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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 28 – May 5, 2021 186 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 125 Get it by email ↓
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Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

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Business 8 stories

  1. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

  2. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

  3. Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

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  1. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

  2. Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average

  3. Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

  4. What nobody says about startup moms

Sports 8 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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  1. How Tech Loses Out

  2. Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance

  3. Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

Technology 152 stories

  1. Internal Combustion Engine

  2. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

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  1. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

  2. Yayagram

  3. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died

  4. Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

  5. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

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  1. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

  2. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

  3. Show your costs to boost sales

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