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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 2 – July 9, 2017 186 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 27 · Issue 190 Get it by email ↓
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Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second

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Business 10 stories

  1. Bitcoin mining on a vintage Xerox Alto: very slow at 1.5 hashes/second

  2. Real estate site Redfin files for IPO

  3. Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related health startup

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  1. Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO

  2. Amazon engineer will let strangers manage his $50,000 stock portfolio 'forever'

  3. NIST to redefine the kilogram based on a fundamental universal constant

  4. Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories

Sports 7 stories

  1. SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

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  1. US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows

  2. Block-breaking game in vim 8.0

  3. 2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera

Technology 154 stories

  1. Tesla’s big battery in South Australia may prove the viability of renewables

  2. Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets

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  1. I'm not a Woman in Tech

  2. Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018

  3. What Is Ethereum?

  4. It is as if you were doing work

  5. Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: Under the hood ReactJS

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  1. Show HN: Globe visualizations in Golang

  2. Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is unconstitutional

  3. NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars

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