I hope the German ans EU labour laws atleast make the working conditions bearable. Working at TSMC is hellish. I worked as a tool vendor. It was crazy.
Rather hypocritical since the best Supercomputers in the US are often used for military purposes. For example the ones at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Keep The Aspidistra Flying is my favorite Orwell book atleast his among his fiction. I have read it atleast thrice. Among the Non Fictions I loved Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia which is perhaps my favorite.
The result of running universities like a business. People are more concerned about publications and conference and funding than actual science which is slow and unremarkable most of the time.
There should be a law banning this offloading of expenses directly to the customers. Uber earns enought to pay it's drivers fairly. It's basically doing what the super car manufacturers did when EU slapped them with penalty for fuel ineffeciency, they just transferred it to the customers by raising the prices of the cars.