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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 6 – December 6, 2019 816 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 340 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Woman fighting with insurance for follow-up breast cancer tests

Mammograms can save lives, but in some cases, insurance companies are refusing to cover follow-up tests ordered by doctors.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    “What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Naïve Bayes for Machine Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  3. How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

    cs.princeton.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  3. Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

    vitalik.ca · 1 outlets

  5. In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

    news.crunchbase.com · 1 outlets

  6. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

    wbur.org · 1 outlets

  7. PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  8. RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  9. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

    about.bnef.com · 1 outlets

  10. Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

    bbc.com · 2 outlets

  2. Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players

    en.yna.co.kr · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

    codecks.io · 1 outlets

  2. Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later

    community.pcgamingwiki · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

    secretgeek.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

    rockpapershotgun.com · 1 outlets

  5. German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

    nextbigfuture.com · 1 outlets

  6. Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Technology 615 stories

  1. Google Kills Cloud Print

    thurrott.com · 5 outlets

  2. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

    thenextweb.com · 4 outlets

  3. Advent of Code 2019

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  2. Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

    msn.com · 3 outlets

  3. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

    9to5mac.com · 4 outlets

  4. Firefox 71

    hacks.mozilla.org · 2 outlets

  5. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

    quuxplusone.github.io · 3 outlets

  6. Save .org

    savedotorg.org · 1 outlets

  7. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

    aclu.org · 1 outlets

  8. 16-inch MacBook Pro

    apple.com · 2 outlets

  9. Tesla Cybertruck

    tesla.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

    selfhostedsource.tech · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2

    aidungeon.io · 1 outlets

  2. Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source

    metaflow.org · 1 outlets

  4. Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

    blog.loadzero.com · 1 outlets

  6. My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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