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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 …

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 engineer…

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 th…

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.…

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 A…

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 t…

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…

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 "s…

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/c…

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. "Ho…

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 r…

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 be…

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 bind…

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 si…

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 repor…

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'…

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 gene…

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 …

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 eve…

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…

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 remor…

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 enoug…

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 d…

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 …

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 …