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Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by fumblertzu »

jvanderbot wrote: post #80
boudin wrote: post #55

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I believe that an atmosphere compatible with human life is a bit more useful than internet by satelite. The fact that the impact of re-entry of satelites is absolute insane. Any good engineering company would study the whole impact of scaling up before doing so. The fact that spacex didn't do that is really worrying and regulation should come to stop what they are doing asap until the impact is better understood. Som…

I am not aware of threats to the atmosphere from the entry at a 100kg/day scale. And nobody is. At this point risks are hypothetical to the ozone or other layers.

if the aersols do cause any problems we're done for quite a while as they do not seem to come down. As I understand it the amount of aerosol will be quite significant in this layer of athmosphere. https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by munk-a »

leetharris wrote: post #77
leakycap wrote: post #3

All this so a handful of passengers a week can wait for the extremely small pool of vehicles in a dusty hole

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As someone who works enthusiastically on new ground breaking technology... a dumb idea is a dumb idea - and when we pour this many resources into a dumb idea it prevents us from funding good ideas.

This tunnel has been used as a continued excuse for NIMBYism to block an extension of the monorail which is the actual solution that Las Vegas needs. In fact, the entire boring company appears to, after the fact, have been an effort dedicated solely to derailing SoCal high speed rail efforts.

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by anigbrowl »

Seattle3503 wrote: post #65
miltonlost wrote: post #40

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> if you are just shilling for polluting billionaires. What an acidic thing to fling. I want us to build infrastructure. Nowhere did I say we need do whatever Musk says. I want us to use cost-benefit analysis to judge infrastructure projects rather than the heavy moral framing we get a lot.

It's a parody of your comment, which ascribes all environmental regulation to NIMBYs. If you blow a raspberry and someone blows a similar one right back at you, maybe you earned it.

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by torstenvl »

lukan wrote: post #72
torstenvl wrote: post #48

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Do you think that isn't how it works? The guy who gets busted for possession of 1g of cocaine might get 10-30 days, depending on jurisdiction, judge, and prior record. Do you think the dealer who gets caught with 5 kilos gets between 137 and 410 years?

"1g of cocaine might get 10-30 days" Source please. Otherwise there is a significant difference between using and selling.

Source is my own two decades working in the criminal justice system, as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney. But perhaps your experience as an attorney differs from mine.

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by [deleted] »

skopje wrote: post #89
correlator wrote: post #63

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Out of curiosity, have you ever attempted to create something from scratch and bring it to market? Not as an employee, but as someone trying to figure it out? Your work history will impact the way you view this issue IMO.

Yes. 28 years ago I founded a small a software company (4 employees) that made test software for a Tier 1 automotive vendor's ECUs. I sold the IP to them in 2007. Next question? Or do you think my background makes my opinion invalid for another reason?

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Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

recursive4 wrote: post #30

800 environment violations in service of the development of modern subterranean transportation is a utilitarian trade I'll take any day of the week.

i don't think trading irreparable environmental harm for Private Car Hole is utilitarian.

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by jmuguy »

ETH_start wrote: post #69

I think the big picture here is much more important. If tunneling technology is radically improved, we're going to see massive improvements in urban living, including: • Cleaner air at street level because vehicle exhaust stays underground and can be filtered, which would have massive health and environmental benefits • Quieter cities with most traffic noise eliminated • Cooler temperatures since asphalt and vehicle…

What evidence is there that "tunneling technology", or lack thereof, is holding anything back?

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

guywithahat wrote: post #136
regularjack wrote: post #75

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You only say this because you're not the one suffering the consequences

The consequence being additional underground public transport?

isn't this for cars? as in, private transport? and isn't it specifically for one brand of car?

Re: Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

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Post by [deleted] »

ceejayoz wrote: post #134
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #130

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> This is getting downvoted “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's a significant difference between "waaah meanies downvoting" and "no really folks, this is an actual thing".

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