3. “Hey - I think we’re all rich”

4. “What’s this law about allowing city employees to issue death certificates?”

5. “It’s ok - it’s totally normal for the mayor to manage the city’s treasury on his laptop.”

6. “OMG - the mayor died! Hey BTW - how come we didn’t make city payroll this month?”

but... If it does, what a fast political state change. If bitcoin were to reach say, 200k a piece, it would put trillions of dollars into the hands of this previously unknown people jutting to be the richest humans on the planet. With this potential bill, it would give them a 'government' in Nevada to back it. Now, what the Federal Governments reaction to this is going to be? Who knows.

Ah, extraterritorial megacorps. Finally, the future Shadowrun promised us.

Sounds like a lot like the setting for Max Barry’s Jennifer Government!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Government

Disney already did this when creating Disneyland in Florida.

I assume you were talking about Walt Disney World [1] and the EPCOT project [2], not Disneyland?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7t0k7VhlUM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)

Yes! I think one of the most fascinating things is that I believe they are allowed to create a nuclear facility if they want?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-wo...

Charter counties rather than charter cities. Seems like the same growing idea.

Good for Nevada. Between supporting the Series LLC and being essentially fully automated as a Secretary of State for ages, they are being very proactive about working on that very difficult land.

Skimming other comments here: to think paper people ( legal formations ) are not already doing or intending this sort of immersive experience, or assuming that is automatically draconian, is cute.

Charter cities maybe a new concept in the US but they have been around for a while in places like India.

They are quite successful.

I kind of don't get it.

Is it supposed to be a critique, or a praise?

I find the tone to be strange.

Local governments in most US states already have authority comparable to much bigger territorial subjects in other countries, and this is nothing new.

So, it is completely in the spirit of the law if their Nevadan laws give their local government authority to, say, make Samsung a mayor of a city.

If Nevadans don't like that, they can take away that authority from local governments.

Neither. It's an objective news report. Seems strange nowadays but this is what they are supposed to sound like.

Sort of striking to see someone come so close to saying "The article didn't indicate how to feel"

First thing that comes to mind is the scientology cult: almost legal opaque organisation with the most fishy activity conducted on the three "sea org" ships that don't belong to any jurisdiction. Someone really wants to make such an arrangement defacto legal. Immoral, but legal.

This sounds like Paul Romer's "charter cities" but with companies instead of countries as guarantors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_city_(economic_develop...

Ah, they're specifically targeting Block chain, IoT and automation too. If they had also listed digital elections, I'd have been prepared to just label this as an attempt to troll developers.

Step back into the Middle Age, where all the power was to the squire, maybe only with modern technology support.

I can't imagine many people on the left or right supporting this.

I'll support anything that means more nations.

Only if persons can declare themselves nations. To illustrate by exageration how unsensical the concept of nations is in the first place.

Why do you think it's nonsensical?

Because nation borders draw arbitrary lines splitting territory.

I accept that peoples, ethnical coherent groups, tribes, culture circles whatever you would call it, exist and that it might make sense that these groups would have authority over their internal rules of interaction and living together. Makes sense.

Yet nation borders more often than not do not run along these lines. Rather they stem from historical sways, power grabs, wars and whatever other negotiations and historical circumstances.

The full absurdity of todays nations and their borders becomes apparent when you realize that air, water, sunlight, wild animals, money, raw materials and good all can move freely between nations, but humans can not.

Borders definitely are products of lots of historical events, but still hard to see how it relates to your original statement. Yes, borders are complicated, and what?

And the undisputable fact that humans are neither sunlight, nor air, nor water (even if technically made mostly of water) should show the absurdity of nations how?

I'd firmly say the right. Sure, you have auth-left, but is definitely not in this camp. Maybe liberal types but I'd argue they are at least partly on the right.

edit: missread can't for can. Nevermind.

This sounds like the libertarian right's wet dream.

"Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes ofwebsite [sic] accessibility"

This is a new one. A site especially designed to be accessible that nevertheless can not - will not, even - display a 500 word plain text article without JavaScript.

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