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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 4 – March 6, 2019 824 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 65 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 March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Best of Machine Learning

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Problem solving with Unix commands

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

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

  2. The complicated business of funding open source software development

  3. Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

  4. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

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  1. We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

  2. My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

  3. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

  4. Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

  5. Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

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

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

  8. Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Customers

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

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

Sports 26 stories

  1. Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

  2. Winning the Blackbird Battle

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

  2. Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

  3. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

  4. FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

  5. Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

  6. ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

Technology 637 stories

  1. Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

  2. OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

  3. 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

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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. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

  5. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

  6. Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

  7. Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

  8. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

  9. Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

Entertainment 34 stories

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

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

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

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

  3. Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown

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

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

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

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