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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 5 – July 12, 2020 190 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 194 Get it by email ↓
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Business 10 stories

  1. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  2. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

  3. Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

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  1. Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

  2. Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal

  3. Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable

  4. Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say

Sports 9 stories

  1. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

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  1. I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

  2. Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust

  3. Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open

Technology 151 stories

  1. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

  2. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

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  1. Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

  2. Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

  3. 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

  4. How to Understand Things

  5. Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966)

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

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  1. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

  2. Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

  3. Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

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