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2019-08-08
Weekly Close

Weekly Close

The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 1 – August 8, 2019 178 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 220 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Norweigan oil fund

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Business 11 stories

  1. Norweigan oil fund

  2. Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007

  3. FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

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  1. We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’

  2. Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens

  3. Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

  4. Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups

Sports 7 stories

  1. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

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  1. Wine on Windows 10

  2. Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back

  3. Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders

Technology 151 stories

  1. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

  2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

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  1. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

  2. Terminating Service for 8Chan

  3. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

  4. Hy

  5. Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

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  1. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

  2. MoviePass Worked Out Great

  3. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

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