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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 12 – September 11, 2019 823 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 254 Get it by email ↓
The month'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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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

  2. Google’s GDPR Workaround

  3. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

  4. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

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

  2. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

  3. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

  4. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

  5. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

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

  7. Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

  8. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

  9. IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

  10. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

Sports 27 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

  2. 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. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

  3. Useless Windows 10 Features

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

  5. India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

  6. Windows X86-64 System Call Table

Technology 623 stories

  1. How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

  2. WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

  3. New Google and Facebook Inquiries

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

  2. M.I.T. Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

  3. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

  4. Sunsetting Python 2

  5. Introducing nushell

  6. How to do a code review

  7. Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses

  8. Favorite Interview Questions

  9. Ebola Is Now Curable

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a CRM system to make sales fun

  2. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

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  1. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

  2. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

  3. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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

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

  6. Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia

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