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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 3 – December 10, 2019 182 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 344 Get it by email ↓
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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.

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Business 10 stories

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

  2. Operations for Effective CEOs

  3. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

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  1. Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market

  2. New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy

  3. Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup

  4. Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement

Sports 10 stories

  1. O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation

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

  2. FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes

  3. Arcade Game Typography

Technology 138 stories

  1. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

  2. Firefox 71

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  1. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

  2. The Lesson to Unlearn

  3. Four fired workers file charges against Google

  4. The Great Cannon has been deployed again

  5. Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down

Entertainment 15 stories

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

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

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

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

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