The Zuckerberg financial system, a simulator of loneliness and the father of the US nuclear fleet

The theme of the release is the world financial system. Mark Zuckerberg.

When Facebook introduced Libra , it stated that it was a cryptocurrency that would facilitate access to financial services for the poorest half of humanity.

This is not entirely true. Judging by the description, this is not just a “new world currency”, as it is written on the website, but also a digital imprint of the global financial system. We have analyzed in detail how Libra works and how it differs, for example, from JPMorgan coins and Durov's TON platform, here .

Here's a summary:

• Libra is backed by a financial reserve, which by the launch in 2020 will be at least $1 billion (each of the 100 founders will contribute $10 million).
• The reserve is stored in stable world currencies and sovereign securities, it is distributed around the world, and Libra itself is a Swiss corporation.
• Technologically, the Libra network is less flexible than TON, and at the current level of technology promises about 1000 transactions per second (TON promises millions).
• The founders will manage the system. Only over time, everyone will be able to authenticate transactions.
• Although the transactions are “pseudo-named”, there are users authenticated by the participants on both sides of the transfer, so that regulators cannot find fault, everything always ends up in real money.
• Libra is expected to significantly reduce the cost of money transfers, which is very important for developing countries - for many, the entire economy is tied to this.
• Facebook wins in transfers between 2.7 billion users of the ecosystem, in e-commerce on its sites, as well as in creating a single trading and advertising space.
• Although it will be difficult for Facebook to control the association with votes (one member of the Libra Association cannot have more than 1% by charter), it controls the access of other members to billions of consumers.

+1 Loneliness and +2 Productivity

• Multiplayer game Things We Lost in the Flood developed. This is a loneliness simulator where users can only exchange messages by throwing a bottle with a message into the endless ocean. It is impossible to see other players. The goal of the game is to collect some red discs that you can throw at mysterious doors. Every 100th player who throws the disc can enter and there either pick up the winnings or press the lever that brings him death. For him, the game will end anyway, but if a hundred players pull the lever, Things We Lost in the Flood will end forever.
• For several years now, static page generators have been in vogue, which distill documents into plain HTML, in which web pages are written. Instead of creating such a page in a text editor, you need to go several levels higher: use a different markup language, a program that processes it, and possibly additional dynamic elements. Dozens of similar systems have appeared, but almost no one even remembers that HTML documents can be written in the same HTML. John Ankarström is convinced that for simple tasks you need to use simple tools.
• If you still want something more advanced, check out the list of programming languages ​​worth learning in 2019 (spoiler alert: the top 5 are TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and Go).

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