readittwice

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by readittwice 3y ago
Can someone explain how "I have my whole genome sequenced by Nebula" relates to the news just now that "The human Y chromosome has been completely sequenced"? How can someone have their whole (!) genome sequenced already
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by readittwice 4y ago
Since there are people here that seem to know a bit about this stuff, I will take the chance to ask some naive questions ;) Do I have this right that CAR T-cells have this engineered B-cell/antibody like receptor that recognizes antige
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by readittwice 5y ago
There are plenty of articles from May 2020 that all discuss in various words that a deal was struck. If you believe that AZ didn't sign a contract with the UK before Aug 28 then the burden is on you to prove that.
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by readittwice 5y ago
It is well known that AZ sells the vaccine at cost. E.g. "... is being offered by the drugmaker at cost during the pandemic and at no profit in perpetuity for low-income countries." [1] That's because the vaccine was develope
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by readittwice 5y ago
The president could prevent that though and could ask for a re-election in case of a candidate change after the election. So not nothing ;) Almost no one would argue that because AFAIK that never happened. Pretty sure people would argue tha
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by readittwice 5y ago
That article was clearly published in May 2020, I don't assume AZ sneaked that article in. Are you really saying that AZ was faking the press release in May 2020, so that in 2021 they could claim that the UK signed the contract three m
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by readittwice 5y ago
IMHO that sentence doesn't prove your point that "The link also says they wouldn't export EU manufactured vaccines". AZ is selling at cost, so they are not making a profit from the vaccine atm. So that statement should b
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by readittwice 5y ago
Oh right, that's true. Sorry. He is now still a European civil servant though. In my defense, I quickly googled his name and that's what popped out first. On TV was announced as "spokesperson of the European Commission",
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by readittwice 5y ago
No, I've already posted the article that states that the UK signed the contract with AZ in May. There are also other news articles from May 2020 ( https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/coronavirus-astrazeneca-ai
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by readittwice 5y ago
Again, this is simply not true. Yes, the UK signed one particular contract on Aug 28, so one day after the EU with AZ. However, the UK had a binding contract with AZ since May. "However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZ
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by readittwice 5y ago
True, the EU even waived its right to sue because delivery delays. "And as POLITICO reported last week, the non-redacted version of the contract shows that the EU also waived its right to sue AstraZeneca in the event of delivery delays
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by readittwice 5y ago
I agree with that. However, Martin Selmayr (Secretary-General of the European Commission) recently explained on TV that the slower approval was the reason that the EU is lagging behind the US in vaccations. Well, obviously that slower appro
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by readittwice 5y ago
Again: No, the UK had a binding contract with AZ since May already. "However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZeneca made back in May with the U.K., which was a binding deal establishing “the development of a dedicated s
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by readittwice 5y ago
No, this isn't FUD. AZ wasn't lying. Yes, it's true that the EU signed one particular contract one day before the UK on August 27. However, the UK had a binding contract with AZ since May already. "However, the key lies
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by readittwice 6y ago
Those numbers don't make sense to me, it claims that Safari would use 73M of memory with both Twitter and Gmail. But locally on my machine I see that Activity Monitor already reports 490M of memory usage just for the Gmail process of S
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by readittwice 6y ago
I don't have confidence that (in the case of the EU) the same politicians that just claimed that they couldn't foresee any problems with mass production, did everything they could've done to ramp up production last summer. On
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by readittwice 6y ago
In that particular interview, I tend to agree. However I've seen/read multiple other interviews and talk shows where EU politicians talk quite differently. They may admit some general mistakes (without naming one) but still disput
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by readittwice 6y ago
I can absolutely imagine that scaling production is extremely hard. However I don't have confidence that the same politicians that just claimed that they couldn't foresee problems with mass production did everything in their power
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by readittwice 6y ago
Aside from that: The US, UK and Israel have all proven that it is possible to do better than the EU here. They didn't know as well and ordered way sooner and more. AFAIR the UK even recently claimed that they vaccinated more people tha
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by readittwice 6y ago
The EU bet pretty heavily on AstraZeneca and that's not the Eastern European countries fault. The EU already ordered in August, while they only ordered from Biontech and Moderna in November (11th and 25th). It wasn't wrong to buy
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by readittwice 6y ago
Unfortunately the EU still communicates there is no problem with the procurement but only with evil pharmaceutical companies not delivering as promised. There will not be any remorse. It really must hurt them that even the heavily criticize
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by readittwice 6y ago
Absolutely, however the EU's politicians are playing dumb and claim that they couldn't foresee that mass production could be a problem. The EU ordered too late and simply not enough. Now they are trying to blame everyone else for
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by readittwice 6y ago
There is the caveat that generated machine code can embed addresses of objects that get relocated by the GC. In this case the code needs to be patched even though the code itself doesn't move.
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by readittwice 6y ago
I don't really know that particular GC, but not necessarily. Code objects are usually stored in a separate area and might be managed differently than regular objects. So a copying GC might not relocate code - maybe not even collect it.
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by readittwice 6y ago
Releasing memory is definitely useful for mobile devices or browsers. Even in some server use cases it's useful, e.g. when you pay for memory usage. I guess that's why the JVM has this -XX:SoftMaxHeapSize option. I guess it depend
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by readittwice 6y ago
> What LLVM has going for it versus GCC, is the license, specially beloved by embedded vendors and companies like Sony, Nintendo, SN Systems, CodePlay can save some bucks in compiler development. The license is probably considered an adv
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by readittwice 6y ago
> Maybe dial it back a bit with the challenge to point at literature. The literature has not really caught up with the existence of WASM yet. It wasn't me who claimed that WASM is "obviously" a register machine, despite th
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by readittwice 6y ago
I have to admit this line seems arbitrary to me. So WASM is a register machine to you but if they would simply add those 2 instruction would it suddenly become a stack machine then? Those instructions would actually be trivial to add. I thi
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by readittwice 6y ago
I would still consider WASM a stack machine and not a register machine. Yes, there are mutable local variables in WASM but Java bytecode has them as well - which you consider a stack machine. BTW the designers of WASM explicitly call WASM a
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by readittwice 7y ago
Maybe, however remember that you then need to buy new hardware to use new WASM features. Also WASM isn't really ideal for interpretation, this could make implementing the CPU harder (however I have no clue about implementing CPUs, so t

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