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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 15 – October 22, 2021 170 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 295 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

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Business 8 stories

  1. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

  2. First federal grant for psychedelic treatment research in 50 years

  3. The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks

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  1. Backblaze S-1 IPO

  2. The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids

  3. WHO asks South African startup to replicate Moderna's mRNA vaccine

  4. Building on soil in Big Sandy: Regenerative organic farming in rural Montana

Sports 5 stories

  1. Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform

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  1. Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed

  2. Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11

  3. OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

Technology 145 stories

  1. Willingness to look stupid

  2. MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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  1. Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

  2. Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

  3. Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

  4. A viable solution for Python concurrency

  5. Overly analytical guide to escorting

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

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  1. YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent

  2. Playstation 3 Architecture

  3. Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard

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