March 2021 – Page 4

March 30, 2021

Consider This from NPR - Inside The Opening Days Of The Derek Chauvin Trial — And The Trauma It’s Resurfacing

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's trial began this week. He's accused of murdering Minneapolis resident George Floyd in May of 2020, when Chauvin was recorded kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly 10 minutes.

NPR's Adrian Florido has been covering the trial and reports from Minneapolis.

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March 30, 2021

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Why Is It So Hard To Convict A Cop Of…Anything?

Why does the legal system seem tilted towards law enforcement? Why is it so difficult to get a conviction for murder or excessive force for a police officer, even in a high-profile case where video evidence seems to back up the charge? Reset looks for answers from Craig Futterman, a law professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in civil rights and police accountability. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.

March 30, 2021

Cato Daily Podcast - A Clarification on Systemic Racism

Understanding what systemic racism is requires an understanding of what it isn't. Jonathan Blanks of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity details a few important distinctions.

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March 30, 2021

CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: PayPal Opens Crypto Payments for Millions of Merchants

The old canard that you can’t buy coffee with bitcoin is less true than ever as PayPal rolls out crypto checkout for 29 million merchants.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Casper.

Today on the Brief:

BTC micro futures coming to CME
Michael Jordan is now an NFT investor
Bitcoin doesn’t care about Treasury yields

Our main discussion: PayPal has begun rolling out its crypto checkout tools to millions of merchants. NLW breaks down:

Why payments for day-to-day items have been historically deprioritized for Bitcoin and Ethereum
Why the PayPal checkout tools are unlikely to shift the primary use case from store of value style functions to medium of exchange
Why the liquidity and utility PayPal crypto checkout creates still adds significant value to these crypto assets

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March 30, 2021

Audio Poem of the Day - In the Basement of the Goodwill Store

By Ted Kooser

March 30, 2021

The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Why Are the Bidenites Embracing Gloom and Doom?

Matthew Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss the interesting decision of the Biden administration to go apocalyptic about the COVID threat even as vaccinations accelerate—and we discuss the objections by listeners to the idea that they should get vaccinated. And a whole lot more. Give a listen. Source

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March 30, 2021

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Gabon’s Ancient Nuclear Reactor(s)

File this under "stranger than fiction": In more than a dozen sites across Gabon, scientists have found evidence of ancient nuclear reactors. How ancient? Try two billion years. But how did this happen? Why? Find out in this classic episode.

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March 30, 2021

CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 03/30

Alarm over US COVID-19 cases, despite vaccination progress. Witness testimony at Derek Chauvin's murder trial. New attacks against Asian-Americans. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, March 30, 2021:

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March 30, 2021

The Intelligence from The Economist - High threat-count: boycotts in China

Western fashion brands are in Chinese consumers’ crosshairs, the victims of political wranglings over sanctions and human-rights issues—a spat that may soon consume other industries. A striking number of people in the criminal-justice system have had traumatic brain injuries; our correspondent investigates how much that link has been overlooked. And why the audio app Clubhouse has stormed the Middle East.

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March 30, 2021

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E13: Troy Goode, Courier

Troy Goode is based in San Francisco, with his family of 3 kids. They are 10, 8 and 2... so they are back in diapers. He finds family life super rewarding, and loves to go outside, to the park, and spend time with his family.

His parents had a boat when he was growing up, and they lived in a rural area. He used to sail down (as a spectator, not a sailor) a nearby river in Virginia. As he got older, he missed the simple peace yet required work that came with sailing - so he picked it back up as an adult.

He's worked on several startups as a VP of Engineering and CTO. At one point he was building a collaboration tool, and he was trying to mimic the hierarchy of Slack notifications. He figured it out it was not only difficult to build... but every developer was recreating this in their solution. He decided to build it one last time.

This is the creation story of Courier.