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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 3 – December 10, 2017 185 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 344 Get it by email ↓
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Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

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Business 17 stories

  1. Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin

  2. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf]

  3. Japan eyes startup visa program

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  1. Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market

  2. An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange

  3. Apple CEO backs China’s ‘open’ Internet vision as censorship reaches new heights

  4. Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

Sports 12 stories

  1. Making a Game Boy game in 2017

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  1. Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say

  2. Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons

  3. Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

Technology 141 stories

  1. Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages

  2. The Big Vitamin D Mistake

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  1. Larry Ellison allegedly tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking Oracle

  2. Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

  3. The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords

  4. Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning

  5. Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows

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  1. Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV

  2. Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

  3. The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵ × 4⁴ × 3³ × 2² × 1¹ milliseconds is exactly 1 day

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