Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2024?

Personal favorites:

Conversations with Tyler - Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada (Ep. 221). I found Tobi's viewpoint as a European who has set up a business in North America to be particularly interesting and unique.

The Rest is Politics - Trump Returns: What Now? I was not pleased by the result but this podcast helped me process it and understand some of the reasoning behind it.

The Social Radars - Dan Siroker. First time coming across the Optimizely story and found it a fascinating one.

What's on your list?

Hard Fork by the NYT

Robert Wright's NonZero

The Lovecraft Investigations

Within the Wires

Ctrl Alt Azure

Animal Spirits

Effectively Wild

The Changelog

Unbiased by jordanismylawyer

She gives a rundown of a days events, gives context, and legal analysis

The opening guitar that will get burned into brain is of unknown provenance. It's just called 'guitar solo #3' and came with the free sound editing software when he bought the audio card.

The USA is not falling like Rome. Rome lasted 800 years and the fall was imperceptable to them. Everything used as a marker for the fall happened more than once. The capital was moved away from Rome but came back several times. There were two Ceasars many times but they went back to one many times. Rome was sacked but recovered more than once. The eastern roman empire lasted arguably another thousand years.

The Romans had a rule that every man was instantly out of the army when coming back from war when they crossed a small stream near rome called the rubicon. To prevent what J. Ceaser did, keeping his army together and taking over.

Rome had about 400 really good years, 200 as a republic, J. Ceasar, then 200 years of the empire. Things didnt change all that much with the end of 'democracy' for a while.

J Christ was alive during emperor Tiberius, and is not mentioned in their records at all. No reason for it, he was unknown during his life and lived in an insignificant province at the very edge of the empire.

all from memory of course, YMMV.

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