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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 8 – October 15, 2020 187 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 289 Get it by email ↓
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ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

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Business 10 stories

  1. ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'

  2. Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

  3. Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google

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  1. AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out

  2. Y Combinator Failed Startups

  3. Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street

  4. I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers, fake Reddit/HN accts

Sports 10 stories

  1. When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home

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  1. A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company

  2. Apple forces Telegram to Close Channels Run by Belarus Protestors

  3. Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition

Technology 147 stories

  1. Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus

  2. We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

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  1. Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time

  2. Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account

  3. Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

  4. AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]

  5. We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (2018)

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: I made earrings that work like earphones

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  1. Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon

  2. Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows

  3. Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

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