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I remember reading about how Peter Thiel's giant apocalypse-proof property there. Apparently he's agreed to share it with Sam Altman. https://www.theguardian.c

I remember reading about how Peter Thiel's giant apocalypse-proof property there. Apparently he's agreed to share it with Sam Altman. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...

glaucon 6y ago
No love for Thiel or the mechanism by which he gained a NZ residency visa but the reality is the property in question is a sheep farm 3/4 of a square mile in size beside a pretty lake. That article spends an inordinately long time speculating that there's an "everything proof" structure been built on it but (as far as I saw skim reading) provides no evidence for that at all. You'd be hard pressed keeping that sort of construction quiet in NZ, everyone knows everyone.
- sjg007 6y ago
  He has citizenship and at least one house in NZ.
- seniorivn 6y ago
  have you watched BrBa? gus fringe fegured it out
- jessaustin 6y ago
  .75 sq mile is 480 acres. That is a truly large property, especially in this context.
  - merpnderp 6y ago
    If it’s good land you’d be pressed to run a hundred head of cattle on it. It qualifies as a tiny ranch.
    - jessaustin 6y ago
      It's not West Texas; it's Otago on South Island.
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
I smell a hilarious post-apocalypse remake of The Odd Couple coming up!
sn41 6y ago
NZ is a great country with wonderful people. But I wonder about the wisdom of apocalypse-proof property on an island that is prone to earthquakes. I have seen how far the waterfront receded in the 1931 Napier earthquake. [1] Christchurch has still not fully recovered from the 2010 earthquake. When you think of "geological" or "tectonic" shifts in the landscape, we are not used to thinking in the order of decades. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake#/media/File:Ahuriri_Lagoon_map_before_after_1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake_crude.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake#/m...
fanatic2pope 6y ago
If I lived in NZ I'd make a note of these dipshits' addresses. Worse comes to worse, they'll make for a great supply of resources to plunder. At least if you get there before their employees/body guards kill them and steal all their stuff first.

glaucon 6y ago

No love for Thiel or the mechanism by which he gained a NZ residency visa but the reality is the property in question is a sheep farm 3/4 of a square mile in size beside a pretty lake. That article spends an inordinately long time speculating that there's an "everything proof" structure been built on it but (as far as I saw skim reading) provides no evidence for that at all. You'd be hard pressed keeping that sort of construction quiet in NZ, everyone knows everyone.

sjg007 6y ago
He has citizenship and at least one house in NZ.
seniorivn 6y ago
have you watched BrBa? gus fringe fegured it out
jessaustin 6y ago
.75 sq mile is 480 acres. That is a truly large property, especially in this context.
- merpnderp 6y ago
  If it’s good land you’d be pressed to run a hundred head of cattle on it. It qualifies as a tiny ranch.
  - jessaustin 6y ago
    It's not West Texas; it's Otago on South Island.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

I smell a hilarious post-apocalypse remake of The Odd Couple coming up!

sn41 6y ago

NZ is a great country with wonderful people. But I wonder about the wisdom of apocalypse-proof property on an island that is prone to earthquakes. I have seen how far the waterfront receded in the 1931 Napier earthquake. [1] Christchurch has still not fully recovered from the 2010 earthquake. When you think of "geological" or "tectonic" shifts in the landscape, we are not used to thinking in the order of decades. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake#/media/File:Ahuriri_Lagoon_map_before_after_1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake_crude.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke's_Bay_earthquake#/m...

fanatic2pope 6y ago

If I lived in NZ I'd make a note of these dipshits' addresses. Worse comes to worse, they'll make for a great supply of resources to plunder. At least if you get there before their employees/body guards kill them and steal all their stuff first.