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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close November 8 – November 15, 2017 184 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 46 · Issue 319 Get it by email ↓
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The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

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Business 17 stories

  1. The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

  2. BitTorrent inventor announces eco-friendly Bitcoin competitor Chia

  3. Segwit2x Bitcoin Fork Suspended

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  1. Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python

  2. Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation

  3. Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap

  4. Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data

Sports 5 stories

  1. Business questions engineers should ask when interviewing at ML/AI companies

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  1. Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award

  2. How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online

  3. Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message

Technology 152 stories

  1. How Firefox Got Fast Again

  2. Firefox 57.0 Released

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  1. Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

  2. Using SVG as image placeholders

  3. The fake Facebook profile industry

  4. Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado

  5. “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action

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  1. Show HN: Datasette – Create and publish an API for SQLite databases

  2. Show HN: SpeechBoard – Edit Podcasts from the Transcript

  3. Show HN: Free Math, an offline React app for managing digital math homework

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