Lets_Eat_Grandma

can you going to mcdonalds twice a day be shared with your health insurer?

You think this data isn't already shared?

About a month after surgery the implant started to perform poorly. They tweaked some software settings and now it's running better than it did before the drop-off for a longer period, based on the actual blog post the story is talking about https://neuralink.com/blog/prime-study-progress-update-user-experience.

This is obviously prototype technology with insane risk. The guy only signed up because he's paraplegic. It's not in any way remotely ready for normal humans and probably won't ever be in our lifetimes. IMO this is like self driving technology, it's easy to promise the world but hard to actually accomplish what they say.

Why pay for the prime account? What are you getting out of it?

Have you done the math of what you could do with $140 per year instead?

I unsubbed from prime last year once the ads were announced on prime video.

There's no reason to have it anymore imo.

A VPN sub is like $40 a year and that lets me get any media I want.

Free Shipping without prime starts at orders over $35. Who doesn't spend at least $35 in 2024?

Does the hardware being all so arranged as it is in this manner to create a supercomputer make any difference to that evaluation?

The storage drives for all of this have been stripped. You can't just run commands on the hardware... you have to figure out how to cluster things with software, buy drives for it all, have it all installed in a datacenter somewhere which is going to cost way more than the purchase price.

The labor costs for the technical people required to do this are way more than half a million a year.

The piecemeal nature of selling thousands of parts means the wages for a group necessary to coordinate it all would probably make the whole thing not feasible.

Ebay prices are higher than market prices imo. 15% ebay cut + 3% paypal fees + sales tax + shipping is brutal.

I don't know why anyone would buy this. Maybe it's one of those precious metal reclamation groups.

Generally hardware that old is cheaper to replace with newer more efficient hardware than to even consider running due to electricity costs.

Publicly traded companies do not have a duty to pay their workers, they have a duty to pay their shareholders and to maximize profits.

If you can get the same job done overseas for less money why would you pay american labor? what's the benefit?

Not saying I like the system, just saying that's how it is. Gotta have some kind of fine or penalty for outsourcing, offshoring and 1099 contracting labor if you really want to fix it.

Shit should be changed but the majority election system is funded by the ownership class who greatly benefits from this not changing.

American google SWE wages: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-engineer?country=254

Munich SWE wages: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/munich-deu

10 * 350k of total comp is 3.5 million dollars... guessing the german counterparts probably get 120k of total comp so only 1.2 million dollars, assuming it's 1:1 staff swap.

Never heard of american software engineers at FAANG getting anything less than superstar sf bay wages, never heard of crazy wages in all of the EU for any kind of worker.... but maybe someone can correct me on the german team's salaries.