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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 14 – August 21, 2019 197 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 233 Get it by email ↓
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Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

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Business 15 stories

  1. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

  2. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

  3. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

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  1. Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

  2. IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

  3. Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency

  4. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

Sports 6 stories

  1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

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  1. Big Coal Plants Begin to Close

  2. Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading

  3. In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels

Technology 157 stories

  1. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

  2. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

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  1. How to Build Good Software

  2. Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

  3. Cloudflare S-1

  4. Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%

  5. WeWTF

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

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  1. Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

  2. Show HN: Saag as a Service – macronutrient-portioned Indian spinach curry

  3. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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