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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 3 – January 10, 2020 202 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 10 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

When good ideas make bad business

Business 13 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

  2. The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

  3. Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]

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  1. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

  2. The BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

  3. AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue

  4. SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets

Sports 5 stories

  1. Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

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  1. Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

  2. Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age

  3. Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015)

Technology 167 stories

  1. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

  2. How to Exit Vim

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  1. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

  2. EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V

  3. What are those grids of glass in the sidewalk and why are they purple?

  4. Products I Wish Existed

  5. Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

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  1. Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

  2. The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make

  3. Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data

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