Month: October 2021

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 Bonus: Philippe Kwiatkowski, Ubico

Phillipe Kwiatkowski has been addicted to gaming since he was a teenager. He played games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Grand Theft Auto. In the process, he discovered multiplayer mods, that allowed you to play online - which was his first introduction to coding. When he was 16, he got his first freelancing gig building websites. Eventually, he studied computer science at University, and interestingly, he joined an accelerator. There were a ton of smart people, working on very interesting problems. For fun, he enjoys playing soccer, and has played ever since high school. He also enjoys running, and in fact, is sorta prepping for a marathon. Eventually he would love to do a spartan race as well.

During the days when he was involved in the accelerator, Phil started noticing that many founder problems were centered around distribution - or how to get their products in front of customers. He decided to build a better cold email tool, one that solved these problems. And it worked.

This is the creation story of Ubico.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Gas-trick distress: a visit to Ukraine

Russia continues to pile pressure on the country, and will soon have the power to cut off its natural gas. Our correspondent pays a visit to find how Ukrainians cope. The simplest solution to renewables’ intermittency is to move electricity around—but that requires vast new international networks of seriously beefy cables. And Canada’s version of American football is wasting away. 

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Is Trump Still On Virginia’s Ballot?

Virginia’s gubernatorial election is just weeks away, with former Virginia governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, vying against newcomer Republican Glenn Youngkin. Many polls show a slim margin between the two candidates, as they spar over issues like critical race theory and Trump’s legacy in an election seen as a bellwether for the upcoming midterm elections.


Guest: Ben Paviour, state politics reporter at VPM. 


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The Best One Yet - 🍕 “The greatest streak is over” — Domino’s era ends. Apple’s Dr. AirPods. Instacart’s smartest cart.

Our favorite streak in Wall Street history ended as the era of Domino’s domination closes. Instacart just made its biggest acquisition ever: It’s a shopping cart so smart you’ll think it’s a Tesla. And Apple’s big event revealed that it wants AirPods to replace iPhone as its future #ProfitPuppy. $DPZ $AAPL Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform 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 - Is Trump Still On Virginia’s Ballot?

Virginia’s gubernatorial election is just weeks away, with former Virginia governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, vying against newcomer Republican Glenn Youngkin. Many polls show a slim margin between the two candidates, as they spar over issues like critical race theory and Trump’s legacy in an election seen as a bellwether for the upcoming midterm elections.


Guest: Ben Paviour, state politics reporter at VPM. 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Navajo Code Talkers

Secrecy is a huge part of military success. You want to be able to communicate with your own forces without the enemy finding out what your plans are. As America entered World War II, they were in need of a method of communication that couldn’t be cracked by Germany or Japan. They found the answer they were looking for in the languages of Native Americans. Learn more about Navajo Code Talkers and the other Native American languages used in World War II

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Getting Hammered - The B Word

The Virginia gubernatorial race is the b word. Bellwether, that is, for what's to come in 2022 and 2024. Mary Katharine and Vic pay tribute to the late Colin Powell, fact-check Fauci's football season fears, and talk about teens developing the TikTok tics.

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  • 0:10 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 05:59 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 06:02 - Rest in peace, Colin Powell
  • 10:00 - Virginia governor's race
  • 17:05 - Vice President Harris releases video for black churches endorsing Virginia Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe
  • 19:00 - Allison Williams quits ESPN over vaccine mandate
  • 22:58 - NFL free agent Cam Newton gets vaccinated
  • 24:11 - TSA vaccination rates post federal mandate
  • 27:41 - Biden administration reverses Trump's shower head deregulation
  • 30:55 - Football and a Fauci Fact-Check
  • 37:00 - Thomas Jefferson statue to get the boot from New York City's city hall
  • 40:37 - Teens develop tics from TikTok
  • 45:32 - Segment: Hosts in the Hot Seat
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NBN Book of the Day - Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, “The Opioid Epidemics in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures” (Routledge, 2021)

The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more effective opiate for chronic pain management. By 2017, the opioid epidemic had become a full-blown crisis as over two million Americans had become dependent on and abused prescription pain pills and street drugs.

The Opioid Epidemics in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures (Routledge, 2021) examines the origins, development, and rise of the opioid epidemic in the United States from the perspective of the public policy process. The authors, political scientists Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky, discuss institutional features of the American political system that impact the making of public policy, arguing that the fragmentation of that system hinders the ability to coherently address policy problems, taking the opioid epidemic as an example. The book begins with a brief historical examination of the history of the problem of opioid addiction and crises in the United States and public policy responses to past crises, but the main focus is on the current national public health emergency.

Geert Slabbekoorn works as an analyst in the field of public security. In addition he has published on different aspects of dark web drug trade in Belgium. Find him on twitter, tweeting all things drug related @GeertJS.

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