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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 4 – October 11, 2019 199 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 284 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

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Business 10 stories

  1. Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

  2. Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained

  3. Epic CEO says it won't ban Fortnite players for taking a stance on human rights

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  1. U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups

  2. Fundamentals of Python Programming [pdf]

  3. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

  4. Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says

Sports 7 stories

  1. NBA Events in China Disrupted over Hong Kong Tweet

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  1. Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

  2. NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts

  3. String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet

Technology 153 stories

  1. Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong

  2. 'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

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  1. Tesla Model 3 represented over 15% of September new car sales in The Netherlands

  2. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

  3. Broken

  4. Adobe deactivates all Venezuelan accounts

  5. Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

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  1. Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

  2. Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry

  3. Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy

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