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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 12 – December 12, 2019 810 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 346 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.

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning Crash Course

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook Portal – Privacy review

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    “What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

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

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

  3. How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

  4. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

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  1. Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

  2. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

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

  4. Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

  5. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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

  7. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

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

  9. S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US

  10. Operations for Effective CEOs

Sports 32 stories

  1. Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

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

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

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

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

  4. Abstreet: Traffic simulation game written in Rust

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

  6. Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access

Technology 606 stories

  1. Google Kills Cloud Print

  2. Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed

  3. Advent of Code 2019

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  1. E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads

  2. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

  3. Firefox 71

  4. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

  5. Save .org

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

  7. 16-inch MacBook Pro

  8. Tesla Cybertruck

  9. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

Entertainment 46 stories

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

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

  6. My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

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