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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by stephen_g on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:53PM (#22071975)
It’s actually a fairly common trap to fall into - having expertise in one area and assuming you can jump into a completely different field and revolutionise it.

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t sometimes happen, but at this point there’s no evidence that the Boring Company is really doing anything particularly novel at this point...

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by nickik on Friday January 17, 2020 @04:41AM (#22073278)
The difference is that Elon had no experiance in cars or rockets. So he has shown the ability to go into a different field and change it.

SpaceX was also not really novel. Their engine, construction method and most things were pretty standard and not very impressive.

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