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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 22 – December 29, 2017 191 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 363 Get it by email ↓
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I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

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Business 14 stories

  1. I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

  2. Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage

  3. Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today

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  1. Not raising funds to stay small and happy

  2. The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

  3. Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev

  4. Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

Sports 5 stories

  1. Airbus ready to axe A380 if fails to win Emirates deal

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  1. Game developer’s guide to graphical projections

  2. Concussion doctor says he found CTE in living NFL player

  3. Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights

Technology 155 stories

  1. My Favorite Papers of 2017

  2. Jsonb: Stories about performance

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  1. Effective Engineer – Notes

  2. Economics of Minecraft

  3. I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty

  4. Computer latency: 1977-2017

  5. How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

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  1. Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

  2. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over

  3. Show HN: Data Prism – Weekly newsletter about data science, ML, AI and analytics

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