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> There is a clear correlation between suppression of media freedom in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and a country’s ranking in the Index.

This site has no information about who/what is behind it, no privacy policy - but it has fields for name and email address entry - and there is no indication of the target geographical area, whet…

> David Just, a behavioral economist at Cornell University ... studied Maine lottery data and found that when the unemployment rate went up by 1% in a given ZIP Code, sales of tickets for lotterie…

Er, would you be prepared to email it to me, too?

It's handy that this is followed by 420, a comfortable come-down.

https://archive.is/5vltM

The statement says, "Like many other nonprofits and small businesses, the crisis has hit us hard, ..." It's a third of the team being lost, as far as I can see. But the statement doesn&…

> "The truth is this: We don't know what it truly takes to get infected with the virus, including the amount of virus necessary to actually initiate an infection," [Dr. Robert] Glatt…

> Donna Kinnair, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said on Friday that some ill and symptomatic nurses were driving for hours to testing stations, only to be turned away because they…

I read the comments posted earlier, but read the article anyway. I appreciate HN comments all the more now, and won't do it again. This is hindsight speaking, by the way.

This should be mandatory reading for all journalists, and all politicians.

> Facebook used to sit with the cool kids at lunch, but word got out that he killed a dog, filmed it, and made a meme of it. Priceless.

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In my case, it's an inability to log in: I picked up an EE (UK telecoms provider) SIM card after returning to Britain after many years abroad. Buying credits in a shop is a hassle - and hampered …