> The difference is that your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the total take home pay, because of high, compulsory labor taxes. In exchange, employees get as standard
So, France could be great to be an employee, but it's horrible for entrepreneurs.
> Good journals, in theory, are more selective about what they publish, so the assumption is that if you have publications in a good one you must have done more groundbreaking research.
I wonder why nobody created a single peer-reviewed platform for all scientists to use? Elsevier is just piggybacking on other people's work and funds.
Even if you know that, you don't really have an option to stop it. You can buy a smartphone with either Android or iOS - and both are spying on the user heavily.
> it works completely different in version N+1 that you should have upgraded to years ago, and btw, we're actually on N+3 now, so we are not going to fix old
That's not the case. The bugreport that they closed is still actual in the latest version.
Well, I think that it's not some arcane knowledge that nobody but enlightened can understand. Anyway, it's better to collect some information before talking to them.
Singapore looks like a good location wrt taxes and ease of doing business, but I may be missing something.
Because Intel paid them to not use AMD chips.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-wit...