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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 29 – February 28, 2019 804 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 59 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

Honored for her charity work, the poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning for Everyone

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

  2. The complicated business of funding open source software development

  3. EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone

  4. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

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  1. We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

  2. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

  3. More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

  4. My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

  5. Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

  6. Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

  7. Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data

  8. How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

  9. Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

  10. Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

Sports 22 stories

  1. Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

  2. Winning the Blackbird Battle

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  1. Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code

  2. Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

  3. Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

  4. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

  5. FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

  6. Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

Technology 621 stories

  1. From Google Analytics to Fathom

  2. OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

  3. 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

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  1. Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering

  2. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

  3. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

  4. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

  5. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

  6. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

  7. Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

  8. Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

  9. Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

  2. Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js

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  1. Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes

  2. Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

  3. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

  4. Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

  5. Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work

  6. Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

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