Month: November 2020

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S3 E17: Jeff Bermant, Cocoon MyDataRewards

Jeff Bermant is originally from the east cost, specifically a superb of New York City called Rye. He left the big apple to head to USC in California, to be a highly ranked tennis player. After school, he played the pro circuit for bit but eventually moved on. Now a days, he is into cycling, and has gotten to ride with Lance Armstrong - who told him to make sure to keep his day job. He worked for Coldwell Banker in the real estate business, under Bob Selleck (Tom Selleck's Dad). After that he started his own real estate business, which he did for 30 years. But after a while, he realized that he really enjoyed creating - and a lot of that sort of thing gets lost in the real estate business.


He got into tech because, believe it or not - he was annoyed at the internet, and its lack of privacy. After a casual conversation with his son, he realized that the average user is not getting paid for their data. He found this to be wrong - and set out to fix the problem, to ensure users got paid for their data, not Google, Facebook or anyone else.


This is the creation story of Cocoon - MyDataRewards.


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The Right to Drink - The Surprising History of Moonshine

There’s a funny thing about alcohol. Every time the government makes it hard to get, the greater the lengths humans go to get it. Throughout human history we’ve found mind-bendingly creative ways to obtain our precious hooch, and the higher the government barriers the larger the black market. But moonshining isn’t just an American Prohibition era story, it’s a modern day--and global--phenomenon. So grab your jug and listen along as we compare moonshine myths and lore with modern day reality.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Nine out of ten, doctors say: a promising coronavirus vaccine

A vaccine claimed to be 90% effective represents an enormous achievement. We discuss what questions remain and the regulatory and distribution challenges ahead. A string of recent African elections reveals strongmen bending democracy to stay in office; will upcoming polls break it altogether? And a moral crusade in India doesn’t fit the country’s chill relationship with weed. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – How Democrats Took Latino Voters for Granted

Some early exit polls showed Joe Biden winning a strong majority of Latino voters but if you look closely there’s a more complicated story. In some key areas, Biden and Democrats more broadly underperformed with Latino voters compared to Hillary Clinton in 2016. How did the Biden campaign miss the mark?

Guest: Chuck Rocha, head of Nuestro PAC.

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The Best One Yet - “Ronald McVegan” — McDonald’s McPlant-wich. Pfizer’s hero vaccine. Supreme’s $2.1B trick.

Markets surged on word that Pfizer’s latest vaccine is over 90% effective… but that means stock winners and some stock losers (sorry, Zoom). Just as Beyond Meat was about to announce earnings, McDonald’s revealed its very own plant-based competitor: McPlant. And Timberland-owner VF Brands is splurging $2.1B on Supreme to streetwear-ify its social media sales game. $MCD $VFC $PFE Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 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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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - How Democrats Took Latino Voters for Granted

Some early exit polls showed Joe Biden winning a strong majority of Latino voters but if you look closely there’s a more complicated story. In some key areas, Biden and Democrats more broadly underperformed with Latino voters compared to Hillary Clinton in 2016. How did the Biden campaign miss the mark?

Guest: Chuck Rocha, head of Nuestro PAC.

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The NewsWorthy - Vaccine 90% Effective, Obamacare’s Future & Hyperloop Human Test- Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

The news to know for Tuesday, November 10th, 2020!

We have updates about:

  • promising results from one COVID-19 vaccine and how officials say this could be a turning point in the pandemic
  • new lawsuits from the Trump campaign that challenge the results of the election
  • the U.S. Supreme Court weighing the future of Obamacare
  • a milestone for a futuristic transportation system
  • two athletes defying the odds and breaking barriers

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.TheNewsWorthy.com under the section titled 'Episodes' to read more about any of the stories mentioned or see sources below...

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Sources:

Pfizer Vaccine is 90% Effective: NY Times, AP, WaPo, Stat, Pfizer

FDA Authorizes Antibody Treatment: Reuters, CNN, NBC News, FDA

Biden Names Coronavirus Task Force: NPR, CNBC, USA Today, FOX News

Trump Election Challenges Cont: WSJ, The Hill, AP, FOX News

Sen. McConnell Defends Trump: Politico, Axios, Reuters

DOJ Election Crimes Chief Resigns: NBC News, CNN, NPR

Trump Fires Mark Esper: AP, NY Times, WaPo, Reuters, Trump Tweet

Supreme Court Hearing Obamacare Case: AP, FOX News, NBC News, NY Times

Virgin Hyperloop Transports Passengers: Axios, USA Today, Engadget, Virgin

Apple’s “One More Thing” Event: USA Today, Engadget, Cnet, Watch Event Live

Woman Makes History in El Capitan Climb: NBC News, ABC News, NY Times, Instagram

Man with Down Syndrome Finishes Iron Man Race: CBS News, Fox News, CNN

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NBN Book of the Day - Robert Vitalis, “Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy” (Stanford UP, 2020)

We've heard and rehearsed the conventional wisdom about oil: that the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to this strategic resource; that the "special" relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; and that these assumptions in turn provide Washington enormous leverage over Europe and Asia.

That common sense is wrong. The author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford University Press, 2007), Robert Vitalis returns to disenchant us once again—this time from "oilcraft," a line of magical thinking closer to witchcraft than statecraft. Contrary to the deeply-held beliefs of hawkish foreign policy experts and career academics alike, oil is a commodity like any other: bought, sold, and subject to market forces. The House of Saud does many things for U.S. investors, firms, and government agencies, but guaranteeing the flow of oil, making it cheap, or stabilizing the price isn't one of them. Nevertheless, persistent fears of oil scarcity and conflict continue to breed real consequences. Robert Vitalis, Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy (Stanford UP, 2020) presses us to reconsider, among many things, the U.S.-Saudi special relationship, which confuses and traps many into unnecessarily accepting what we imagine is a devil's bargain. Along the way, Vitalis resurrects a forgotten school of critics of empire—a reprisal of his task in White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Cornell University Press, 2017).

Freeing ourselves from the spell of oilcraft won't be easy. But the benefits of doing so, and the drawbacks of not, make it essential.

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