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Uncomfortable Lessons: Reassessing Iran’s Missile Attack

Growth rates of 2019-nCoV are falling in Hubei, in China, and worldwide

A bad recording, but still still something to see two old timers playing around. Two of the top talents in their respective fields (playing the guitar and singing). It is a shame they did not pick better songs or put more serious effort into working together (and maybe they did at some point and I just don’t know it).

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Iowa Democratic Party releases 85% of caucus results but an error forces correction

DHS suspends New Yorkers from Global Entry, other programs

Don’t #BelieveAllWomen: The Truth About Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

The below clip is of interest because it is easy to assume that the superior speed of the “hero” was the result of camera tricks. I had to slow the video way down to see how he did this (and only after reading how much work he put in to making that happen)

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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.