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2018-08-19
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 12 – August 19, 2018 188 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 231 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup

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Business 7 stories

  1. Why you should, and shouldn’t, join a startup

  2. Cryptocurrency investor robbed via his cellphone account sues AT&T for $224M

  3. Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)

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  1. Intangible investment behaves differently

  2. $100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common

  3. Stockholm’s deepest subway station is also an ecological wonder

  4. Scaling Your Static Site to a Global Market for a Fraction of the Cost on AWS

Sports 9 stories

  1. The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

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  1. Traveling the World on a Third World Passport

  2. SQLite Release 3.25.0 adds support for window functions

  3. This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways

Technology 150 stories

  1. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

  2. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

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  1. My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

  2. Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets

  3. Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy

  4. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email

  5. Exapunks

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git

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  1. Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C

  2. Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

  3. Show HN: A side project in medical devices

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