[chadscira]

Oh, awesome. Hopefully they drastically reduce it.

[colechristensen]

I believe it started at 5 s/$

[thomasahle]

So they have increased their costs by nearly af factor 10?

[sylvinus]

I 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]

It 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]

Yes, 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.

[CydeWeys]

My best guess is that the operators of the vehicles, and perhaps the vehicles themselves, need to get back to their real jobs come Monday.

[throwaway729]

Probably the cost isn't amortized over a very long period of time so that some hours are much more expensive than others.

[yeldarb]

I think they will eventually level up and add more machines