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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 22 – December 29, 2018 171 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 363 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

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Business 10 stories

  1. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

  2. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  3. Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)

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  1. As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back

  2. Why don't I take military funding? (2004)

  3. Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies

  4. Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets

Sports 11 stories

  1. What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars

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  1. Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018

  2. How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

  3. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]

Technology 136 stories

  1. Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

  2. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

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  1. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

  2. Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

  3. DOOMBA

  4. How DOOM fire was done

  5. Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

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  1. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996

  2. Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

  3. Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust

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