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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 13 – August 20, 2019 184 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 232 Get it by email ↓
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Business 11 stories

  1. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

  2. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

  3. Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency

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  1. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

  2. Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys

  3. CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978

  4. Danish bank launches negative interest rate mortgage

Sports 6 stories

  1. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

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  1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

  2. Big Coal Plants Begin to Close

  3. Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

Technology 147 stories

  1. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

  2. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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  1. How to Build Good Software

  2. Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

  3. Cloudflare S-1

  4. Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%

  5. WeWTF

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

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  1. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

  2. Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

  3. Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

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