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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 31 – August 7, 2021 188 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 219 Get it by email ↓
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Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

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Business 12 stories

  1. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

  2. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

  3. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

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  1. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

  2. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

  3. I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time

  4. Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity

Sports 12 stories

  1. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

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  1. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

  2. The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games

  3. A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags

Technology 146 stories

  1. Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus

  2. Expanded Protections for Children

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  1. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

  2. CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

  3. The rise of never-ending job interviews

  4. New in Git: switch and restore

  5. The surreal experience of my first developer job

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

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  1. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

  2. Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase

  3. Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes

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