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2019-05-08
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 1 – May 8, 2019 195 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 128 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

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Business 12 stories

  1. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

  2. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

  3. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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  1. America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery

  2. The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (2015)

  3. An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt

  4. Zuckerberg sued over privacy scandals, alleged insider trades

Sports 8 stories

  1. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

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  1. Windows gets a new terminal

  2. Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

  3. You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs

Technology 159 stories

  1. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

  2. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

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  1. All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

  2. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

  3. Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

  4. Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

  5. HTTP headers for the responsible developer

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

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  1. Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust

  2. Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS

  3. Show HN: Faast.js – Serverless Batch Computing Made Simple

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