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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 31 – January 7, 2020 191 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 7 Get it by email ↓
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When good ideas make bad business

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Business 9 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

  2. The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

  3. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

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  1. SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets

  2. Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study

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

  3. Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age

Technology 159 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. I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

  3. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

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

  5. Products I Wish Existed

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

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

  2. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

  3. Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

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