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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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