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Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 by epolanski on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:00PM (#50132243)
In southern Europe (Italy, Greece) that's well beyond 10% of the average pay.

And southern Europe isn't exactly the poorest region around.

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Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 by bagacrap on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:29PM (#50137671)
For a software engineer?

If you can get away with paying that much to a swe in Italy then why aren't Italian tech companies ruling the world on the back of ~free labor?

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