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The week in reviewVol. 19 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 248 2019-09-05
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 29 – September 5, 2019 187 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 248 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

The poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

CBS · 1 sources

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Business 10 stories

  1. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    brave.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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  1. WeWork CEO gives back $5.9M from 'We' trademark after criticism

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  2. Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession

    cassandracapital.net · 1 outlets

Sports 4 stories

  1. The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award

    lamport.azurewebsites. · 1 outlets

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  1. The growing science of memory manipulation

    scientificamerican.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows X86-64 System Call Table

    j00ru.vexillium.org · 1 outlets

  3. SQL Window Functions

    helenanderson.co.nz · 1 outlets

Technology 155 stories

  1. Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4

    googleprojectzero.blog · 2 outlets

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  1. The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70

    hacks.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  2. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

    wired.co.uk · 2 outlets

  4. Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  5. A database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Array with Constant Time Access and Fast Insertion and Deletion

    github.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Face Generator

    xn--5ca.cc · 1 outlets

  2. Firefox Nightly on macOS: decrease in power usage by a factor of about 3x

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics

    ackee.electerious.com · 1 outlets

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