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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 6 – September 5, 2019 823 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 248 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

The poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains who became the glitzy queen of country glamour has always known what really matters

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Start with Machine Learning

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    brave.com · 1 outlets

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

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    apple.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  3. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

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

    shafyy.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    accountingtoday.com · 1 outlets

  7. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

    esquire.com · 1 outlets

  9. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    cassandracapital.net · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  2. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

    universetoday.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    heise.de · 1 outlets

  2. Useless Windows 10 Features

    howtogeek.com · 1 outlets

  3. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 1 outlets

  4. Wine on Windows 10

    reddragdiva.dreamwidth · 1 outlets

  5. The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award

    lamport.azurewebsites. · 1 outlets

  6. I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

Technology 622 stories

  1. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    nytimes.com · 7 outlets

  2. WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

    theverge.com · 4 outlets

  3. Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]

    m.youtube.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. How Facebook Tracks You on Android (2018) [video]

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  3. Introducing nushell

    jonathanturner.org · 1 outlets

  4. Google will shut down Google Hire in 2020

    medium.com · 7 outlets

  5. Ebola Is Now Curable

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  6. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

  7. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  8. What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    twitter.com · 4 outlets

  9. How to Build Good Software

    csc.gov.sg · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Personal Management System

    github.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  2. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    wtfutil.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

    divjoy.com · 2 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia

    analytech-solutions.co · 1 outlets

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