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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 14 – February 13, 2019 823 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 44 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

Honored for her charity work, the poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning for Everyone

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What People Say Before They Die

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2019

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

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

  3. Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

  4. Startup Playbook (2015)

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  1. WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

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

  3. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

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

  5. U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks

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

  7. Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data

  8. Facebook shares shoot up after strong Q4 earnings despite data breach

  9. Mars One, which offered 1-way trips to Mars, declared bankrupt

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

Sports 30 stories

  1. AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

  2. Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

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  1. Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code

  2. Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

  3. After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue

  4. Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)

  5. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet

  6. Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

Technology 624 stories

  1. From Google Analytics to Fathom

  2. FoundationDB Record Layer

  3. Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

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  1. Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering

  2. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

  3. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

  4. Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

  5. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

  6. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

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

  8. Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

  9. Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

  2. When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

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

  2. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

  3. Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

  4. Show HN: Open source balloon simulation with Three.js

  5. Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

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

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