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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 24 – January 31, 2016 183 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 31 Get it by email ↓
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Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)

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Business 7 stories

  1. Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)

  2. Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate

  3. Zcash, an untraceable Bitcoin alternative, launches in alpha

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  1. The letter the Feds sent to Theranos [pdf]

  2. Facebook Climbs to 1.59B Users, Beats Q4 Estimates with $5.8B Revenue

  3. VMware Confirms Layoffs as It Prepares for Dell Acquisition

  4. You're Not Allowed to Criticize Startups, You Stupid Hater

Sports 9 stories

  1. Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

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  1. Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out

  2. Glider, Mac Classic game, open-sourced

  3. Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'

Technology 151 stories

  1. Request For Research: Basic Income

  2. Amazon's customer service backdoor

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  1. Marvin Minsky dies at 88

  2. Facebook is closing Parse

  3. Voxel.css

  4. Get HTTPS for free

  5. Newegg sues patent troll that dropped its case

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show

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  1. Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects

  2. Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (2013)

  3. NTP Pool Bad Actors: The Rising Sophistication of Network Scanning

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