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 performs over its life: physics of door…
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 major categories of products for what is…
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 the video: * Increase speed: automated…
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 the limitations of physics. Valid…
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 attractive. Especially if you choose a town…
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 cars (exhaust gases in tunnels kill…
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 city test tunnel is completed, probably…
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 tunnel in San Francisco at $3bil/mile.…
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 what to do with exhaust gases. That's…
The solution is to build dense housing (min. 20 story towers) with mixed commercial in the lower levels on cheap land (<1/100th the cost of city land) within 50 miles of cities and then run Boring Company tunnels to…
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 companies. * Scaling online with startup…
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 me not want to sign up.
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 $55billion in losses. With their current debt…
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 Bayer's cash position away, how can they…
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 and AR has flopped so far. How about…
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 of scale (and reuse 75% of the same BOM)…
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 can be made or whether a CTE treatment…
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 planting trees: order a free tree…
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 benefit from Avo? From what I…
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. We really need a large upgrade in the…
Could be useful to apply machine learning or a neural net to see patterns here. Examples: * There are many new words being generated in spacecraft design. Conclusions: this part of engineering and science is advancing…
Glad Anne Wojcicki, CoveredCA and Legal Aid were able to step in and help. There are some specific problems highlighted in the article that could be fixed by software startups: 1) Problem: Difficulty to identify a…
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 performs over its life: physics of door…
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 major categories of products for what is…
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 the video: * Increase speed: automated…
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 the limitations of physics. Valid…
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 attractive. Especially if you choose a town…
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 cars (exhaust gases in tunnels kill…
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 city test tunnel is completed, probably…
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 tunnel in San Francisco at $3bil/mile.…
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 what to do with exhaust gases. That's…
The solution is to build dense housing (min. 20 story towers) with mixed commercial in the lower levels on cheap land (<1/100th the cost of city land) within 50 miles of cities and then run Boring Company tunnels to…
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 companies. * Scaling online with startup…
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 me not want to sign up.
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 $55billion in losses. With their current debt…
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 Bayer's cash position away, how can they…
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 and AR has flopped so far. How about…
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 of scale (and reuse 75% of the same BOM)…
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 can be made or whether a CTE treatment…
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 planting trees: order a free tree…
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 benefit from Avo? From what I…
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. We really need a large upgrade in the…
Could be useful to apply machine learning or a neural net to see patterns here. Examples: * There are many new words being generated in spacecraft design. Conclusions: this part of engineering and science is advancing…
Glad Anne Wojcicki, CoveredCA and Legal Aid were able to step in and help. There are some specific problems highlighted in the article that could be fixed by software startups: 1) Problem: Difficulty to identify a…