Month: December 2022

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S7 Bonus: Nathan Yap, SupportZebra

Nathan Yap has a tight knit family, that he spends a lot of time with. So traveling and enjoying good food with his family is winning to him. Outside of that, he is enjoying the Pickleball craze, and he was heading into his first tournament at the time of this recording. He also loves to ski as well, and mentions really enjoying Crested Butte and Vail.

Prior to his current venture, Nathan was importing coconut water from the Philippines. At scale, the company had an office in the Philippines, handling the back office work. They eventually sold that company, but during its lifetime, they took on other customers to help with support, and found a nice formula for building these teams.

This is the creation story of SupportZebra.

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Bay Curious - Homes for All: Richmond’s 1950s Attempt at Integrated Housing

A group of Black ministers convinced a local Richmond developer to build homes that would be available to all Americans, including Black Americans, in the early 1950s long before the Fair Housing Act. We trace the history of that activism and the fate of the community over the decades.


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The Best One Yet - 🎣 “Fishing Mecca” — Bass Pro Shops’ hotel. Tesla’s brand reversal. The Railroad Grinch.

The 7th biggest pyramid on Earth is actually in Tennessee, it’s a hotel, and it’s owned by Bass Pro Shops. Everyone's talking about Twitter and Elon, but what’s going on at Tesla? 3 bad things. And whether or not the Grinch steals Christmas comes down to 1 thing: The Railroad Strike. $TSLA $CSX Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.1.22

Alabama

  • 2 people are dead in Montgomery County as a result of tornadoes 
  • Governor Ivey signs letter calling on end to vaccine mandate for military
  • AG Steve Marshall files lawsuit against AL Ethics commission over policy
  • Numbers are out regarding Thanksgiving traffic crashes and fatalities
  • Black Friday sales are up from last year despite the inflation woes

National

  • Democrats choose Hakeem Jeffries of NY to replace Pelosi as leader
  • AZ congressman says he has 20 votes against McCarthy as speaker
  • US House Democrats pass bill to force railway unions to accept deal
  • Federal reserve chairman says another interest rate hike coming
  • CNN prepares to lay off employees before Christmas
  • Apple helps CCP crack down on dissidents with latest IOS updates
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Space Shuttle

Soon after the start of the space race, a major problem with space flight became obvious: it was really expensive.

The high cost of space flight was in large part due to the fact that every rocket and spacecraft was expendable. Every trip meant a new rocket and a new vehicle. 

To solve this problem, in the early 1970s, the United States launched a new program to create a reusable spacecraft. 

Learn more about the rise and fall of the Space Transportation System, aka the Space Shuttle on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Jonathan R. Hunt, “The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam” (Stanford UP, 2022)

The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam (Stanford UP, 2022) reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London to throw their weight behind the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) banishing nuclear testing underground, the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco banning atomic armaments from Latin America, and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbidding more countries from joining the most exclusive club on Earth.

International society, the Cold War, and the imperial U.S. presidency were reformed from 1945 to 1970, when a global nuclear order was inaugurated, averting conflict in the industrial North and yielding what George Orwell styled a "peace that is no peace" everywhere else. Today the nuclear order legitimizes foreign intervention worldwide, empowering the nuclear club and, above all, the United States, to push sanctions and even preventive war against atomic outlaws, all in humanity's name.

Grant Golub is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD candidate in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the politics of American grand strategy during World War II.

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What A Day - Full Hakeem Ahead

House Democrats voted unanimously Wednesday to make New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries their new leader – making him the first Black person to lead a party in Congress.

Meanwhile, the House passed legislation that would force rail companies and labor unions to accept a tentative deal to avert a nationwide rail strike — and while progressives pushed for a separate bill to guarantee paid sick leave, it faces an uncertain future in the Senate.

And in headlines: the FDA is reportedly planning to allow more queer men to donate blood, a House panel finally has access to former President Trump’s federal tax returns, and the French baguette was added to UNESCO’s cultural heritage list.

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The NewsWorthy - Congress Intervenes, Brain Chip Prototype & Spotify Wrapped- Thursday, December 1, 2022

The news to know for Thursday, December 1, 2022!

What to know about Congress intervening to stop a major railroad strike: where two bills stand now and reactions to it all.

And history has been made in the U.S. House as someone new takes on a key leadership role.

Also, computers in our brains? Elon Musk says his company will start making it a reality.

Plus, we're talking about Prince William's first trip to the U.S. in nearly a decade and the most streamed artists on Spotify this year.

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | ‘The Truth Will Shine’: Tiananmen Square Survivor Has Message for Chinese Protesters

More than 30 years ago, ordinary residents of China protested in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where authorities reacted by reportedly killing at least 10,000.

Sean Lin, who traveled to Beijing to attend those protests in 1989, recalls those events as “a historical moment in [China’s] modern history.”

Lin, who served as a U.S. Army microbiologist and is currently an assistant professor in Fei Tian College’s Biomedical Science Department in Middletown, New York, recalls that “not only students actively joined the protests,” but “a lot of civilians from all walks of life all supported this movement.”

“At the time, I think the main theme is anti-corruption because after the Cultural Revolution ended, the Communist Party allowed certain levels of economy reform,” Lin says. “So, many of the party elites quickly get rich using their privilege, using their powers.”

He added: “So, immediately, the Chinese people see the society become polarized … I think it triggered a huge anger against the corruption level at the time.”

Lin brings this frame of reference to discussing the ongoing unrest in China triggered after at least 10 persons died and at least nine were hurt last Thursday in an apartment fire in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region during the nation’s COVID-19 lockdown. 

“I think at that time in the 1980s, people definitely were very, very angry and upset about the corruption level. But at that time, nobody even … call for a step-down of the Communist Party,” Lin says. 

“But now, 33 years later, I think people are totally disappointed and [have] totally lost any confidence in the Communist Party.” 

Lin joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about his experience during the Tiananmen Square protests, his thoughts on the Biden administration’s response to the current protests in China, and his message to those protesting.


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