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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 11 – April 18, 2021 189 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 108 Get it by email ↓
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Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

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Business 15 stories

  1. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

  2. My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

  3. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

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  1. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

  2. Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

  3. Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments

  4. Bitcoin mining hash rate drops as blackouts instituted in China

Sports 11 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

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  1. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

  2. Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

  3. The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

Technology 147 stories

  1. Just Be Rich

  2. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

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  1. Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years

  2. Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

  3. Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter

  4. Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee

  5. YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

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  1. Show HN: Science and math-flavored programming problems for beginners

  2. Show HN: I built a Guitar Hero robot [video]

  3. Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

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