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2013-10-13
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 6 – October 13, 2013 194 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 286 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marketplace

Business 7 stories

  1. Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marketplace

  2. What I learnt bootstrapping my startup from Thailand for six months

  3. Bitcoin accidentally solved my startup's international banking problem

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  1. The war on drugs is a broken business model

  2. Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar

  3. Free tools we used to build our startup

  4. U.S. is now the world’s biggest oil and gas producer

Sports 5 stories

  1. Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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  1. Linux only needs one 'killer' game to explode, says Battlefield director

  2. An open letter to Rockstar Games

  3. Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi

Technology 166 stories

  1. Wikileaks internal memo on "The Fifth Estate"

  2. What I've been up to for the past year

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  1. Nest introduces their Smoke Detector

  2. Airbnb refuses to hand over users' data

  3. Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab

  4. A list of free programming books

  5. The myth of NASA's expensive space pens

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs

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  1. RSA-210 factored

  2. Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility

  3. Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise

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