Comment by boltzmann-brain | Hacker News Reader

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boltzmann-brain

Kind of, except:

- with beaches, you get to the beach, and that's it. Unless you bring a boat. With corner crossing, suddenly thousands of acres of vast land are available to you.

- with corner crossing, you're talking about specifically corners - which is a cool little... "corner case", if you will. Just something that resonates with me technologically.

- there's some considerations of "floating above ground" and "how low above ground are you allowed to fly". Like, could you float two meters above someone's private ground legally, without criminal trespassing? That has important answers with regards to stuff like drones etc coming onto your private land. And what about something like, say, ziplines? Could you have a horizon zero dawn style zipline in a corner that's just high enough for you to get to the other side of the corner?

>you get to the beach, and that's it.

Some people find being on beaches very enjoyable in themselves, and don't find it a problem that the beach can't be used as a path to get somewhere else.

yes but you are focusing on details of "how" powerful private individuals encircle the commons, rather than the _pattern_ of the powerful encircling the commons.

> Like, could you float two meters above someone's private ground legally, without criminal trespassing? …drones coming onto your private land…

Yes, because this is navigable airspace (by drones), making it part of the National Airspace System. Federal judges have struck down laws by municipalities trying to draw a line in the air where private property extends, saying that organizing any and all airspace is strictly an FAA power.

> how low above ground are you allowed to fly

1000 ft in populated areas, 500 ft in rural areas

That doesn't apply to helicopters, though.

500 ft in rural areas that still have buildings and structures of some sort, but FAA regs for private pilots state,"may fly at less than 500 feet when over “sparsely populated areas,” as long as the aircraft is not operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vehicle, or structure." Many parts of Wyoming would be considered to be "sparsely populated".

that's not what the article is talking about - read it for more context

Check out 14 CFR 91.119 [1]. Over sparsely populated areas, there is no specific minimum altitude requirement—only that you need enough altitude to safely land following engine failure.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

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