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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 26 – August 2, 2023 181 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 214 Get it by email ↓
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How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

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Business 5 stories

  1. How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

  2. Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow

  3. EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bundling

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  1. Uber posts first quarterly net profit

  2. Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks

Sports 10 stories

  1. The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

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  1. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

  2. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics

  3. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

Technology 138 stories

  1. Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

  2. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

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  1. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

  2. Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

  3. I'm betting on HTML

  4. Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

  5. Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

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  1. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

  2. Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2

  3. Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge

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