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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 7 – February 14, 2020 192 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 45 Get it by email ↓
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

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Business 7 stories

  1. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

  2. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

  3. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

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  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

  2. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

  3. GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

  4. The Myth of the Barter Economy (2016)

Sports 13 stories

  1. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

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  1. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

  2. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

  3. Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

Technology 152 stories

  1. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

  2. Gears

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  1. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

  2. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

  3. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

  4. Reasons not to become famous

  5. “We already store data. In a database. It works well”

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

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  1. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”

  2. Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)

  3. Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

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