Searching the web, I found this thing for football updates:

https://dasfootball.com/

And in a generally quite good journal…

Well, science hippies and their humour ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, not that worse things haven’t passed the peer review…

Links or it didn’t go through the peer review

Is it? What do you mean by that?

Kommun workers use Windows or iOS. University workers use mainly Windows or iOS, though computer labs usually have Linux PCs. Still, the unis usually have their email service managed via Outlook or Gmail services. We have our own data storage, though, e.g., KTH still buys OneDrive. Similarly, we have our own computing clusters, and here, luckily, I have never heard of any Swedish researcher using AWS or anything like that.

I’ve heard good stuff about getting cash out, BUT: a) I have heard good stuff about getting out relatively small amounts of money. Getting large amounts of cash out might be more problematic, idk. Though now it works just as a bank, so it should be as problematic as any bank transfer is… b) For crypto, they explicitly say that there is a limit on how much you can transfer in a day/month. If you operate large amounts of money, this might be a pain (not my case).

You can use Revolut for crypto, if you do not care about anonymity. It is not a crypto wallet sensu stricto, but you can move coins between wallets and Revolut.

Revolut is British.

https://www.revolut.com/crypto/

unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies

We need to be careful about this point. We cannot let Trump push the EU to be even milder on Big Tech perpetually breaking all kinds of EU laws (e.g., GDPR, Digital Markets Act). This is about our basic rights, and about an internet that works more for its users and builders, and less for its “owners.”

Overall. I wonder, if somebody gives me a Lambo, can I sell it, buy a bus, and drive friends in it?

I wonder which one is more expensive, a new Lamborghini or a new bus.

You mean just take the bus?

Yes, but… Let’s say papers A, B, and C are introducing methods. Often, each paper will choose to show the benchmarks in which their tool was the best. In reality, each tool might be better for a different task. If you understand the tools, and have gotten used to this kind of papers, you will probably get what each tool is good for. But the papers themselves are misleading, and people often just blindly use the “cutting edge” for everything.

And I agree. If you have to, for some reason, book a taxi in a European city, you will often get it sooner with Bolt than Uber (my experience from Poland). It is partially because Bolt gives more to the drivers, and they have both apps. It has scooters and Bolt Food. It is available in many places outside of Europe, but unfortunately not Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(company)#/media/File:Countries_in_which_Bolt_operates,_Nov_2024.png

*Bolt

"I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.”

This sounds like basically every description of modern digital/statistical tool

Only recently, I watched The Wind Rises and I loved it. I do not know what it is. It still has the sensitivity and the aesthetics of Ghibli under Miyazaki, which I genuinely love, but at the same time shows a confusing and unobvious real-life story, and very real dilemmas.

To be honest, Merz would probably do that with or without Trump in power. It is an issue, but it is another issue…

Yeah, totally. And there are many, many top scientists already in Europe.

The thing is that to do research, you need money. Not just your (and your staff’s) salary. Experimental research requires actual, material resources. Cutting-edge equipment and reagents. If more top scientists come to Europe, but the resources for research do not increase, it is hard to imagine more top research being done.

The UE spends around 2.2/2.3% of GDP on research and development:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?oldid=551418 (2021 for fair comparison) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20221129-1

Meanwhile, in the US, it was almost 3.5% (of the larger total GDP), and in China, more than 2.4%.

I believe we have a lot of amazing research in Europe. Possibly the best fundamental research in the world, amazing sustainability and climate-related project, growing focus on open access and reproducibility from funding agencies. We all know science pays off in the long term. Let it grow!

Very small, but good start. (Just the National Science Foundation in the US had the budget of $9BN last year, compared to €2.3BN of European Research Council, so it is not even close to filling the gap).