The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees

Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by keyle on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:13PM (#16854564)

What does the boring company make? I saw bits of it as a bit of a joke... ?

Is it Musk's approach of making a traditional company and flipping it on its head?

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by DoreenMichele on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:45PM (#16855022)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_(earth)

The company name is somewhat tongue in cheek, but also apparently straight up literal in some sense.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by aerovistae on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:14PM (#16854883)

they make tunnels and outfit them for various modes of transportation. it's not a joke. i can't imagine any better way to make it clear that something isn't a joke than to put $100 million into it.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by dx034 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:59AM (#16856131)

Is $100m really enough to build a state of the art boring machine and get all equipment/labour to actually build a tunnel?

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by vegardx on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:57AM (#16856626)

That's just shy of the cost of building (drilling?) the longest road tunnel in the world, in Norway, which has really high labour costs. So I'd guess it goes a long way (pun intended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lærdal_Tunnel

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by nickik on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:27AM (#16856516)

Enough to get started and enough to get more money eventually. Its a market, lets see how it gone go.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by aerovistae on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:04AM (#16856422)

I have no idea what $100m is enough for, all I know is that Elon Musk gets more done per dollar than anyone else alive.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by AsyncAwait on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:25AM (#16857309)

Really? Care to give some examples?

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by aerovistae on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:53AM (#16866944)

Yes, SpaceX and Tesla.

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by AsyncAwait on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:36PM (#16887361)

You said words, but there's no substance, how does SpaceX and Tesla in any way prove that "Elon Musk gets more done per dollar than anyone else alive" exactly?

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by djrogers on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:41PM (#16854998)

Well, they take dirt and turn it in to a big, long, nothing. AKA a tunnel.

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