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Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale
- Jaruzel 7y agoI have a large hope that whomever buys this, carries on doing great research things with it, and doesn't just convert it into a playboys luxury pad.
- peteretep 7y agoYou can probably get a fancier yacht for the same price if you don't wanna do the research stuff.
- nabla9 7y agoIt's rare to see superyacht that is tastefully designed and has interesting functionality.
- rq1 7y agoWe’re in 2019 and there is still some websites that mess with the browser history and break the back button. (iOS/safari)
- tpetry 7y agoIt‘s not decreasing it‘s increasingand i think it‘s completely intentional. Happens more and more on sites with content designed to be shared.
- dannyw 7y agoBrowsers should start punishing captive traps. There are valid use cases for SPA redirects without user interaction, much like how HTTP redirects ("Location: ") work, but... abuse should be dealt with.
- cookingrobot 7y agoThe browsers should just fix it. Clicking back should skip over all those pages in the back-stack that I didn’t interact with.
- nextstep 7y agoThe asking price is $325M, so no, I can’t buy Paul Allen’s yacht
- barking 7y agoThe potential market for this boat numbers under 1000 people or maybe even under 100 I'd say.
- Aeolun 7y agoSome of them may be on HN though?
- barking 7y agoThere's a thought, there's a lot of thoughts, actually!
- trenning 7y agoFrom the listing companies website, > this yacht is not available for sale to US residents in US waters I suppose that number is quite small. However I bet this would be a nice addition to some wealthy drug lord, I mean I comes with 2 subs. I wonder if they take cash
- weinzierl 7y agoA while ago there was a thread about an article that claimed that more people than you think can afford to buy a Superyacht but less people than you think an afford to maintain one. The article called those groups "LeBron James rich" and "Abramovich rich" if I remember correctly. The article claimed that this was the reason that most Superyachts are "playboys luxury pads" (as another commenter called it) where most passenger pay in some form or other be allowed to be on the yacht.
- vetinari 7y ago> more people than you think can afford to buy a Superyacht but less people than you think an afford to maintain one. Well, the joke goes: A yacht will bring joy to the owner twice: first time when bought, second time when sold.
- barking 7y agoYou could imagine that the name was supposed to evoke James Bond because it certainly looks like something from a Bond movie.
- codeulike 7y agoWould suit James Cameron perhaps
- sunstone 7y agoOr, possibly Elon.
- vincengomes 7y agoJames Cameron's net worth is estimated at 700 million. the asking price for the Yacht is almost Half. Then taking into consideration, the expesnive maintanence costs, i dont think even James cameron could afford it.
- codeulike 7y agoWow, interesting
- TYPE_FASTER 7y agoWell, you'd probably have to be on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires Or, take a risk and charter it to offset some of the est. $32.5mil annual run cost. Filling the tank can't be cheap, but a 12,500 mile range is pretty amazing.