And this is one how and several competing wise. How do you go about getting the digital equivalent for currency for cash and coining it is a significant technical challenge and you need to create a Digital Object that is difficult to forge and duplicate. Easy to verify, prove it is what it claims to be under all kinds of conditions and constraints for all people. You must be able to carry the information what it is, what it is worth without generating any information how it is used or by whom and has to do this on platforms and networks and machines that generate effectively perfect copies and transaction logs and records. So to figure out the how of how to make Something Like cash digital is a very tall order which raises the question why you would need to build such a thing. Answering the question will take us from fighting surveillance to libertarian theories of economics and the pursuit of human mortality and all of thes agendas fed into the creation of bit coin and the cryptocurre
The senate live here on cspan2. Next, a look at the challenges of caring for Senior Citizens with caregivers testifying on the lack of affordable longterm care for the elderly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] would members and their guests please take their seats . Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in our nation, and that is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is certainly appropriate that we work to address this matter or in november, which is alzheimers Awareness Month and u. S. National Family Caregivers month. It is a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room, and for those who havent personally struggled to insure an older relative receives the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can be not only confusing and emotionally taxing, but also
Violent extremism and said talk to me about what you are doing. And she said im doing a lot and Hillary Clinton decided and then thats a person to create a brandnew job special representative to muslim communities around the world. With the National Security Council First time ever filled position at the state department but most important is very different when i was at the state department for what we Work Together on. But i was amazed. How incredibly smart she is. And has a way to say that you will understand. Very complex problems. When you talk about the violent extremist and went said to me i knew you wouldnt sleep at night. And knew that i could not think things are that would even come close so what we are doing is the ideological battle and it calls for a different kind of response. And it is very well detailed in the book. What seems to be the intractable problem. So there is a line in the book where you say this is a tractable that this is not countering violent extremism ta
Obama finds no easy answers and plenty of contradictions and the problems of our time. But his other books include the breakthrough essay collection, my misspent youth and the unspeakable, which won the penn center usa award for creative nonfiction. Shes also received fellowships from the guggenheim and National Endowment for the arts fellowships and she teaches in the mfa writing program at columbia university. Thank you all for coming out. Im always really relieved when people show up. I love coming to the strand and i love seeing people very early in my career, not that really, actually earlier i was on a book tour i was in minneapolis, in st. Paul and it turned out to be the same night that David Sedaris was doing a reading at the university in minneapolis and in like a stadium basically. Anybody who was anybody who cared about this went to see david who did errors except for one young woman who showed up at my event and she had driven 100 miles from her parents farm to come see me
Services Committee Members will have on today were joined by congressman Anthony Brown democrat from maryland also a retired colonel in u. S. Army reserve the ploy to iraq. I want to start with sears and a to the president s remarks yesterday aboutar the quote great out, that he achieved in syria. His remarks were remarkable in terms of sort of creating this phantom victory of accomplishment where its really anything but. I rarely agree with Mitch Mcconnell but i think here i will certainly adopt his characterization, which is this is been a great strategic mistake on the part of President Trump withdrawing troops, u. S. Troops, a small footprint from northern syria. And it leaves a lot of Unanswered Questions and increase risk for america, isis, the possible reemergence of isis. Isis. Yesterday we did note po hear mh about how were going to counter that. We didnt hear anything yesterday about what steps will be taken to prevent ethnic cleansing as turkey has promised to return press u