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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 10 – November 17, 2020 191 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 322 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

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Business 5 stories

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

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

  3. Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22

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  1. Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist

  2. Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]

Sports 6 stories

  1. Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

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  1. Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight

  2. Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10

  3. InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store

Technology 150 stories

  1. Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

  2. Exotic Programming Ideas, Part 2: Term Rewriting

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  1. Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

  2. YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

  3. macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

  4. Your Computer Isn't Yours

  5. Advanced System-on-Chip Design Lecture Notes

Entertainment 10 stories

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

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  1. Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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

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

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