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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 17 – March 24, 2017 194 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 12 · Issue 83 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

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Business 7 stories

  1. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

  2. How Braintree destroyed a successful taxi startup from Serbia

  3. Golden powers are nearly integers

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  1. PSD2 – a directive that will change banking in Europe

  2. Startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2

  3. IBM has decided to co-locate its US marketing department

  4. Adventures in JIT compilation: Part 1 – an interpreter

Sports 6 stories

  1. Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

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  1. Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal

  2. Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

  3. The CIA uses board games to train officers

Technology 167 stories

  1. GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources

  2. They Used To Last 50 Years

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  1. US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

  2. Distill: a modern machine learning journal

  3. VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

  4. Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates

  5. Beautiful Online SICP

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

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  1. The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking

  2. Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser

  3. Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down

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