Recode Decode: Lisa Dickey, author, 'Bears in the Streets'

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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"Bears in the Streets" author Lisa Dickey talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, which chronicles three trips to Russia at three very different times in its history — 1995, 2005 and 2015. Dickey's first journey across the continent was a pioneering work of digital photography and early web publishing, while her later trips illuminated how tech, politics and everything else was changing. She says Americans get a lot wrong about the Russian people and Russians get a lot wrong about Americans, but the two countries have more in common than they realize. Dickey shares some of the strangest stories from her visits to the country, including an unexpectedly contentious trip to see the Matt Damon movie "The Martian" and arguments over whether 9/11 was an inside job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	To build the kinds of things developers want to build today, they need better tools.
0:04.8	That's why Amazon Web Services built Amazon Aurora.
0:08.1	It's a relational database engine that's compatible with mySQL and PostGressQL.
0:13.6	And it provides up to five times the performance of the standard MySQL on the same hardware at
0:18.7	a tenth of the cost.
0:20.4	Amazon Aurora from AWS can scale up to millions of transactions per minute.
0:25.7	It automatically grows your storage to 64 terabytes.
0:28.9	That's a lot of terabytes.
0:30.3	And it replicates data to three different availability zones.
0:33.8	You don't have to manage a thing.
0:35.7	There are no upfront charges, no commitments, you only pay for what you use.
0:39.8	Check it out at aurora.awks.
0:44.4	Recode radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:50.4	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:54.2	You may know me as the person who keeps sending Russian nesting dolls to the White House,
0:58.2	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about
1:02.1	tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
1:06.7	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode anywhere you listen to podcasts.
1:10.7	We're on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Tuning, Stitcher, SoundCloud, and more.
1:15.7	Or just visit recode.net slash podcasts for more.
1:19.9	Today in the red chair is Lisa Dickie, the author of Bears in the Streets.
1:24.6	It's a book about three trips.
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