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The EARN IT Act: How to Ban End-to-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It

CoronaVirus – FAQ, misconceptions, information, from a statistical perspective

Piss off America to win the support of Russia might be a plan. But pissing off America and Russia so as to be able to kill Syrians does not seem like much of a plan. Turkey says dozens killed in clashes with Syrian troops

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Those who want to keep track should book mark this site. Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases (by JHU CSSE)

Did the US just concede defeat in China tech war?

Harvard says Asians have bad personalities; judge agrees

According to a study that was just published, it looks like the virus is a combination of a bat coronavirus and another one that cannot be identified. The study looked at the way the proteins are coded, and the authors claim that the most likely animal that spread the virus is a snake. That would be odd, since coronaviruses are only known to infect mammals. However, Wuhan does have open markets where live snakes are sold, and since that’s where the virus originated, it could have come from a snake.