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2018-04-17
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 10 – April 17, 2018 178 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 107 Get it by email ↓
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Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

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Business 11 stories

  1. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

  2. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

  3. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

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  1. Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

  2. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

  3. Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings

  4. When the business model is the privacy violation

Sports 8 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

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  1. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

  2. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

  3. Lisp Game Jam 2018

Technology 144 stories

  1. Productivity

  2. Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

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  1. Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

  2. Fuchsia is not Linux

  3. A Taxonomy of Technical Debt

  4. Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

  5. Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books

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  1. Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert

  2. Show HN: Tube – Minimalist YouTube

  3. Show HN: Visualizing disk IO activity using log-scale banded graphs

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