Month: April 2022

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Lex Fridman Podcast - #276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money

Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy and a prominent holder and proponent of Bitcoin. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:09) – Grading our understanding
(19:27) – Inflation
(39:03) – Government
(1:00:13) – War and power
(1:11:23) – Dematerializing information
(1:42:45) – Digital energy and assets
(1:54:23) – Oil barrel vs Bitcoin
(2:03:43) – Layers of Bitcoin
(2:20:53) – Bitcoin’s role during wartime
(2:25:37) – Jack Dorsey
(2:41:58) – Bitcoin conflict of interest
(2:48:39) – Satoshi Nakamoto
(2:54:04) – Volatility
(3:06:30) – Bitcoin price
(3:18:46) – Twitter verification
(3:27:42) – Second best crypto
(3:33:24) – Dogecoin
(3:37:57) – Elon Musk
(3:43:26) – Advice for young people
(3:54:54) – Mortality
(3:57:59) – Meaning of life

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Federalist Radio Hour - How UChicago Students Humiliated The Ruling Class At Its Own Conference

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Evita Duffy, founder and managing editor of The Chicago Thinker, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how a group of students from the University of Chicago embarrassed some of the corporate media regime's most prominent figures by simply asking them questions at a "disinformation" conference. 

Read more from Duffy and the students at the Thinker here: https://thechicagothinker.com/
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Playing Small Ball During a Tsunami

Today’s podcast explores the fact that on this date in 2018, Donald Trump’s approval rating was 42.8 percent—and today Joe Biden’s is 40.6 percent. The Republican Party was battered in the 2018 elections, but Biden and the Democrats are still hopeful they can ward off disaster through “small ball” tactics. We examine them, and the continuing madness of the CDC’s efforts to keep masks on Americans. Source

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: The Killenworth Mansion, the Strange Story of Marcus Hutchins, the Problem with Medical Implants

Brett from Facebook hips the gang to the story of Marcus Hutchins, a hacker who singlehandedly saved the internet. Justin responds to Ben's earlier questions about the sticky -- and dangerous -- ethics of medical impants, especially when they become outdated. Talbot asks for more details about the mysterious, controversial Killenworth Mansion, currently functioning as a country house for the Russian government. All this and more in this week's listener mail.

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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State of the World from NPR - Investigating possible Russian war crimes, The aftermath of a Russian siege

The U.S. and European allies have accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine. The Biden administration says it's helping Ukraine investigate. How? And Russia left death and destruction in towns north of Kyiv. What is life like now in one of those towns? Our team travels to Borodyanka.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - The Story That Made—and Saved—America

The Exodus—the story of the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery 3,000 years ago—is the ultimate story of freedom. And not just for Jews. But for people seeking liberation from subjugation in so many other times and places. Including here in America. 


From the founding fathers, to abolitionists like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas, to presidents like Lincoln and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr, the themes and symbols and moral truths of the Exodus story have been at the core of how Americans seeking freedom from tyranny have seen themselves. One could argue that without the Exodus there might be no America.


To make that case on the eve of Passover—and to take us on a tour of the way the Exodus has been used throughout American history—Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, who teaches at Yeshiva University and helms the oldest synagogue in the United States. 


You don’t need to be a believer to love this episode. You just need to be concerned with how divided we have become, how we have lost a shared sense of reality, a shared sense of ethics, and shared stories from which we can draw universal meaning and inspiration.

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Headlines From The Times - The case that ended ‘Mexican-only’ schools

In 1945, five families sued school districts in Orange County to challenge the practice of so-called Mexican schools, which kept Latino students from attending white schools with better resources. The daughter of one of the plaintiffs, Sylvia Mendez, has spent her retirement telling the story of the landmark desegregation case, which was decided 75 years ago on April 14, 1947.

But she goes from school to school talking about the importance of this case at a time when Latino students are, in many ways, more segregated than ever.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times education reporter Paloma Esquivel

More reading:

Mendez vs. segregation: 70 years later, famed case ‘isn’t just about Mexicans. It’s about everybody coming together’

Op-Ed: How Mexican immigrants ended ‘separate but equal’ in California

Westminster council takes steps to recognize historic civil rights case