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Pretty impressive so far, but needs more testing.

It is more useful than Qwen3.8:27b (which is already quite good) and runs faster on my 7900 XTX / 64 GB DDR4 system.

Local LLM is getting more exciting every day!

This score specifically means that given some specific conditions, anyone can execute code over the network on a vulnerable WordPress setup. Is this not true?

> Almost every part of the world economy seems designed to punish every member for not being born rich and a celebrity at birth.

> Most followed on Instagram - Christiano Ronaldo (635m)

Christiano Ronaldo was not born rich. He was born in a poor family in a poor region of one of the poorest EU country in the 80's.

Then again on the same example, compare life expectancy in France and the USA, which is 4 years longer in France. Spain is doing even better with a lower GDP. There is correlation, but there are many other factors at play.

The average salary for public researchers in France (only PhDs) is 47 k€ per year. Most PhDs end up in public research, as the private research sector is very small.

This is gross salary, on which you need to deduce social contributions (social security, retirement, unemployment insurance, and others) and usually reduces by 20% the gross salary. Then you get to pay income taxes in this net salary, which is around 10% of the net salary.

Note that sick leave is not paid by the employer, but by social security (the employer can complement). Social security here is the public healthcare and retirement system.

I am a software developer, I've relocated from US to France within the same company, and was paid 3 times less in the same role. As the private sector has extra contributions before gross pay, I estimate the employer cost is around 2 to 2.5 times lower in my case in France than in the US.

It is now also easier to fire people in France (probable the same in other EU countries) due to recent changes in employment law.

Each EU country is going to have a slightly different pay structure, but that gives you some comparison basis.

So overall I think the 2-3x ratio in skilled worker cost in EU vs US is a good estimate.

Taïwan had 0.00% of worldwide capacity in 2013? This looks innacurate.

Even with removing regulations, you still have a limit to how dense a city can be.

> The authors ask the obvious question: if homebuilding is a competitive industry, then why don’t prices fall to the cost of building a home?

Well in dense cities, it's all about the land value.

Every country has seen increase in rent and property values in their largest city. Meanwhile value in rural area and not attractive cities is also dropping in many parts of the world.

Is this because of regulation? Probably not as it is happening in various countries with different law and policies.

It's probably more about where people want to live and the centralization of economy to only a few large cities. In Europe to get the best jobs you have to move to London, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam. Those cities are getting more and more expensive. In the US, SF, Seattle, New-York (and I miss others) see the same phenomena.

So limiting this to "that's a regulation" issue looks pretty narrow sighted. If your model doesn't work, change the model instead of trying to change the world to suit your model.

To be able to legally work in France, an American citizen would need a work visa which requires to have a local work contract. So they would have to follow French regulations.

It also includes a minimum of 5 weeks vacation and 2 weeks of PTO, too bad!

> said Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission

Fake!