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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 18 – November 17, 2020 819 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 322 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

reuters.com · 1 sources

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Cool Machine Learning Books

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    From McDonald's to Google

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 30 stories

  1. PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  3. Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders

    markets.businessinside · 1 outlets

  4. Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

    framablog.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Marketers are addicted to bad data

    jacquescorbytuech.com · 1 outlets

  3. U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

    vice.com · 1 outlets

  4. Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

    news.skhynix.com · 1 outlets

  5. YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  6. Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B transferred after seven years

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting

    wesdesilvestro.com · 1 outlets

  8. First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws

    fincen.gov · 1 outlets

  9. U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. U.S. faculty job market tanks

    sci-hub.st · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball

    iflscience.com · 2 outlets

  2. Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

    apnews.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. “Before cancelling your subscription, you must agree to the following”

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

    winxp.now.sh · 1 outlets

  3. Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client

    gitlab.com · 1 outlets

  5. Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good

    gamespot.com · 1 outlets

  6. Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

    github.com · 2 outlets

Technology 638 stories

  1. Youtube-dl GitHub Template

    github.com · 4 outlets

  2. Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

    discussions.apple.com · 5 outlets

  3. Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Valley with Them

    npr.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2: Term Rewriting

    stephendiehl.com · 1 outlets

  2. Combating abuse in Matrix – without backdoors

    matrix.org · 1 outlets

  3. Sean Connery has died

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  4. Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

    thenextweb.com · 4 outlets

  5. Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms

    oregonlive.com · 2 outlets

  6. Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

    rachelbythebay.com · 1 outlets

  7. YouTube-DL Gitlab Backup Repository

    github.blog · 2 outlets

  8. macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  9. Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

    raspberrypi.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: What would mechanical programming look like?

    mockmechanics.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

    funkwhale.audio · 3 outlets

  2. NAT Slipstreaming

    samy.pl · 1 outlets

  3. Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Ugliest.app – Ugly but good app platform

    ugliest.app · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript

    dwitter.net · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages

    github.com · 1 outlets

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