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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 31 – February 7, 2019 184 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 38 Get it by email ↓
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If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

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Business 13 stories

  1. If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

  2. EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone

  3. More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

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  1. Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

  2. A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

  3. In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business

  4. EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel

Sports 3 stories

  1. Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Whales” for Its Monetized Games

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  1. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

  2. The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity

Technology 154 stories

  1. Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps

  2. Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

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  1. Dotfile madness

  2. MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

  3. New study: Google manipulates users into constant tracking

  4. Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

  5. “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes

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  1. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

  2. Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work

  3. Show HN: GuiLite – Tiny UI framework, runs on MCU without OS

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