The definition of cryptocurrency includes the language "operating independently of a central bank". These ~100 stakeholders sound somewhat analogous to federal reserve branches. It's a pseudo central bank. The U.S. should be raising huge red flags about Libra. If financial transactions in US dollars decline, and Libra increases, it reduces the United States' ability to conduct effective monetary policy. But, if Libra can't exist in a stable manner, as all other cryptocurrencies have failed to do, perhaps the problem will resolve itself, and the dominate nature of the U.S. Dollar will continue.
If you live in the United States, you don't want Libra to succeed. You don't want your paycheck in Libra, you don't want mortgage payments in Libra. You want a central bank that has some capacity of providing stability to our economy.
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Common Lisp deserves more love. People are just too much jealous to admit that CL is one of the best language of the world. How someone can think that JavaScript, PHP, Java and other stuff alike are at least non-miserable in comparison with something so powerful as Common Lisp?
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Keeping the humor-ish stuff aside, actually taking CL here as example it's someway ignorant. That's doesn't make any sense to me. Seems that all that opinion are based in nothing more that nothing when it concerns about Common Lisp literature experience and personal experience with the language.
Some languages are popular, but they being popular doesn't proofs that they are good languages. This is a fact based on the type of problems most of the people are trying to solve.
CL being big it's some way comparable to C++, but for big problems, sometimes we need complex tools. CL is not for kids, neither C++. Common Lisp it's a language for hackers.
If you live in the United States, you don't want Libra to succeed. You don't want your paycheck in Libra, you don't want mortgage payments in Libra. You want a central bank that has some capacity of providing stability to our economy.