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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 10 – October 17, 2022 180 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 290 Get it by email ↓
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TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

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Business 3 stories

  1. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

  2. An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets

  3. Regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon also invest in the companies’ stocks

Sports 6 stories

  1. How Wine works 101

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  1. Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

  2. Possibly a new way of drawing boxes in the terminal

  3. Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

Technology 153 stories

  1. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)

  2. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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  1. GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

  2. Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

  3. Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization

  4. PostgreSQL 15

  5. Meta Quest Pro

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

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  1. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

  2. Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built

  3. Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI

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