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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 17 – March 24, 2020 186 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 84 Get it by email ↓
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GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

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Business 12 stories

  1. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

  2. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

  3. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

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  1. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

  2. Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy

  3. Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]

  4. The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014)

Sports 8 stories

  1. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

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  1. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

  2. Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

  3. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

Technology 150 stories

  1. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

  2. Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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  1. TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor

  2. 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery

  3. Things you can do with a browser in 2020

  4. Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19

  5. Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

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  1. Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

  2. Show HN: Zoom Redirector

  3. Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface

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