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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 23 – June 30, 2020 191 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 182 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

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Business 8 stories

  1. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

  2. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

  3. What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture

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  1. How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue

  2. Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?

  3. Tim O’Reilly makes a case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm

  4. Goldman Sans

Sports 7 stories

  1. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

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  1. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

  2. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

  3. Windows98 Running in the Browser

Technology 155 stories

  1. iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes

  2. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

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  1. I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

  2. Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly

  3. Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple

  4. When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com

  5. An even worse anti-encryption bill than EARN IT

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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  1. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

  2. Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history

  3. Eastern European Movies

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