Month: November 2023

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The Best One Yet - 🎲 “SportsCenter Casino” — ESPN’s new betting app. De Beers’ diamond vault. Apple’s Google bribe.

ESPN launched its first sports betting app yesterday to crack the dominance of DraftKings and FanDuel — It just might work, media and tech can be teammates.

Diamond prices have plummeted 40% this year, so De Beers it’s stockpiling them to prop up prices — Diamonds are forever… but they’re also not forever.

Google just accidentally shared an embarrassing number: 36% — That’s the awkward cut Google pays Apple for any revenue made while you surf a Safari browser.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Trump’s Second Term

If you want to imagine what Donald Trump’s second presidential term would look like, look at what he left unfinished from his first—and listen to his long list of personal grievances.


Guest: Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, co-author of The Divider, a history of Donald Trump in the White House.


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What Could Go Right? - Change Is the Operative Force of History with Drew Gilpin Faust

What are the dangers of not acknowledging what has gotten better? How do we understand the marks history leaves on individuals? And what does a former president of Harvard think of higher education in the US today? We hear from historian, civil rights activist, and the first woman president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, about how her story and how activism can actually make a difference.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Curtis Chin’s memoir pays homage to his family’s Chinese restaurant

There are lots of things Curtis Chin, co-founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, learned at his family's Chinese restaurant: how to be curious, how to be kind, how to create community. His new memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, recalls Chin's upbringing as a gay Chinese-American boy in 1980s Detroit, and how the family business served as the ultimate safe space – not just for him, but for everyone in the city. He tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about the diverse clientele that frequented the restaurant, and how it continues to shape his worldview today.

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Hayek Program Podcast - Peter Boettke & Jennifer Burns on the Life of Milton Friedman

This week, Peter Boettke interviews Jennifer Burns, author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Milton Friedman achieved tremendous sucess as an economist including being a John Bates Clark Medal winner, a Nobel Prize winner, and the president of the American Economic Association (AEA). In this episode, they discuss Friedman's time at Columbia University, the origin of his economic theory, the influence of Frank Knight, Friedman's female coauthors including Anna Schwartz and Rose Friedman, Friedman's association to conservatism, and more.

Jennifer Burns is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and a Research Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. She is the author of Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (November, 2023) and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009). An expert on this history of conservative ideas and politics, she has written for The NewYork Times, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Dissent, and has discussed her work on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and elsewhere.

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Opening Arguments - OA832: The Sam Bankman-Fried Story: Math Whiz Bets He’s Smarter Than Prosecutors, Loses (feat. Mitchell Epner)

Liz and Andrew welcome back Mitchell Epner to explain exactly what happened with the Sam Bankman-Fried trial.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

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Chronosphere is introducing Lens, a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services. 

At Uber, Rob created M3, an open-source metrics engine compatible with Prometheus.  

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, ralf htp, for their answer to How to read an image in Python OpenCV. 

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Amarica's Constitution - Moore on the Brief – Special Guest Vikram David Amar

The Amars’ amicus brief in Moore vs. United States is the talk of the legal ecosphere.  Akhil’s co-author, Professor Vik Amar, joins us for analysis of the precedents that followed Hylton - faithful and otherwise.  This tour de force of legal analysis is perfectly suited for your CLE credit.  We also look at recent comments from the Supreme Court on Moore’s issues, and survey the reactions to the brief’s release.  Various arguments that purport to address some of the brief’s claims have emerged:  in support, in conflict, and complementary; we analyze and respond to them.

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It Could Happen Here - Operation 1027 and the Mandalay PDF

 James talks to Billy Ford of the United States Institute of Peace and Sayar Mohn Tine of the Mandalay PDF about the huge changes in the conflict in Myanmar and how the PDFs and EROS built an alliance that put the junta on the back foot.

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This Machine Kills - Patreon Preview – 296. TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Ch. 6

We discuss Chapter 6 — Transcendental Class Domination — and get deeper into an analysis of class relations, the nature of economic power, and how capital wields this form of “impersonal domination” to structure the very “conditions of possibility” for existence and experience in the world. ••• Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Søren Mau https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2759-mute-compulsion Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)