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079 - Exploring Fastmail

080 - A History of Computing with Dr. Drang

Gabe, Erik, and Potatowire discuss file storage and time travel literature. Along the way, they touch on Erik's broken DAS, Crashplan restore speeds, Gabe's new Synology, WD Blacks vs. Reds, SMART Failures, two-factor authentication, building your own NAS from first principles, thumb drives, digital hoarding, bullet-time, hyperlapse, and the utopian optimism of Paul Verhoven's RoboCop.

015 - The Beep of Death

Gabe and Potatowire brave the Storm of the Century to talk storms, taxes, Amazon Prime, movies, and Lego.

016 - Storm of the Century

There is increasing interest among companies -- small and large -- in putting together technical advisory boards. It sounds pretty straightforward: get some senior technical experts to help with the technical speed bumps. But if that is all your technical advisory board is, you are missing out. Built and utilized correctly, a technical advisory board can be a huge advantage when it comes to mapping out a long-term strategic plan, finding talent, and building a great engineering culture.

On this segment of the a16z Podcast we break down the right way to build a technical advisory board; what you should expect from the board (and just as important, what you shouldn’t). And for those looking to serve on a technical advisory board, the reasons to do it, as well as the things to consider before committing.

This conversation was recorded as part of an event featuring four technical experts: Arnie Goldberg from PayPal; Purnima Padmanabhan, former CEO of Cavirin; Alex Roetter, SVP of Engineering at Twitter; and a16z General Partner Peter Levine.

a16z Podcast: Building the Right Technical Advisory Board

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Addressing our nation’s history of racial injustice can be a truly backbreaking endeavor. Race-based affirmative action is usually thought of as one such effort, and colleges and universities often use it in their admissions process. However, affirmative action does seem to lower standards for certain under-represented minorities like Blacks and Hispanics. Should we think of affirmative action as patronizing those minorities, or rectifying the injustices they face? Is affirmative action enough to redress racial injustice, or is it simply the best we can do for the time being? John and Ken welcome Glenn Loury from Brown University, author of "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality."

Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much?

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Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/samabuelsamid?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">Sam Abuelsamid,</a><a href="https://twitter.com/samred?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank"> Sam Machkovech</a>
Amazon Echo might have its own inexpensive music streaming service. Google is funding immersive video and content in preparation for its upcoming VR effort Daydream for Android. Facebook is testing autoplay video ads with the audio turned on...that is a bad idea, don't you think? Tesla shows off a big bleeping battery atop its new Model S P100D. And soon, you'll be playing PS3 games on your Windows PC, legitimately.
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TNT 1583: Put a Bot On It

<img src="https://elroycdn.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_144x144/public/images/shows/home_theater_geeks/album_art/audio/htg1400audio.jpg?itok=Zqit2awu" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="Home Theater Geeks (MP3)" alt="Home Theater Geeks (MP3)"/>Journalists Chris Chinnock of Insight Media and Mike Heiss of Residential Systems and TWICE join host Scott Wilkinson to talk about what we learned about the future of display technology at DisplayWeek 2017. Topics include color conversion of blue light to longer-wavelength colors using quantum dots and phosphors, the various forms of QLED technology (photo-enhanced, photo-emissive, electro-emissive), an early demonstration of a full-color electro-emissive QD display, bendable OLED screens, micro LED, microdisplays, AR/VR, lightfield displays, a transparent flat-panel directional speaker, answers to chat-room questions, and more. 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/scott-wilkinson">Scott Wilkinson</a> 
Guests: Chris Chinnock and <a href="http://michaelheiss.com" target="_blank">Michael Heiss</a> 
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Home Theater Geeks 356: The Future of Displays

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Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/denise-howell">Denise Howell</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/j-michael-keyes">J. Michael Keyes</a> 
Guests: <a href="http://www.lawpint.com/" target="_blank">Matt Curtis</a> and <a href="https://www.littler.com/people/zoe-m-argento" target="_blank">Zoe Argento</a> 
Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-law">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-law</a>.<ul><li><a href="https://tagpacker.com/user/thisweekinlaw" target="_blank">Public list of discussion points</a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thisWEEKinLAW" target="_blank">TWiL on Facebook</a></li></ul>Attorneys may submit a self-study form to their local CLE board seeking <a href="http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/This_WEEK_in_LAW_CLE_Credit" target="_blank">MCLE credit</a> approval. Please check the rules and requirements for your specific jurisdiction before submitting any forms.Special thanks to Nigel Clutterbuck for the TWiL theme music.Thanks to <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a> for the bandwidth for this show.

This Week in Law 388: Lawyers, Guns, and Unions

<img src="https://elroycdn.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_144x144/public/images/shows/tech_news_today/album_art/audio/tnt1400audio.jpg?itok=9dCMXjXQ" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="Tech News Today (MP3)" alt="Tech News Today (MP3)"/>According to a new study by Rutgers University, Airbnb hosts are discriminating against people with disabilities. Researchers completed a randomized field experiment of 3,847 lodging requests made between June and November, 2016 in the continental US.Qualcomm's updated Quick Charge 4 Plus will speed up Quick Charge to be 15% faster, lower the temperature while charging by up to 3 degrees, and has improved safety features that monitor temperatures to make sure things don't overheat or short circuit while charging.Corporate-level password management service OneLogin admits that a recent data breach exposed customer data, even data that was encrypted. The attack started May 31st in the company's US Operating Region.Plus, Delicious is bought by Pinboard and it'll be shut down for good, Facebook is working on a chat app for kids, Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica talks good news and bad news for Nintendo Switch Online, and why Tekken 7 is so good on the PC. 
Hosts: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/megan-morrone">Megan Morrone</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/samred" target="_blank">Sam Machkovech</a> 
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