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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 22 – December 22, 2019 794 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 356 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

    The sad state of personal data and infrastructure

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Building a Search Engine from Scratch

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 43 stories

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

  2. JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

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

  4. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

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  1. Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

  2. Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

  3. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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

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

  6. Operations for Effective CEOs

  7. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

  8. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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

  10. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

Sports 34 stories

  1. Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

  2. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

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  1. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

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

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

  4. Win32 on macOS

  5. Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

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

Technology 612 stories

  1. I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo

  2. Advent of Code 2019

  3. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

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  1. Firefox 71

  2. Save .org

  3. Having Kids

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

  5. Firefox Replay

  6. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

  7. The sad state of personal data and infrastructure

  8. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

  9. The Lesson to Unlearn

Entertainment 40 stories

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

  2. Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

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

  2. Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info

  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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