Blueseed, a startup backed by iconoclast investor Peter Thiel, has announced plans for an entrepreneurial cruise ship that would dock in international waters off Northern California, allowing foreign nationals a place to live and work near Silicon Valley without having to obtain U.S. visas.

While an investment venture to fund an entrepreneurial live-aboard ship may sound strange to the uninitiated, to those of us who wage a daily battle in the hostile world of employment-based immigration, Thiel’s cruise ship idea almost makes sense.

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