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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 14 – April 21, 2021 189 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 111 Get it by email ↓
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Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

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Business 16 stories

  1. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    unusualwhales.com · 1 outlets

  2. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

    digesttime.com · 1 outlets

  3. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    nysfocus.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

    gov.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China

    nasdaq.com · 1 outlets

  4. The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil

    smithsonianmag.com · 1 outlets

Sports 10 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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  1. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go · 1 outlets

  3. The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Technology 138 stories

  1. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

  2. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

    madned.substack.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  2. Apple Introduces AirTag

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  3. Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

    tips.ariyh.com · 2 outlets

  4. YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  5. Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

    newsweek.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    lofi.cafe · 1 outlets

  2. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

    vitling.xyz · 1 outlets

  3. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    mvanga.com · 1 outlets

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