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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 10 – February 17, 2019 192 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 48 Get it by email ↓
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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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Business 10 stories

  1. How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

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

  3. Two Large Chinese Borrowers Miss Bond Payments, Sources Say

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  1. JP Morgan Unveils USD-Backed Cryptocurrency for B2B Payments

  2. Amazon in Its Prime: Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes

  3. Startup Credits – Free/discounted plans for startups

  4. Uber Revenue Growth Slows, Losses Persist as 2019 IPO Draws Near

Sports 4 stories

  1. Winning the Blackbird Battle

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  1. The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer

  2. Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image

  3. PostgreSQL 11 Reestablishes Window Functions Leadership

Technology 164 stories

  1. Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

  2. Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

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  1. Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

  2. On Being a Principal Engineer

  3. This person does not exist

  4. SQL: One of the most valuable skills

  5. My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

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  1. Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

  2. Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

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

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