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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 1 – January 8, 2020 195 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 8 Get it by email ↓
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When good ideas make bad business

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Business 10 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

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

  3. Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]

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  1. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

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

  3. Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study

  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. Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

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

Technology 166 stories

  1. How to Exit Vim

  2. Software Disenchantment (2018)

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  1. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

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

  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 6 stories

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

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

  2. Show HN: Pure C WebRTC implementation for embedded devices

  3. Show HN: jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go

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