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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 30 – September 6, 2020 182 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 250 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

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Business 9 stories

  1. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

  2. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

  3. Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market

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  1. Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy

  2. Staff Report on Algorithmic Trading in U.S. Capital Markets [pdf]

  3. The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue

  4. Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds

Sports 5 stories

  1. Winamp Skin Museum

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  1. The User Always Loses

  2. Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)

  3. Growing a Language (1998) [video]

Technology 155 stories

  1. Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

  2. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

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  1. Most-favorited Hacker News posts

  2. Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage

  3. Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

  4. Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs

  5. David Graeber has died

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval

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  1. Show HN: Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs

  2. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

  3. Show HN: ML From Scratch – free online textbook

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