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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 23 – December 30, 2017 181 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 364 Get it by email ↓
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I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

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Business 10 stories

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

  2. Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage

  3. Not raising funds to stay small and happy

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  1. The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis

  2. Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev

  3. SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber

  4. Dustin Moskovitz pours funds into high-risk research

Sports 4 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 153 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 9 stories

  1. Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

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

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

  3. Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness

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