Already. Here we go. Just in time for thanksgiving. A book to help you deal with people whom you disagree. So everyone, get im out and get your company. All right, gamble, intro, questions. Please send viewers up. They dont have to be just related to the book. It would go. My name is melissa kane, welcome to the club news posting of scott adams. In the new book, loser thing, the identity of shortterm debts. If these were thrown to leaving bad ideas. He is responsible for what people stereotyping all the time supporters is racist, leaving that gun control is equal to full compensation and most importantly avoiding self reflection join personal relationships and period were very excited to have him here with us tonight to discuss his new book. Loser thing. And whatever else you guys would like to ask him. He has told me that that thing is loft offlimits for so they go. Please welcome scott adams. [applause] loser say is the word i invented. I noticed join i was im twitter mostly the deba
Will jump right in. No interest in giving a speech before so we are just going to start asking questions. Here we go, and just in time for thanksgiving. A book to help you deal with people with whom you disagree. [laughter] so, intro and questions. Please send yours up. They dont have to be related to adjusjust about. Here we go. My name is melissa, welcome to the Commonwealth Club hosting of scott adams. In his new book and he dives into the epidemic of mental shortcuts that he believes is making us proud to be leaving and bad ideas. Available for people stereotyping and avoiding self reflection when relationships end. We are excited to have him with us tonight to discuss his new book and whatever else you would like to ask him he said nothing is offlimits. Please welcome scott adams. [applause] it is a word that i invented because i noticed when i was on twitter the debate and every once in a while somebody would make a good comment and i would think i dont agree with that, but its w
A major part of the population. And sticking with facebook and labor for many here in the liberal white paper there were references to their blog chain promoting what theyre calling an open identity standard essentially the idea behind indemnity in this regard is making a way for users to be able to have a fully verifiable digital version of identification that would work throughout the internet sort of walk us through how this technology would work and the specific benefits of this kind of identity. One of the key problems with this emergence and as we go over to doing more and more online and having more of our lives online has been this. Disconnect essentially between our physical lives our physical identity and being able to prove you know flawlessly that this is the same individual and in all. Line capacity and this just hasnt been done to an adequate way and so this is a you know a very exciting part of what facebook is trying to do and were very big fans of open identity systems
Absolutely and thats a great question and one of the Key Properties of block change is the ability to move funds anywhere around the world any time without an intermediary without a bank and around the world theres 1700000000 banks individuals around the world and so with the ability to use blog chain youre actually able to help bank and provide Banking Services to these individuals for savings spending bore away and insurance and facebook came out and said libra is going to help to bank the unbanked in under banks populations and this just doesnt seem to be the case if you need a bank account you need an identity i mean this is cutting you know one in 3 adults all around the world and this is one of the problems related to also the k y c n. N. Which you know make facebook have this as a requirement and as of now that just seems to be creating issues and leaving a major part of the population. And sticking with facebook and labor for a minute here in the labor white paper there were re
Afforded by block technologies use cases can range from improving the supply chain helping Small Businesses in agriculture cleaning up the costly and efficient cost for remittances and even Land Registry those are just a few uses and there are still new cases being developed every day so lets take a look at taipei taiwan to dive a little deeper into all of these fascinating and essential uses of technology were now joined by ali b. G. Managing partner with the block chain Founders Fund and consultant to the United Nations so ali 1st off lets touch on relief for the unbanked facebook has made news recently with their announcement of libra their new crypto currency but one of the big holes in the project is the fact that you will need a bank account to actually get involved in the crypto currency what do you make of that issue with libra and why is the banking the unbanked such a crucial topic in the world of blocking. Absolutely and thats a great question and one of the Key Properties o