To any Asian Americans reading this, I’m sorry for how the media discriminates against your identity. Out of all the affiliations with Epstein, why do they focus on this one?
When I was in high school, back before the news feed, Facebook was the best way to flirt! Go to someone’s page and post a comment — it was was so casual. Too bad Facebook killed it when they started broadcasting everything you post.
This is why people defaulted to Snapchat shortly after. Having temporary messages/pictures was ideal when after seeing evidence of failed relationships, people wanted the evidence of early flirting to be gone from the record.
Paypal has taken thousands of dollars from me and won't let me access my account with a pre-paid phone. It's hard, but avoid them if you can. I inherently distrust Facebook's Libra project because of Paypal's involvement.
It's very possible this initiative will be low impact. Most people don't care about currency -- they just want to spend their money in the terms they're used to.
My one concern: if the libra's value is based on a basket of assets, will US users still see the value in terms of USD? Will French users see their value in Euro? Will the value of my USD change based on the basket of securities backing libra?
I just want an easy solution to send money cross borders. Someone in Mexico right now owes me $80 and there's no easy way to do this. If she could send it to me through WhatsApp with a near zero fee I'd see the value in libra.
>My one concern: if the libra's value is based on a basket of assets, will US users still see the value in terms of USD? Will French users see their value in Euro? Will the value of my USD change based on the basket of securities backing libra?
I don't know what the UI will be like, but I guarantee that there will be an exchange rate of USD to Libra and it will shift as USD's value shifts against other currencies in the basket.
Will the money go to some government black hole? Seems like a waste of resources. How about requiring Facebook to offer better services or open source more tech.
By 2010, the administration I wrote this memo for would totally squander America's opportunity to lead the free world. Not learning from the US-MX war of 1840s or the Vietnam war of 1960s, we embarked on a costly and disastrous military initiative in Iraq. We destroyed privacy with the Patriot Act and crashed the global economy in 2008.
When something bad happens - take a plane crash for example - its never just one thing you can point to and say that was 100% to blame. There's always a series of events that compound together - decisions and shortcuts made years or decades before a catastrophe occurs that all work up to the event.
I could just as easily blame the British for the Balfour declaration... which led to the current Mideast strife - which led to AlQaeda causing 9/11 which lead to the military interventions in Iraq.
My point is - its too facile to blame the Bush administration for everything. Look further back...
That sort of feels like trying to justify poor choices via a belief in magical predetermination to me, though.
Al Qaeda being caused by whatever they were caused by has absolutely no bearing on the actual decisions made after their attacks on 9/11.
9/11 happening doesn't determine what the outcome of 9/11 will be in terms of policy response.
The response of the Bush administration was important, and led to many (I suspect intentional) negative outcomes for the American public in general.
To just wave it away and say - it comes from earlier in history - strikes me as a bad idea at best, and a way to avoid responsibility for your actions at worst.
So who's responsible for the poor execution of the military initiative in Iraq? Was it predetermined to be a failure or could there have been a more successful outcome?
Predicting events is one thing, but there are certainly better ways to predict the results of policies.
