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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 31 – January 30, 2020 819 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 30 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

When good ideas make bad business

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

    tjcx.me · 2 outlets

  2. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study

    psl.com · 1 outlets

  3. Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy

    finance.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

  4. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

    crypto.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    qz.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to Invest in Startups

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

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

    scholar.princeton.edu · 1 outlets

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

    conradbastable.com · 2 outlets

  5. Startup Ideas 2020

    dcgross.com · 1 outlets

  6. Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

    thenextweb.com · 1 outlets

  8. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

    rollingstone.com · 1 outlets

  9. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

    blog.lareviewofbooks.o · 1 outlets

  10. A list of places to post about your startup/launch

    sizle.io · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Wine 5.0

    source.winehq.org · 2 outlets

  2. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

    wh0.github.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

    media.defense.gov · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

    nobsgames.stavros.io · 2 outlets

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

    hyperallergic.com · 1 outlets

  4. Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

    status.gandi.net · 1 outlets

  5. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

    winaero.com · 1 outlets

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

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 612 stories

  1. Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4

    techcrunch.com · 11 outlets

  2. Every Google result now looks like an ad

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  2. Goodbye, Clean Code

    overreacted.io · 1 outlets

  3. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

    deprocrastination.co · 1 outlets

  4. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

    dystroy.org · 1 outlets

  5. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. A Sad Day for Rust

    words.steveklabnik.com · 1 outlets

  7. How to Exit Vim

    github.com · 1 outlets

  8. Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

    parsers.me · 1 outlets

  9. An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

    bradfitz.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 44 stories

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

    startribune.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers

    usb-hubs.org · 2 outlets

  2. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you

    github.com · 2 outlets

  4. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

    davebakker.io · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

    diaryemail.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

    github.com · 1 outlets

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