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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 9 – March 11, 2019 802 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 11 · Issue 70 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 March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Best of Machine Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

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

  2. Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

  3. Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

  4. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

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  1. We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

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

  3. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

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

  5. Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

  6. How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

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

  8. Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Customers

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

  10. Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say

Sports 32 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. Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

  2. Winding down my Debian involvement

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

  4. Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

  5. ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

  6. Revolut CFO resigns following money laundering controversy

Technology 614 stories

  1. Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

  2. Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

  3. OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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  1. 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

  2. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

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

  4. Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

  5. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

  6. Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

  7. Making Money from Open-Source Software

  8. Leukemia Has Won

  9. We Need Chrome No More

Entertainment 38 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. Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

  2. Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown

  3. Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

  4. Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

  5. Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

  6. 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

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