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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 21 – December 28, 2018 169 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 362 Get it by email ↓
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The Internet of Unprofitable Things

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Business 11 stories

  1. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  2. Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

  3. Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

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  1. Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer

  2. As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back

  3. Why don't I take military funding? (2004)

  4. Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

Sports 9 stories

  1. Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018

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  1. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]

  2. The Link Between Inflammation and Depression?

  3. I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon

Technology 135 stories

  1. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

  2. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

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  1. DOOMBA

  2. Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.

  3. Fridge 0.2

  4. Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics (2017)

  5. AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

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  1. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996

  2. Show HN: A new spline

  3. Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

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