Elon Musk

spoilers for ready player 1
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it is bad

but what does god need with a star war

So saying he dismissed them; they with speed
Their course through thickest constellations held,
Spreading their bane; the blasted stars looked wan,
And planets, planet-struck, real eclipse
Then suffered. The other way Satan went down
The causey to Hell-gate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfLjsXmwYw

what did he say?

Good luck, vegeta. Get a basket.

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.”

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

Wait they dug a tunnel just, like, because?

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

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

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

http://www.hitachizosen.co.jp/english/products/products024.html

These are obviously easy to understand and improve on

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

just driving underground, red faced, shouting "excellence is a passing grade in this tunnel. cylindrical coordinates are the coordinates in this tunnel."

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.

kayne and elon shld link up

my boretiful dark tunneled fantasy

lots of weird wired anecdotes

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?

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.

isn't the aim that there'll be some kind of car-train in it though?

yes, so he’s building something that doesn’t exist and won’t efficiently move people, but he’s building it faster

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.

my boretiful dark tunneled fantasy

lmao

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

this is dumb as fuck

i want musk to read power broker before he's allowed to talk to garcetti again

elon like fucken rocks hes the real punk rock for our generation

Slappa da basspic.twitter.com/pmTFPmfkNT

— ★★★★☆ (@petel) December 19, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Duyu5WaUYAIVSHw.jpg

lol

worst ride in Disneyland tbh

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.

Need to wait for an hour to have the guide wheels bolted on.

Ha

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/visionary-brain-genius-elon-musk-has-invented-the-world-1831210269

Whadda douche

tax writeoff

Are they made out of clean water

"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."

more tax writeoffs

Do you know what that means?

But musk does. And he's the one writing it off.

IDGI Are you guys advocating for repealing the charitable tax deduction?

we're saying that your examples are bad, and not persuasive as a testament to his alleged good character

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

4,000 per hour? How small are these cars?

https://0419308.netsolhost.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shriners-parades.jpg

oh. sorry caek :(

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

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.

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