Justin and Jason discuss Justin's hiring strategy for Digedu and IBM's notorious “Black Team”, the women in tech controversy and how it misrepresented Paul Graham's statements on the matter, how Jason finally conquered the Triangle Peg Board Game, his recent day at the slopes and his idea for a social checklistapp, the Cradlepoint Hotspot, a post mortem on Digedu's Q4 technology goals, Salman Khan's thoughts on learning and Digedu's blended learning approach, how there were Von hipsters even in the 1600's, when boys used to wear pink, the story of Minecraft and why Sweden is such a force in IT, the English dramaWallander, why Justin uses both Sequel Pro and MySQL Workbench, how software is eating the world and how it’s hollowing out the white-collared middle class, our robotic future, Jason's sciatica, Aubrey de Grey’s link to Cambridge University, how the French high court has approved a 75 percent tax for top earners, the startup that’s refining plant seeds into jet fuel and how much jet fuel is required by US passenger and cargo airlines, how a former BP geologist claims that we hit peak oil in 2008 and why Elon Musks thinks electric jets are the future.

Justin and Jason discuss how 0.01 Bitcoin was donated to the show, why Justin has been blogging so much lately, their respective Christmas plans and family traditions, an intriguing anti-ageing compound that&#8217;s set for human trials, an Oxford debate on ageing, why science fiction tends to restrict itself to exploring such a limited set of advances and how difficult it is to predict the future, the possibility of <wbr />mind-reading technologies, how the French recently implanted the first artificial human heart, how difficult it would be to adapt to the far future, what's different about kids today, how task laziness is all relative, Justin's post refuting Bitcoin FUD and a short discussion about inflation and deflation, Jason's mad scientist idea about how to accelerate the 4th grade math team he's coaching, the latest on Catalyst, how James Jensen's kids are following along with the Catalyst concept of using real tools, Jason's monster MySQL stored procedure, why Justin rewrote a CloudDB solution in MySQL and why he doesn't use a debugger, Glenn Bennett's humo&lt;wbr /&gt;rous image validator, more on Jason's friend who's teaching himself how to code and Jason's idea for a reality TV show called Geek Up, the ‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants, CryptoLocker&#8217;s crimewave, the revelation that the NSA program has stopped zero terror attacks, how its phone surveillance program has been ruled unconstitutional, how the White House is attempting to prevent federal judges from ruling on surveillance efforts, scary acoustic cryptanalysis, how an NSA coworker remembers Edward Snowden as a genius among geniuses, how the NSA likely bribed RSA into weakening its BSAFE library, RSA&#8217;s unimpressive rebuttal and an insightful counter rebuttal, the ridiculous, whitewash 60-minutes report on the NSA and how the pandering reporter is expected to land a top intelligence role at the NYPD, how no one is watching mainstream news anymore, especially in comparison to The Walking Dead, Amazon's new show Alpha House, how Treehouse manages to get anything accomplished without managers, and their respective views on wishing people a Merry / Happy Christmas.

Justin and Jason discuss why they like recording discussion shows on Friday afternoons, PayPal dispute resolutions, Jason's friend who lost his business and is now teaching himself how to code, how to determine whether your programmers are lazy, how Fog Creek compensates their developers, why Treehouse is eliminating managers, how to inspire developers to hit deadlines, using the minmax algorithm as a game strategy, why there's so much hate for Soylent, Bitcoin and Tesla, why Justin only bought 0.01 Bitcoin and 1 share of TSLA, a method for identifying asymmetric investments, why Jason thinks Soylent haters are thinking about it all wrong, why Justin is worried about GMOs and why Jason just can't seem to get worried about it, some Christmas present ideas for Colby – like a programmable quadcopter, an heirloom chemistry set or maybe some synthetic biology, how coaching Colby's 4th grade math team is going and how the Catalyst kids are about to start programming their own games, a La Critique of CastFeedValidator and JustAddContent, the first 3D commercial game powered by asm.js, a map of the best medical prices, the new science show Futurescape with James Woods, the Neurogrid analog computer that can simulate one-million neurons using only 5 watts of power, the new SciFi show Almost Human, the British show The Wong Mans, the awesome video show This Week in Engineering, how Google has started caching email images, and how a 6,000-page report on CIA torture has been suppressed for 1 year by the Obama administration.

Justin and Jason discuss getting the show back on a weekly schedule, how listener Ben Reyes gave Jason a Bitcoin, China&#8217;s stance on crypto currencies and why it's been to their geopolitical advantage to pin the renminbi to the US dollar, how Bitcoin's inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a billionaire and whether Satoshi is really Nick Szabo, whether Amazon&#8217;s drone delivery initiative is real or a cynical public relations ploy, whether drone delivery and self-driving cars are likely to become a reality in the near future, how easy it is to remotely hack into and gain control over a modern car, the fear mongering of mainstream news, the 5K MVP, the Heyday journaling iPhone app, the Pluggio update, Jason's various secret projects – Vortex, Cryptonite, Givetronic and SnapLearn, using an S-corp to minimize consulting taxes, the prospect of building games in Catalyst, Colby's day at Uber and the RC helicopters that Justin and the guys at MightyHive bought for him, how Jason and Sandy are going to co-coach the 4th grade math team, how Soylent has hit its 1.0 formula, the creation of XNA &#8211; a synthetic DNA that&#8217;s stronger than the real thing and the fact that there are likely billions of planets in our galaxy that could support life, the show Alphas, the Mindy Project, the Goldbergs, Defiance, The Black List, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Treme, how the NSA slapped malware on 50,000+ networks, is tracking cellphone locations worldwide and how the NSA&#8217;s surveillance is having a chilling effect on American Writers, the new Bitcoin funded Assassination Market and the shocking news that men with attractive wives report higher levels of marital satisfaction.

Justin and Jason talk with Rob Walling about the rollout of his new project, Drip, as well as a few other assorted topics.

Justin and Jason talk about bringing on a potential marketing partner for AnyFu, why Justin may buy some Twitter shares, Jason's investment thesis and why he believes Apple is reverting to the mean, Google&#8217;s mystery barges, Jason's post on teaching kids how to code, Nitrous.io, the audio book Masters of Doom, the movies WarGames, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Enders Game, the surprising momentum of the Jason's posts How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area and Why I Quit Algorithmic Trading to Do Web Startups, motivations for contributing to open source projects, how listener James Jensen taught himself electronics and designed his own circuit board on Upverter, dark silicon, memristers, Darpa's analog computer initiative and spintronics, how IQ doesn&#8217;t appear to be set in stone and why watching TV probably doesn&#8217;t make you dumber, the Flynn effect and James Flynn&#8217;s TED Talk, the relationship of working memory to IQ, how Jason embedded Sandy's voice into a trading system's audible alerts, wireless devices powered by ambient backscatter rather than batteries, how US hypocrisy has come to light as a result of the Manning and Snowden revelations, combining mastery learning with the flipped classroom approach and Bloom&#8217;s two-sigma problem.

Justin and Jason discuss the debt ceiling and the government shutdown, the upcoming Limitless television show, a theory on what made Einstein so clever and the difficulty in finding a genetic map for IQ, how the Arsenic DNA paper exposed flaws in the peer review process and The Reproducibility Project, the television shows Breaking Bad, Falling Skies, Revolution, Defiance, The Agents of Shield and The Walking Dead, how to make Star Wars great again, the first two sessions of Catalyst's second year, how kids differ in the way their brains work, training Colby to play quarterback and his Uber birthday party, using evolutionary strategies to solve Uber's worker allocation problem, how Jason got to take pitches in a major league baseball stadium, installation problems with Kerbal Space Program, how Justin is looking to hire someone to do devops at Digedu and how Hired.com&#8217;s business model compares to what Mecruit was going to try.

Justin and Jason discuss the emergency emails that Justin received from Digedu while on vacation and why he selected Sifter as a project management tool, how Uber and Digedu use Git, Git rebase vs Git merge and general GitHub bureaucracy, how Digedu makes use of NodeJS and how Uber leverages the NodeJS profiler that Jason and Guyon created, the rising importance of system administration <wbr />expertise, Jason's idea of teaching the Catalyst kids basic command line skills and why it may make sense to abandon the Catalyst IDE, the incredible rise in the Telsa stock price and the Tesla autopilot project, the self-driving car intersection simulation, the simulation software that shows Elon Musk&#8217;s Hyperloop is likely to work, how Alien bugs were discovered in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the hell that is the iOS developer center, the idea of segmenting AnyFu between premier and standard level experts and the possibility of bringing on a business / marketing partner, the segment on This American Life that mentions Jason's high school, how to increase your luck surface area by writing about increasing your luck surface area, how the CIA has been arming and training rebels since late 2012, the Pentagon&#8217;s desire to get in on the actions, AIPAC&#8217;s push for war and why the US ultimately backed down, Jason's @ tweet to his congressional representative, the famo.us Javascript rendering framework and how China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique.