what did he say?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 December 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
Good luck, vegeta. Get a basket.
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Thursday, 13 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Wired feature: “He was always a mad genius, but he was about 95 percent genius and 5 percent mad.” That summer, possibly due to the breakup with Heard and the stress from the Model 3, the “ratio started to shift, and by the fall it was totally inverted.”
― mick signals, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 17:01 (five years ago) link
hahaha look at this thing
Elon Musk's tunneling company unveiled its 1.14-mile tunnel in Los Angeles County tonight, and I rode through it in a Tesla SUV. It was a bumpy ride! More here, check back for updates: https://t.co/JBEy6e8NcZ pic.twitter.com/8sSUGGwDM5— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) December 19, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
Wait they dug a tunnel just, like, because?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
Part of the company’s goal, he said, is to create a tunneling process that will be 15 times faster than the “next best” option.
ok man good luck
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:48 (five years ago) link
Yeah Hitachi heavy industries or whoever has definitely not spent any time trying to make their tunnel boring machines faster, it’s probably low-hanging fruit
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
Building the 1.14-mile tunnel took about 18 months and cost about $10 million, Musk said. The figure does not include the costs of research, development or equipment, the company said, and it is not clear whether it includes the money spent on property acquisition or labor. The $10 million is still orders of magnitude lower than a typical subway project, Musk said.
its not a subway tunnel............but itd be cool if it was
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
http://www.hitachizosen.co.jp/english/products/products024.html
These are obviously easy to understand and improve on
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
tbh a determined person of wealth cld prob figure out how to build subways cheaper than we do considering the whole freakin rest of the world does
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
just driving underground, red faced, shouting "excellence is a passing grade in this tunnel. cylindrical coordinates are the coordinates in this tunnel."
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
One of the most annoying things we're going to be subjected to over the next few weeks is fanboys celebrating Elon Musk's invention of Tunnel Boring Machines, a technology that has existed for 150 years.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) December 15, 2018
Being able to cost-effectively bore underground tunnels is great, and something the USA is not very good at doing, but it's not exactly a high-tech problem with high-tech solutions.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) December 15, 2018
The Boring Company, I'm fairly certain, is not doing anything innovative! They just bought an off-the-shelf TBM and are... operating it. Fine! Tunnels are neat. But it's like not really anything new or interesting.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) December 15, 2018
i mean if he makes it cheaper good for him. but the problems in the US are not technical so i'm not optimistic but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the car skate is stupid though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
kayne and elon shld link up
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
my boretiful dark tunneled fantasy
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
lots of weird wired anecdotes
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:44 (five years ago) link
The figure does not include the costs of research, development or equipment, the company said, and it is not clear whether it includes the money spent on property acquisition or labor.
So...$10m for? Musk's walking around money?
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
One of the things that makes his tunnels faster is that they are too small to put any useful in like a train or a bus.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
isn't the aim that there'll be some kind of car-train in it though?
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
yes, so he’s building something that doesn’t exist and won’t efficiently move people, but he’s building it faster
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
https://la.curbed.com/2018/12/18/18147366/elon-musk-tunnel-tesla-test-opening-grimes
Boring Company estimates noted that 4,000 cars will be able to use a tunnel per hour. Comparatively, on-street transit like light rail or buses traveling in dedicated lanes can move 10,000 to 25,000 people per hour, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials.
this is so unbelievably stupid.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
lmao
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
New Boring Company documents shared at the event showed not just a network of tunnels connecting Los Angeles destinations, but diagrams of dozens of tunnels stacked three to four levels deep.It called to mind a phenomenon transportation planners call “induced demand,” where building more capacity, like adding lanes to freeways, ends up creating more congestion.Musk was skeptical of the idea of induced demand.“I think it’s a red herring,” he said. “No matter how much demand there is, you can satisfy it with a network of 3D tunnels... If you have 20, 30, 40 tunnels, eventually you run out of people to use them.”
New Boring Company documents shared at the event showed not just a network of tunnels connecting Los Angeles destinations, but diagrams of dozens of tunnels stacked three to four levels deep.
It called to mind a phenomenon transportation planners call “induced demand,” where building more capacity, like adding lanes to freeways, ends up creating more congestion.
Musk was skeptical of the idea of induced demand.
“I think it’s a red herring,” he said. “No matter how much demand there is, you can satisfy it with a network of 3D tunnels... If you have 20, 30, 40 tunnels, eventually you run out of people to use them.”
got this response from the GM of LADOT (i.e. not someone irrelevant to this project)
The cost of the tunnel is low because the tunnel is small. You need dozens of tunnels for non-stop A to B trips (and to solve for the “red herring” of induced demand what). At what point does the tunnel of tunnels reach the mines of Moria and the cost point of an actual subway?— Seleta Reynolds (@seletajewel) December 19, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
this is dumb as fuck
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
i want musk to read power broker before he's allowed to talk to garcetti again
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
elon like fucken rocks hes the real punk rock for our generation
Slappa da basspic.twitter.com/pmTFPmfkNT— ★★★★☆ (@petel) December 19, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Duyu5WaUYAIVSHw.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
worst ride in Disneyland tbh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Boring Company estimates noted that 4,000 cars will be able to use a tunnel per hour.
If UK Tesla drivers are anything to go by this will be 4,000 dicks going thru the tunnel because they can.
― Ned Trifle X, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
Need to wait for an hour to have the guide wheels bolted on.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Ha
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/visionary-brain-genius-elon-musk-has-invented-the-world-1831210269
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Whadda douche
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
tax writeoff
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Are they made out of clean water
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
"A $480,350 donation by the Musk Foundation announced in October is now being used to pay for water filtration systems in all 12 Flint school buildings and the administration building.
School board members approved the purchase Wednesday night of water cooler/bottle filler systems from Industry, Calif.-based Murdock Manufacturing for $221,000. The systems include water fountains and water coolers for students.
A request for proposal for water system installation is set to come in early 2019, with installation expected to be completed by February."
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
more tax writeoffs
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Do you know what that means?
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
But musk does. And he's the one writing it off.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
IDGI Are you guys advocating for repealing the charitable tax deduction?
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
and yeah anyone who makes over a certain threshold should be ineligible for the charitable tax deduction (see: Bill Gates)
I advocate for repealing the charitable tax deduction and replacing it with a charitable 95% tax rate on unearned income
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
4,000 per hour? How small are these cars?https://0419308.netsolhost.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shriners-parades.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
oh. sorry caek :(
― StanM, Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character― sleeve, Thursday, December 20, 2018 7:30 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, December 20, 2018 7:30 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm not sure why I keep defending the guy, but I guess it's just because you guys are so quick to find some kind of evil motive behind everything he does.
When you donate to charity, you get to deduct it from your taxes. So, effectively, you are getting the government to use tax dollars to help fund some charitable cause. You don't get your money back! You don't then get to slip into some lower tax bracket (AFAIK). Not sure how paying for clean water for Flint schoolkids became some kind of diabolical plot in your mind.
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
i think the motive is usually intense stupidity rather than evil.
it's ok to donate money. as with all Big Philaonthropy, it would be better if he used his influence to advocate for a social safety net, better governance, and mass transit though. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
xp a foundation donation is not the same as a personal one - foundations *have* to give a minimum amount away each year or get fined.
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Ok...
― DJI, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
elon musp
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 December 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
rode in a Tesla yesterday and the driver was very excited to show me an "easter egg" where if you crank the turn signal so many times it turns the road into a rainbow on the screen and plays the "need more cowbell" SNL skit for like 2 minutes
not only is that embarrassing I imagine it's somewhat of a safety risk? I mean if I was driving home at midnight and my car started doing that I'd probably drive right off the road
― frogbs, Friday, 21 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link