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2019-09-07
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 31 – September 7, 2019 189 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 250 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

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Business 8 stories

  1. Google’s GDPR Workaround

  2. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

  3. A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble

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

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

  3. Pension funds may be wrecked in a future recession

  4. Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe’s Economy Running

Sports 6 stories

  1. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

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  1. Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

  2. Windows X86-64 System Call Table

  3. The growing science of memory manipulation

Technology 158 stories

  1. How to do a code review

  2. How to learn D3.js

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  1. Stripe Capital

  2. Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer

  3. Leon Sans, a geometric typeface made with code

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

  5. Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Apple Music Web Client

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

  2. Show HN: Face Generator

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

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