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This is crazy awesome! I just wanted to do a cost breakdown: 0.6s/$ is $6,000/hour (thanks @danielvf). The excavator is around $2000/day[1]. The truck is aro
by dorianm 10y ago
This is crazy awesome! I just wanted to do a cost breakdown:
0.6s/$ is $6,000/hour (thanks @danielvf).
The excavator is around $2000/day[1].
The truck is around $2200/day[2].
Plus at least two operators with $200/day each[3].
And then the cost of Stripe's fees, buying the land, getting a permit (?), etc.
[1]: http://www.rentalyard.com/listings/construction-equipment/for-rent/list/category/1032/excavators-crawler/manufacturer/caterpillar/model-group/345 http://www.rentalyard.com/listings/construction-equipment/fo...
[2]: http://www.rentalyard.com/listings/construction-equipment/for-rent/list/category/1049/off-highway-trucks/manufacturer/caterpillar/model-group/740 http://www.rentalyard.com/listings/construction-equipment/fo...
[3]: http://gcsenergy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-Hourly-Rate-Schedule-Revision-1.pdf http://gcsenergy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-Hourly-R...
- ilogik 10y agoI don't think that's correct
- eps 10y agoThere is also a bulldozer.
- dorianm 10y agoThanks, I didn't see it. So the bulldozer is also around $2,000/day.
- danielvf 10y agoThe income is $6,000 an hour. Making this wildly profitable.
- johan_larson 10y agoI wonder what they are going to do with the money.
- whiddershins 10y agoThey are digging around the clock so the operators need to be x3
- raverbashing 10y agoAh I think they might have gotten the weekly fee on the equipment, which is much cheaper (5k p.w. as opposed to 2k p.d. as an example)
- yincrash 10y agoThe cost per second changes over time. When I first saw the site yesterday afternoon, it was 2.2s / $.
- chadscira 10y agoOh, awesome. Hopefully they drastically reduce it.
- colechristensen 10y agoI believe it started at 5 s/$
- thomasahle 10y agoSo they have increased their costs by nearly af factor 10?
- throwaway729 10y agoProbably the cost isn't amortized over a very long period of time so that some hours are much more expensive than others.
- sylvinus 10y agoI don't think it has anything to do with the actual cost of digging. IMHO the primary reason is they don't want to keep digging for weeks. By baking in an artificial cost increase they make sure this will stop after a couple days maximum.
- CydeWeys 10y agoIt seems like they settled on a fixed maximum time of hole-digging, and are drastically increasing the cost so as to not exceed it.
- johan_larson 10y agoYes, they seem to have set the digging period in advance. Somehow that seems dishonest to me. If they knew they were going to dig for 48 hours come what may, they should have said so.
- frogpelt 10y agoOr is it more likely they found someone who was already digging a hole and asked to be able to video it?
- ethbro 10y agoBut they promised the hole was being dug for no reason!
- dawnerd 10y agoIt would be funny if they did a second part where they turned the hole into a pool and just filled it with money. Sounds like something they'd do.
- aaron-santos 10y agoSurely you jest. That's dangerously close to the money hole[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
- chadscira 10y agoThey are charging us too much for time! We need the gates foundation to donate a billion, that should get us 31 years on the clock.
- c3RlcGhlbnI_ 10y agoThe time added per donated donated dollar is decreasing towards a limit. The subreddit seems to think that it is designed to max out at 48 hours total.
- tim333 10y agoThe land apparently cost $25k and is in Oregon Illinois. I guess they can sell it on with the famous hole in. http://www.wifr.com/content/news/Cards-Against-Humanity-Holiday-Hole-maybe-in-the-Stateline-403084936.html http://www.wifr.com/content/news/Cards-Against-Humanity-Holi...