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I think you forgot a crucial bit of infrastructure that's a lot harder to slap together than power or internet: plumbing.

rdl 13y ago
Septic tanks and water tanks work pretty well in semi-ruralish areas; you could either have a couple of trucks, or lay pipe. Or, have no plumbing in the temporary structures themselves, but have shower/bathroom trailers (which, admittedly, would suck a bit) separate from the temporary structures. I assume you'd build more infrastructure with time; putting in a real sewage plant would be expensive up-front and not really worth it for ~50 people on 2000 acres, but maybe in time. (You could even probably do zero-grid, with wifi/wimax/4g coverage to a couple of hard points with fiber, and decentralized electrical generation on each structure using solar/wind + batteries, at least to start.)
- redblacktree 13y ago
  Real-life SimCity?
  - rdl 13y ago
    I may be influenced by living from 2004-2010 in either bombed out wrecks or "camps" in warzones, where this kind of stuff is routine.
    - lostlogin 13y ago
      Wondered if you were going to fess up and admit that you see anything better than a war zone as luxury. Out of curiosity, what's your ideal home?
      - rdl 13y ago
        Well, the thing I'm trying to solve is density of hackers vs. cost. A suburban area completely taken over by hackers might also work. My ideal home is something that is less than 10% of my net worth.
        lostlogin 13y ago
        Now that would be nice - the house my wife and I life in is about 175-200% our net worth. I'd never thought of a condition like that.
        rdl 13y ago
        What I'd really like is a hangar with some vault/storage space nearby, so the hangar can be reconfigured for various projects (with tools/etc. on roller carts to a great degree, or in side partition areas with roller doors so they can be opened up to the main hangar space). Steel span structures are fairly cheap, but I suspect I could buy an old factory (ideally something fairly clean) for less than construction cost somewhere. A shotcrete shell with steel mesh would be fine too.
sliverstorm 13y ago
Or roads.

rdl 13y ago

Septic tanks and water tanks work pretty well in semi-ruralish areas; you could either have a couple of trucks, or lay pipe. Or, have no plumbing in the temporary structures themselves, but have shower/bathroom trailers (which, admittedly, would suck a bit) separate from the temporary structures. I assume you'd build more infrastructure with time; putting in a real sewage plant would be expensive up-front and not really worth it for ~50 people on 2000 acres, but maybe in time. (You could even probably do zero-grid, with wifi/wimax/4g coverage to a couple of hard points with fiber, and decentralized electrical generation on each structure using solar/wind + batteries, at least to start.)

redblacktree 13y ago
Real-life SimCity?
- rdl 13y ago
  I may be influenced by living from 2004-2010 in either bombed out wrecks or "camps" in warzones, where this kind of stuff is routine.
  - lostlogin 13y ago
    Wondered if you were going to fess up and admit that you see anything better than a war zone as luxury. Out of curiosity, what's your ideal home?
    - rdl 13y ago
      Well, the thing I'm trying to solve is density of hackers vs. cost. A suburban area completely taken over by hackers might also work. My ideal home is something that is less than 10% of my net worth.
      - lostlogin 13y ago
        Now that would be nice - the house my wife and I life in is about 175-200% our net worth. I'd never thought of a condition like that.
        rdl 13y ago
        What I'd really like is a hangar with some vault/storage space nearby, so the hangar can be reconfigured for various projects (with tools/etc. on roller carts to a great degree, or in side partition areas with roller doors so they can be opened up to the main hangar space). Steel span structures are fairly cheap, but I suspect I could buy an old factory (ideally something fairly clean) for less than construction cost somewhere. A shotcrete shell with steel mesh would be fine too.

sliverstorm 13y ago

Or roads.