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Every week, it feels like some new piece of coronavirus information dominates the headlines. Mysterious symptoms, changing government directives. This constant trickle of updates can quickly turn into a flood.
How should normal people interpret this deluge of data?
Guest: Emily Oster, professor of economics at Brown University and co-founder of COVID-Explained.
Host
Lizzie O’Leary
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Every week, it feels like some new piece of coronavirus information dominates the headlines. Mysterious symptoms, changing government directives. This constant trickle of updates can quickly turn into a flood.
How should normal people interpret this deluge of data?
Guest: Emily Oster, professor of economics at Brown University and co-founder of COVID-Explained.
Host
Lizzie O’Leary
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Every week, it feels like some new piece of coronavirus information dominates the headlines. Mysterious symptoms, changing government directives. This constant trickle of updates can quickly turn into a flood.
How should normal people interpret this deluge of data?
Guest: Emily Oster, professor of economics at Brown University and co-founder of COVID-Explained.
Host
Lizzie O’Leary
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Today the House is set to vote on a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package that Senate Republicans say is dead on arrival. They’ll also vote on rules to allow for remote voting—which means we could be seeing a lot more technology barriers and funny Zoom mishaps in the near future.
Late Wednesday night, FBI agents showed up to the house of Senator Richard Burr, served him a search warrant and took his cell phone. That’s in relation his sketchy sale of a ton of stock right before the market collapsed as a result of the pandemic.
And writer and comedian Bridger Winegar joins us for headlines: McDonald’s sends US franchises a 59-page guide to reopening their dining rooms, South America’s soccer league issues temporary ban on kissing, and Ikea France snoops on customers and staff.
The news to know for Friday, May 15th, 2020!
What to know today about new CDC guidelines to reopen, warnings from a government whistleblower, and a senator’s surprise decision while he’s under investigation.
Plus, it seems Apple is getting into virtual reality, a 'trillionaire' could soon exist, and the three star-studded ways for the class of 2020 to celebrate graduation.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.
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Sources:
New CDC Reopening Guidance: AP, NPR, CDC (look under 'Keeping Communities Safe')
Whistleblower Testifies: WSJ, ABC News, WaPo, Axios
Sen. Burr Stock Sale Investigation: The Hill, LA Times, NBC News, CBS News
Latest Unemployment Report: CNBC, Politico, CNN
Restaurant Closures: Axios, Bloomberg
Free Headspace Subscription to Unemployed: TechCrunch, Mashable, Axios, Headspace
NASCAR to Resume Sunday: AP, ESPN, Fox News
Apple Buys NextVR: Bloomberg, CNBC, The Verge
Amazon Face Shields: USA Today, Engadget, Amazon
Bezos Could Become Trillionaire: USA Today, Business Insider, Vox, Comparisun
Facebook’s Virtual Graduation: Today, Variety, Facebook
Graduate Together Event: Deadline. AP. Graduate Together
Youtube’s June Grad Ceremony: YouTube
Feel Good Friday - Nacho Making Fundraiser: EW, YouTube, Thrillist, CNN
Facebook recently announced the first 20 members of its new Oversight Board. The role of the board is to guide Facebook through decisions on what controversial content should be allowed to stay up or be deleted.
Michael McConnell, professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a co-chair of Facebook’s Oversight Board, joins the podcast to discuss what the institution of the board may mean for conservatives and how he plans to work alongside the liberal members of the group.
We also discuss these stories:
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This episode was recorded Thursday, May 9th, two days after Stack Overflow announced it was going to furlough 15% of its staff. We talk about how this process played out internally and the ways in which we are hoping to grow our business so we can bring these great people back. You can read more about it in a blog post from our CEO here.
After that, we discuss Zoom's acquisition of Keybase. Usage and wider public awareness of Zoom have been growing by leaps and bounds as the world shifts to remote work and learning during this pandemic. This has exposed some security issues with Zoom's platform, and the acquisition of Keybase seems to be aimed at shoring up their cybersecurity and encryption capabilities.
Sara, never one to miss an opportunity to plug Bitcoin, hips us to The Halvening. What does it all mean? Read more about it here.
Finally, Paul walks us through Deno, which was created by Ryan Dahl, who also created Node.js. Deno is "a brand new JavaScript runtime for the backend, but instead of being written in C++, it’s written in Rust, based on the Tokio platform (which provides the asynchronous runtime needed by JavaScript), still running Google’s V8 engine though." You can read more about it here.
Our lifeboater of the week is Stack Overflow user James Kanze, who was awarded the badge for answering the question: C++: What is the difference between ostream and ostringstream?
Thanks for listening :)
Today's episode marks a milestone for the show: we're going to file an amicus curiae brief in the Michael Flynn case. Find out exactly how & why we're doing this!
We begin, however, with a brief update in the various emoluments cases, including an update on the two orders released this morning by the 4th Circuit en banc.
After that it's time to dig into all the developments in the Flynn litigation that will lead to the filing of Opening Arguments' first amicus brief!
Then, it's time for #T3BE, featuring next week's guest, Andrew Seidel!
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