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I just emailed them asking if they are doing anything with it. They responded and sent me here: http://www.kitsaultenergy.com/index.html

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North of Jasper but closer to the sea, and right next door to Alaska. Interesting spot but be prepared to add substantial cost of transportation to every molecule you may require.

South of Sitka, the weathers gotta be great

This is so weird and creepy, I just applied!

Let’s start a hacker news town!

Uhm,

The infra looks super depressing...

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Kitsault,+BC+V0J+3T0,+Canad...

Yeah read the blog post, that's by design--the town was abandoned in the 80s and has been maintained by a private owner. I think it would be kind of cool to live there as an escape from the hustle and bustle of cities. Like living in a shack in the woods, except the shack has most of the amenities of modern life (circa 1980).

I agree!

I would totally move there assuming life support. Health, Food, Power, Heat, Water.

What do for work - and if trying to make a Hacker Commune, how structure (I actually lived on a commune and know how badly they are managed)

StarLink. Remote work outpost. AirBnB it too maybe?

I’m in. Is there some crypto angle? (totes!!)

I think that's missing the point by a hundred miles. Once you bring in Starlink, it becomes like any other place, just remote. Try moving there and living like in the 80s - without internet. That would be the appeal I think.

Yeah, that operating room is straight out of a horror movie

I think it's an x-ray room. The wall with the window for the radiologist to look through and the arm above the table.

I think you are right. It’s weird though, that arm above the table doesn’t look like it has an X-ray tube on it, but the little control room appears to have a generator in it.

Strange to have chairs in the room. Minor correction, it would usually be a radiographer not a radiologist who took x-rays. However if this was a screening room (a room that does imaging with a fluoroscopic unit), it would usually be a radiologist who did it.

I was wondering if I had mixed up radiographer and radiographer.

The chairs are definitely interesting. I can't think of any rooms like that where family or friends have been allowed. Maybe we're both right and it's a multipurpose "hospital" room? Might make sense for a small town that needs a doctor's office with basic exam capabilities.

Maybe it's because I grew up in the '80s but other than the dated doctor's office, I didn't find those buildings to be depressing at all.

A Hacker News town would be awful. A bloated mess of JavaScript powered "smart" things connected to a surveillance capitalism advertising dystopia.

It would be a libertarian paradise.

AKA real-life Bioshock 1 sequel/DLC without the superpowers. Remote location (check); next to the ocean (check); owned by a corporate/millionaire bringing in like minded people (check and check).

Sad to see libertarianism conflated with anarchism. The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it.

> The existence of a state, that does not violate people's rights, is perfectly consistent with libertarianism, and is arguably essential to it.

the 'original' libertarians (anarchists) would probably agree...

The modern form of argumentation on display here:

"I'm not going to argue against what you say you believe, I'm going to assert you believe something else and attack that, or group you with people who believe differently than you and argue against that."

I mean they just stated a fact, it's not an argument. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology

What are you on about??

A libertarian paradise is a corporate dystopia.

So overrun with bears and falling apart?

https://newrepublic.com/amp/article/159662/libertarian-walks...

That would be Hong Kong, before the CCP takeover.

Ooh. I am getting BioShock vibes.

Alexa, would you kindly turn on the kitchen lights?

... pretty-please? Aw, c'mon...

Applied for what? The web site looks mostly like "Yo, politicians, you really should build a pipeline here to my empty town." What is there to actually apply for?

I’ll check the site out when on non-mobile. But what sort of internet connectivity?

> There are four occupant ready apartment buildings complete with 96 furnished two and three bedroom units. An additional 60 apartment units will be available for occupancy. All apartments are serviced by the town's water, electric and sewage systems.

> There is an office with phone, fax, internet, and photocopier facilities. We have an industrial kitchen with all appliances and a dining room that can seat 60 people. [0]

The answer to internet facilities seems to be "exists", but no more detail than that.

The last time I lived in similar level of remoteness, we had access to a single 15/5 satellite connection that was then split between all residences. It wouldn't surprise me if that was also the case, here. Starlink may also be available, and it's pretty much guaranteed to be faster than anyone else.

[0] http://www.kitsaultenergy.com/housing.html

Starlink

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