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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 9 – October 16, 2019 198 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 289 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Business 9 stories

  1. Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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

  3. AWS Elasticsearch: a fundamentally-flawed offering

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  1. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market

  2. Banning cars on SF’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously

  3. The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers

  4. Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy

Sports 12 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. LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles

  3. Costco gained a cult following by breaking every rule of retail

Technology 159 stories

  1. Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?

  2. The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome?

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  1. Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

  2. Ken Thompson's Unix Password

  3. I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

  4. Broken

  5. Why Enterprise Software Sucks

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Show HN: Bel

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  1. Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

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

  3. Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet

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