Electricity prices have been wild this winter in Finland. When typical prices are around 5cnt per KWH, now prices have averaged above 20cnt, and peaks have been over 1 euro. The issue is that during cold windless winter days no practical amount of renewables can provide the electricity needed.

Ivermectin is a bit more promising that what most think.

First, NIH stance is no data for or against. This was upgraded from do not use in Feb.

There's strong support from preclinical and observational data (ICON, Mexico City hospitalizations study). Outpatient RCTs 7/7 trend for ivermectin. (Chaccour, Raad, Lopez-Medina, Vallejos, Schwartz, Ravkiriti, Reis).

Ingesting animal formulations is stupid. But off label use if doc and patient agree seems all ok, especially knowing ivm has better safety profile than tylenol.

If you are looking for preclinical studies then look at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.embopress.org%2Fdoi%2F... From Institute Pasteur Paris, top tier auhtors, conclusion is that ivermectin has good immunomodulating efficacy in the golden hamster against Covid-19, but no antiviral efficacy.

Check out interview of Edward Mills in Halifax Examiner (not sure what I can link, keywords for search "Edward Mills Examiner"). He's the principal investigator in TOGETHER trial, a gold standard random controlled trial trying to find repurposed drugs for Covid-19. The trial has done first interim review, that is they have taken a look at data from first patients already. Here's what he says about ivermectin: "If indeed this drug has a treatment effect — and I am very optimistic that it will". He's also saying he doesn't believe it's antiviral, and that the efficacy is likely less than 75 percent seen in some reviews.

And then another large RCT, COVID-OUT in Canada, and here's a quote from Minnesota Daily article "UMN receives $1.5 million for COVID-19 treatment trial" (keywords "minnesota daily ivermectin"):

The whole point of this game is that the shorts can't cover. There's not enough stock on market with all the wsb's buying no matter the price and then holding. The hedge funds shorted more than 100% of available stock. Now they pay for their stupidity.

By that logic congress could mandate that all telephone calls must be transmitted at twice the light speed. It is up to the experts to make that law a reality.

In other words, congress must take technical realities in account when making laws. They should ask technical experts if the proposed law is feasible.

I just installed Firefox nightly (8.0a1, 2011-08-14). Adblock Plus, NoScript and HTTPS everywhere are working, Ubuntu Extension is not. Ubuntu extension is also disable as an auto-installed extension.

The memory consumption seems to be under control also, but too early to say. Currently the memory usage is 110-120Mb with one hour of use time and about 10 tabs open. I hope it is not 500Mb after a weeks use.

Your queries do not produce the same result. SELECT from x left join y on x.c is an outer join whereas SELECT from x, y where x.c = y.c is an inner join. Ok, it is a cross join, but most databases will transform it to inner join. I would like to know what are those SQL engines which do a cross join when using the select from x, y where x.c = y.c syntax. Even SQLite converts comma joins to inner joins if it is more efficient to do so. Also, using left joins when inner join is the thing you want is not good for performance. You can look the above link for explanation why.

Maybe they need patents from other companies. Making a 3G phone without infringing any other company's patents is near impossible.

The short answer is that there is just too many primes to list. There is about x/log(x) prime numbers smaller than x. If you have a 512 bit number then you have about sqrt(2^512) / log(sqrt(2^512)) numbers to check. So, there is 1.5 * 10^75 numbers you need to list. This is simply impossible. Moore's law will not help here, as adding one bit to the number to check about doubles the search space. That is, after a year of you can check a number that is just one bit larger!

Well, all that a chess program does is that it essentially plays all the possible moves out to some cutoff point. I wouldn't claim it a big success if you don't use probabilistic methods.