Month: September 2021

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: A $1.5T Asset Manager Is Getting Into Bitcoin

As bitcoin hits $50,000 again, more news of institutional adoption and mainstreaming. 

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

Today on the Brief:

  • Binance dinged by Singapore authorities while discussing Binance.us going public 
  • Former CFTC Chair Giancarlo leaves BlockFi board of directors after only four months 
  • SEC takes action against … Bitconnect?


Our main discussion: Franklin Templeton has posted a job listing for a crypto trader, while Vast bank now offers bitcoin buying and selling directly from FDIC banking. NLW explores what’s next in the bitcoin market cycle. 

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Big Technology Podcast - The Platform Delusion — With Columbia Business Professor Jonathan Knee

Jonathan Knee is a professor at Columbia Business School and senior advisor at the investment bank Evercore. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss The Platform Delusion, his forthcoming book about how the term "platform" has become overused to the point that it has little meaning. Is Sweetgreen really a platform. Well, Sweetgreen thinks so (c'mon now). Listen for a discussion covering what should actually be called a platform, the fundamentals of the tech giants' businesses, and whether students should go to startups coming out of school.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Legal Drugs in America, Drone Birds, and the Iron Law of Prohibition

A listener writes in response to the Classic episode on legal drugs. A caller relates a story about drones built to look like birds. The guys dive into the concept of the iron law of prohibition. All this and more in this week's listener mail.

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Headlines From The Times - How Native Americans became a vaccine success story

Fewer ethnic groups in the U.S. have been harder hit by COVID-19 than Native Americans. It’s killed them at more than twice the rate of whites. The pandemic has exacerbated longstanding health inequities, and a deep-rooted distrust in the federal government made tribal leaders fearful that members would reject the government-endorsed vaccines.

But the opposite happened. Native Americans now have the highest vaccination rates of any major racial or ethnic group in the United States. L.A. Times Seattle bureau chief Richard Read and Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez explain why.

More reading:

Despite obstacles, Native Americans have the nation’s highest COVID-19 vaccination rate

COVID-19 is crushing Native American reservations. But distrust of the government makes vaccines a hard sell

They know the sick. On Navajo Nation, contact tracers work to control coronavirus on vast lands

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 09/02

At least nine killed as Ida's remnants bring floods and tornadoes to the Northeast. A break on the California fire lines. Chipping away at Roe v Wade. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 Bonus: Rahul Sidhu, SpidrTech

Rahul Sidhu was one of those kids who was always fiddling with computers. He even had a small tech startup in high school, to help him pay his way through college. Out of High School, he was an EMT, and studied emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Post that, he became a paramedic crew chief, overseeing an assigned rescue crew and shift. In 2013, he became a police officer full time.

He is a regular at the gym, which obviously shows that fitness is important to him, along with hanging out with his family and friends. He's a golfer, and is recently trying to get better at it. And, he likes to travel through food, as he says it, planning his trips around the best places to eat.

In 2015, within the Techstars program in New York, Rahul and his co-founders were running out of cash, unable to deliver on what they were intending. After some helpful words from a friendly former Chief, he and his team decided to keep it simple, and attempt to help police departments solve the "customer service" problem.

This is the creation story of Spidr Tech.

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Bay Curious - State of Drought 5: Desalination, Water Recycling and More

A lot of listeners, including Steve Held, want to know why Bay Area cities aren't investing more in desalination plants as a long term fix to our water problems. We’re a state with 840 miles of coastline. Most of our big population areas are near the ocean. Why don’t we have more desalination plants? In this episode, we'll also talk about wastewater recycling and water budgeting.

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Reported by Katrina Schwartz. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Sebastian Miño-Bucheli and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Kevin Stark, Bianca Taylor, Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Isabeth Mendoza, Paul Lancour, Suzie Racho, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Jenny Pritchett.