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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 7 – November 14, 2017 190 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 318 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

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Business 17 stories

  1. The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

  2. BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia

  3. Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended

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  1. Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python

  2. Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation

  3. Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap

  4. Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data

Sports 5 stories

  1. Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies

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  1. Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award

  2. Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message

  3. Flaw crippling millions of crypto keys is worse than first disclosed

Technology 155 stories

  1. How Firefox Got Fast Again

  2. Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook

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  1. Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

  2. Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel

  3. Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado

  4. “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

  5. RSS: there's nothing better

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. LA Times barred from Disney movies after report on corporate welfare

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  1. I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action

  2. Show HN: Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework

  3. Show HN: Datasette – Create and publish an API for SQLite databases

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