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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 17 – December 17, 2019 804 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 351 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning Crash Course

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook Portal – Privacy review

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Browser-based climate change simulation

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  3. JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

    cs.princeton.edu · 1 outlets

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  1. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

    vitalik.ca · 1 outlets

  7. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

    wbur.org · 1 outlets

  8. PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  9. S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US

    thesoundingline.com · 1 outlets

  10. Operations for Effective CEOs

    sametab.com · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

    bbc.com · 2 outlets

  2. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players

    en.yna.co.kr · 1 outlets

  2. Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

    codecks.io · 1 outlets

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

    randomascii.wordpress. · 1 outlets

  4. Win32 on macOS

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

  5. Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

    citylab.com · 1 outlets

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

    community.pcgamingwiki · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Google Kills Cloud Print

    thurrott.com · 4 outlets

  2. Advent of Code 2019

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

  3. E-scooter company goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads

    msn.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

    9to5mac.com · 2 outlets

  2. Firefox 71

    hacks.mozilla.org · 2 outlets

  3. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

    quuxplusone.github.io · 3 outlets

  4. Save .org

    savedotorg.org · 1 outlets

  5. Having Kids

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  6. Tesla Cybertruck

    tesla.com · 1 outlets

  7. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

    sloanreview.mit.edu · 2 outlets

  8. Firefox Replay

    firefox-replay.com · 1 outlets

  9. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

    uspirg.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

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

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

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

    selfhostedsource.tech · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    aidungeon.io · 1 outlets

  2. Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source

    metaflow.org · 1 outlets

  3. Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

    blog.loadzero.com · 1 outlets

  5. My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced

    github.com · 1 outlets

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