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Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by nabla9 on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:30AM (#20915955)
It's rare to see superyacht that is tastefully designed and has interesting functionality.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by nextstep on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:44AM (#20916016)
The asking price is $325M, so no, I can’t buy Paul Allen’s yacht
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by weinzierl on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:01AM (#20916720)
A 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.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by vetinari on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:25AM (#20917877)
> 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.

Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by mayamatrix on Monday September 09, 2019 @10:55AM (#20918764)
Yes. And "a boat is just a hole in the water to pour money into".
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by barking on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:53AM (#20916052)
The potential market for this boat numbers under 1000 people or maybe even under 100 I'd say.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by Aeolun on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:22AM (#20916178)
Some of them may be on HN though?
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by barking on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:21AM (#20916504)
There's a thought, there's a lot of thoughts, actually!
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by trenning on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:17PM (#20920764)
From 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

Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by nradov on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:27PM (#20921457)
If you pay cash today they'd probably accept a lower offer. At least that's been my experience buying stuff on Craigslist.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by Jaruzel on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:13AM (#20915893)
I 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.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by peteretep on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:39AM (#20915992)
You can probably get a fancier yacht for the same price if you don't wanna do the research stuff.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by TYPE_FASTER on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:31PM (#20920283)
Well, you'd probably have to be on this list:

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.

Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by barking on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:48AM (#20916035)
You could imagine that the name was supposed to evoke James Bond because it certainly looks like something from a Bond movie.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by codeulike on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:15AM (#20916151)
Would suit James Cameron perhaps
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by vincengomes on Monday September 09, 2019 @08:16AM (#20917401)
James 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.

Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by codeulike on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:47AM (#20926536)
Wow, interesting
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by sunstone on Monday September 09, 2019 @05:12AM (#20916458)
Or, possibly Elon.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by rq1 on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:41AM (#20915998)
We’re in 2019 and there is still some websites that mess with the browser history and break the back button. (iOS/safari)
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by tpetry on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:54AM (#20916058)
It‘s not decreasing it‘s increasingand i think it‘s completely intentional. Happens more and more on sites with content designed to be shared.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by dannyw on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:00AM (#20916087)
Browsers 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.
Re:Paul Allen’s yacht “Octopus” is for sale by cookingrobot on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:07AM (#20918866)
The browsers should just fix it. Clicking back should skip over all those pages in the back-stack that I didn’t interact with.