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Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by PeterHolzwarth on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:23AM (#45863137)
Fines start small, then get big.
Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by viraptor on Sunday November 09, 2025 @12:47AM (#45863247)
That's the idea in general, but show us how that applies to this company. They're at ~800 violations https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/elon-musks-boring-compan...
Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by terminalshort on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:04AM (#45863318)
They didn't hire an inspector, and they counted each day they didn't hire the inspector as 700 different violations, so I don't really trust their reporting on this.
Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by Larrikin on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:48AM (#45863473)
Isn't that atleast one violation per day? 800 assumes they were perfect and committed zero violations other than not having an inspector, so it's inaccurate because it probably is undercounting significantly.
Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by viraptor on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:27AM (#45863627)
It's ~700 for inspections and ~100 for other things. Which I'm not sure why would anyone discount as not important. Especially since they may be avoiding more fines due to missing inspections.