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One other thing I haven't seen anyone tackle is to evaluate 'best' durable via first principles equations and engineering. Ex of a fridge: * Define the physics of how the product p…

Good prototype. To achieve your goal of best products in categories and subcategories, you will need a few things: * Universal equations that can be applied to all products or majo…

Q: How it can get so much better? Ans: From the most recent full presentation (pretty dated at this point Dec 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSIzsMlwMUY From 10:22mins in t…

Did a site search "boring site:eschatonblog.com" and read through top 30 or so hits. Didn't see any arguments that Boring Company is fundamentally wrong and can't succeed through t…

The selling point: If you want to live in a big city for its job and cultural opportunities but can't afford it, then this option is 10X cheaper. That makes this option very attrac…

Overall point: There is a potential solution to the housing crisis for almost every city. It is too early to tell if it will work. But it looks promising. Steps: 1) Build electric …

Agreed. I don't have all the numbers worked out but rough calculations show that it is doable and even profitable within an order of magnitude or so. Once the proof of a city to ci…

Agreed. The cost for underwater tunnels will be much higher - especially initially. Let's say they are 100X higher cost at $100mil/mile - that is still 1/30th the cost of a current…

These guys have some good videos on Boring Company tunnels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGG1nWzP-Oc&list=PLDn5j59RTW... The summary: the hard part of tunnels and people was wha…

The solution is to build dense housing (min. 20 story towers) with mixed commercial in the lower levels on cheap land ( This would completely change housing prices in cities. If SF…

YC has been trying a bunch of things new to them. Not sure how they are working out yet: * Supporting more hardware specific companies. * Supporting more biomed device tech compani…

If you want to use it for machine learning or VR/AR then it should ideally have a separate GPU board. Also nice to have: upgradable RAM, upgradable solid state drive bay.

Great product! But I almost quit your signup process. Forcing me to answer survey questions about my field and give my company name before I can see what your software can do makes…

I thought I took that into account: the compensatory damages were $55mil. One thousand lawsuits lost (assuming 90% victory rate and 10k original lawsuits) times $55mil ea is $55bil…

What does this do to the company's financial future? If there are thousands more of these lawsuits coming and the legal precedent has been set, and this one verdict took 40% of Bay…

I've used a Google Glass, Oculus Rift, Cardboard VR systems and seen a demo of Oculus Rift. Is the Lenovo ThinkReality a real competitor? The market hasn't picked up VR for gaming …

Great! Keep it up!

Fantastic product! Really great that you have been able to help people become empowered for themselves. Scale: Do you need help reducing the BOM costs? You could go for economies o…

I've spoken with multi-generation football family coaches, players who say that the sport is headed for an end. I'm not sure I believe that. It comes down to whether a safe helmet …

A promising idea! Would love to see screenshots of the actual software being used or have a trial version that is available.

What can the average person do to help the oceans that is easy to understand, everyone can do themselves and the government can sponsor with money? I'm thinking of something like p…

I'm having difficulty understanding how to use this. Is there a demo / example to view? I'm currently managing a team using Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel and Hotjar. How can I b…

This is the question I was really getting at: where is the site where I can go help beyond the ways that most people already know about? Where I can I volunteer my services to fix …

This particular effort seems to be a mix of fun, braggadocio, and altruism. Could this sort of thing be organized with a social network and a list of tasks/problems using a tool li…

Reverse supply chain disassembly into raw resources for reuse is not being done in any meaningful way except for a glass, some chips, paper, precious metals and a few other things.…