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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 31 – June 7, 2021 187 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 158 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Why we should end the data economy

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Business 11 stories

  1. Why we should end the data economy

  2. El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

  3. Pesticides are killing the world's soils

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  1. Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

  2. Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

  3. All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congressional insider trading

  4. Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato

Sports 5 stories

  1. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

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  1. Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery

  2. If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access

  3. Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript

Technology 161 stories

  1. An Unbelievable Demo

  2. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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  1. There are no results for tank man

  2. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

  3. Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters

  4. G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

  5. LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

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  1. Xbox co-pilot mode changed disabled sister’s life

  2. DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (2013)

  3. Show HN: I discovered a trading algorithm that returns ~24.85% annually

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