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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by ArnoVW on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:24PM (#25781017)
A tempting proposition indeed (well for the next 20 years, less so after that).

I suppose the problems arise when infrastructure has to be built for those linear communities (Dutch word of the day:'lintdorp', or ribbon-village). Because suddenly the average population density is awful and we have to drive a lot, build more schools and hospitals, etc. Not to mention the poor sods that have a 500 km commute to work the land so that the rest of us can eat >:-)

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by spiralx on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:04PM (#25781712)
Somebody should tell these people:

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/saudi-arabia-the-lin...

I'm not convinced it's not vapourstructure given how ridiculous it seems.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:55PM (#25782359)
> A city with services driven by AI

That's some tell-tale bullshit right here.

That said, the video is very interesting. As well as branding - The Line. Would work very well as a setting in a sci-fi movie or a videogame.

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