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2020-01-04
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 28 – January 4, 2020 185 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 4 Get it by email ↓
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When good ideas make bad business

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Business 8 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

  2. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

  3. Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.0

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  1. Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study

  2. Too Much Crypto [pdf]

  3. Electric Cars Threaten the Heart of Germany’s Economy

  4. Cryptocurrency in the 2020s

Sports 6 stories

  1. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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  1. Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

  2. French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

  3. One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China

Technology 149 stories

  1. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

  2. Software Disenchantment (2018)

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  1. Oslo had 0 pedestrian, 0 cyclist, 0 children and 1 driver trafic deaths in 2019

  2. What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth

  3. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

  4. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

  5. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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  1. Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

  2. Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript

  3. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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