Capsule hotels in Japan have lockers for the same reasons that US capsule hotels would.  From a practical perspective, theft from a US hotel room is rare & most likely by the cleaning crew.  I've seen a great many hotels, particularly in vacation hotspots such as Myrtle Beach, with small wall safes inside the hotel rooms.  I suppose it would depend upon what you consider a 'problem'.  Again, petty theft is underreported in Japan.  Japanese people don't loot in mass due to social pressures that don't generally exist in the US.  The US has many cultures, Japan has exactly one.

Dude, you're much more likely to get crippled by a cop in the US than be murdered by anyone, at least outside of the national capitol.  Sleeping in a public park is, at a minimum, a sure way to get messed with; by cops or otherwise.  And the common halls of any hotel are camera monitored, whether the room is a standard double bed or a 36" x 80" x 36" box.  The only kinds of murders that occur in hotels in the US are crazy people who lose it all, crimes of passion, or professional hits.  None of which are any less likely to occur in Japan in a hotel than a hotel in the US.  Most murders in the US, and the primary reason that the US has the high mark of murder rates in the first world, occur due to either anticillary crime (i.e. involved in the drug trade, gets wacked by a competitor) or due to familiarity (i.e. domestic violence/ disfunctional family members killing each other).  In both cases, such kinds of murders are vastly less likely to occur in Japan than anywhere else in the world.  That's the cultural difference, which again has almost zero effect on the odds of getting killed or maimed while sleeping in a hotel.

The fact that one is much less likely to be killed by a family member in Japan is more than wiped out by the odds of a Japanese teen or young adult committing suicide.  Japan is one of the few cultures on Earth to have ever considered suicide to be an act of honor, and none of the others are cultures that anyone is likely to hold up as a model.  So it's a bit of a stretch to consider the Japanese to be the 'emotionally sophisticated' culture nor the one to 'place a higher value on life' than other cultures.  That's just bullshit.  We are talking about a modern society that as recently as 70 years ago considered their emperor to be a god incarnate for whom death in battle was considered a life goal.

Crime is far from unheard of in Japan.  And like everywhere else, petty theft crimes increase as the economy sours.  Sure they don't murder each other at any rate near what Americans do, but that's a bit like comparing apples to oranges.  They still don't like sleeping anyplace that feels insecure.  The big thing about capsule hotels is that land space is at such a premium there, and that has zero to do with their culture and everything to do with the fact that they never had a plague of the black death nor a cycle of culture conflicts that nearly wiped out their youngest generations several times, like Europe.  That's pretty much what the colonists were trying to get away from.

BTW, to some degree the crime rates (other than murder) are skewed in Japan.  Petty theft is rarely reported, because of the perception of futility.  So theft rates are underreported as compared to the US, where we tend to report even the futile events due to insurance requirements.

A ship could also move out of the way of a storm, an island can't.  And considering that we're talking about glorified sandbars, there's no certainty that there will be any useful island left after the first good tropical storm rolls through.

And a ship that isn't moving, doesn't need a pilot.  Most of those jobs mentioned can be performed by the same people while not piloting the ship.  Do you really think that a ship needs both a first officer and a radio officer?  Some ships need these things, but mostly because they are in constant motion.

Yeah, it used to be.  I miss those days sometimes.

Five acres is very small.  Are we sure it isn't in hectares?

I've never played Bioshock.  I'd tried to read Snowcrash, but just couldn't get into it like I did with Cryptocromicon, System of the World & The Diamond Age. 

Why an aircraft carrier?  Those are particularly uncomfortable ships.  How about a cruise ship?

Until something dramatic is found on the ocean's floor to justify the expense, a city underwater is actually less likely from an economic perspective than one on the Moon.  At least a moonbase would verifiablely have H3 to collect for export.  There is probably nothing else on the moon of any particular scarcity to ever justify a moonbase economicly.  Bitcoin mining in the dark craters of the moon would have free cooling and continuous solar power for two weeks at a time, though.

This thread is a perfect example of exactly my original point.  This thread will never end due to the differing opinions on the semantics of the word "democracy".  In the end, Bitcoin is what it is, and it doesn't matter at all how it's described.

You do realize you just insulted my home city, right?  I've lived in Oceanside, California (north of San Diego) Chicago, Ill. and Cincinnati, Ohio.  Louisville is, by far, the most cost effective, cleanest and safest city that I've ever known.  Granted, my experiences are limited, but I returned home deliberately.  And there is much more to do around here all year round, although I'll admit Louisville doesn't seem to attract the big conventions.


Someone else can do it in Pittsburgh.


Speaking of gun toting rednecks, Louisville also happens to lay claim to the greatest number of Class III weapons in America, per capita.  A gun range just outside the city limits hosts one of the largest Class III weapons events in the world twice a year, the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.

Don't call anyone rednecks, though.  Such utterances could prove unhealthy.

Generally, yes. 

A bitcoin/cash 'capsule' hotel on one floor in this building....

http://www.cityfeet.com/Commercial/ForLease/427-S-4th-Street-Louisville-KY-40202-16800612L16800612L1.aspx

...directly connected to this skyway network...

http://www.gotolouisville.com/emailer/gif/standard/LouieLink_Map.pdf

...with a price point around $12/person/night.  (If a capsule hotel goes for ~$30 per night in Japan, it damn well ought to be less in a US city with one of the lowest costs of living in America)  A relatively small 'capsule' hotel compared to those that do well in Japan, but would be ideal for backpacking travelers, locals who get hammered while downtown and convention attendees; in addition to 'couch surfers' in between couches.  Minimalistic accomodations; a comfortable place to take a sh*t, safe place to get a warm shower, and a relatively secure place to sleep without getting your gear stolen or the cops kicking you in the dark.

Seems to fit well into this article's viewpoint about future investment strategies....

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/02/products-and-services-for-permanently.html

This kind of thing should work even better in larger cities such as Chicago.  I wonder why it's never been tried in the US.

Anyone know how much commericially manufactured 'capsule' bunks cost?

If I get everything that I would like, I would like one clear photo of the entire weapon next to your bitcoin address and one clear photo of it disassembled as if you were about to clean it, also next to your bitcoin address.  The point is to prove that you actually own this particular weapon & that you didn't go online and find a photo of another in better condition.


I don't know enough about the current state of the market to make a fair offer just yet.  I'll get back to you.

Can I get a photo?  And what are you asking for it?

EDIT: A better photo, and one that can verify your ownership of said object.  May I suggest a markerboard with your bitcoin address?

No, you don't know what it means.  The US, regardless of who is at fault or who is the POTUS, is not a democracy and never has been.  And don't blame your problems on the village idiot, it's unbecoming of an adult.  The POTUS can't do anything of importance against the will of Congress, so there were over 400 'adults' in the room that wanted to do what was done, and every one of them were thankful for the village idiot.

IT's a difficult question to answer, because too many people have different ideas of what 'democratic' actually means.

Internet access for a large group of users is relatively easy anywhere on earth except the poles, and even that isn't insurmoutable.  Still won't be as cheap as a mid-city broadband account, but the data for a minor bitcoin node shared by the group isn't an overwhelming burden.

If it isn't in international waters beyond the authority of an existing government, it serves no purpose in seasteading whatever.  Nice thought though.

I play games on Linux all the time.

None without their own unique risks.

Doubtful, because any one person turning off or on an infected machine would have little effect upon the total hashrate.  It would be lost in the general noise.