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2019-09-29
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close September 22 – September 29, 2019 198 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 272 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Back surgery saved him from paralysis. Then the bills arrived: over $650,000

Frank Esposito, a tool and die maker from Long Island, New York, drained $49,000 from his retirement account and still owes over $220,000

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Business 16 stories

  1. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

  2. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

  3. MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

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  1. New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

  2. Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Overflow CEO

  3. The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production?

  4. How to Cold Email Investors [video]

Sports 12 stories

  1. Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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  1. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

  2. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

  3. Show HN: Bot Land, a game where you fight others via code

Technology 153 stories

  1. Serverless: slower and more expensive

  2. Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?

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  1. WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism

  2. Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

  3. Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

  4. Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study

  5. Nim 1.0

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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  1. Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs

  2. Show HN: HTTP Mock – Intercept, debug and mock HTTP(S) with zero setup

  3. Charts show how little progress has been made in limiting greenhouse emissions

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