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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 4 – December 11, 2019 177 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 345 Get it by email ↓
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Woman fighting with insurance for follow-up breast cancer tests

Mammograms can save lives, but in some cases, insurance companies are refusing to cover follow-up tests ordered by doctors.

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Business 10 stories

  1. Operations for Effective CEOs

  2. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

  3. Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market

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  1. New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy

  2. Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee

  3. Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup

  4. Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions

Sports 10 stories

  1. O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation

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  1. Tron: Evolution – SecuROM DRM expiration makes game unplayable 9 years later

  2. Arcade Game Typography

  3. How “randomizers” are breathing new life into old games

Technology 138 stories

  1. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

  2. The Lesson to Unlearn

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  1. How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

  2. The Great Cannon has been deployed again

  3. FUSE for macOS is no longer open source

  4. ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

  5. Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nearly all LaTeX package

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

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  1. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

  2. Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2

  3. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

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