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Comment by ryanlol | Hacker News Reader

What's up with the hidden $857 "Labor/Shipping/Handling" charge? It seems a little out of place given that you guys already seem to be charging huge premiums on all the hardware.

This all seems really expensive compared to the local PC shops that seem to offer most of the components for less, while only charging ~100 euros for assembly and testing.

Do you guys have some really fancy cooling solution that you forgot to mention on the site?

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I think you were looking for "outrageously overpriced".

Pretty much, yeah. Though I'm still curious if getting your computers "Built by Researchers" has some novel advantages over "Built by Lawyers" or "Built by the guys at the local computer shop"

Perhaps the presence of smart Researchers while the computer is being born will make the machine better at learning, improving tensorflow performance?

It has me wondering if people are actually buying these from them. If so, undercutting their pricing would be trivial - and maybe an easy idea for a side business.

Form a distributed team, package the orders one at a time saying shamanic ML chants over them while burning incense, ship to happy customers. Write bloviating blog posts about 'AI' that incorrectly reduces an entire field to a de jure technique. Grow business, cash out after first enterprise capture. Rinse. Repeat.

"Each of our workstations is infused with playa dust from the temple at Burning Man before shipment"

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