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My Inception No-Prize
Posted by Matthew Johnson Published in Flicks, Writering
(Spoilers follow, I guess)
I finally got a chance to see Inception a couple of days ago and while I enjoyed it, there were a few things that puzzled me. Not that the movie was confusing — honestly, one of its bigger flaws was that it often seemed to feel the need to spell things out for the slower kids — but for a generally well-written movie it had some odd flaws. Or were they flaws? Well, probably, but just for fun let's use the No-Prize method and see if we can't find in them hints of a deeper, better story underneath the obvious one.
See, a lot of people think that the ending means the whole movie was a dream, but that's not likely. To begin with, "it was all a dream" is no less of a cop-out just because your movie is about dreams, and if there's room for multiple interpretations you might as well pick the one that doesn't suck. More importantly, though, the "real world" sequences include scenes that Cobb, the Leonardo DiCaprio character, isn't in. When was the last time you had a dream you weren't in?
Interestingly, the scenes without him all feature Ellen Page, whose character is oddly underdeveloped and inconsistent considering how prominent she is. She's set up heavily (Cobb remarks on how she's a natural at manipulating dreams), has a heavily symbolic name (Ariadne) and gets a number of scenes without payoffs (for example the scene where she makes her totem, the chess piece.) But in the actual action of the movie she's not very important, being mostly a vehicle for exposition — the "new guy" that other characters can explain things to, as well as the person who ferrets out Cobb's backstory. There's nothing wrong with that, except that there's another character who plays a similar role — Saito, the one played by Ken Watanabe — and at first glance, at least, the movie would be stronger if he had the role to himself: he has an emotional investment in learning the rules of the game and understanding the plan (since he wants it to succeed) and there's tension added if he learns about Cobb's issues with his wife (since he has the power to reunite Cobb with his children), while Ariadne is both uninvested and undermotivated. In fact, her motivation changes several times throughout the movie: at first it's just professional interest, then a desire to protect the other team members, and then finally (for no clear reason) she's determined to complete the mission even at the risk of her and Cobb's lives.
So here's my attempt at a No-Prize: none of these things are mistakes. The whole movie that we see is a dream, but Cobb isn't the only real person in it: Ariadne is there too (and maybe Joseph Gordon-Levitt, what the hell.) She has inserted herself into Cobb's dream because he is still stuck in limbo from his experience with his wife — when he experienced her "dying" that was her waking up, but he's still asleep. The mission is actually to rescue him; like the fake mission explained to Cillian Murphy in the hotel room, it's a fiction designed to make him rescue himself. That's why she plays coy at first — the trick of getting the dreamer to do the work for you — then draws out his emotional issues, and in the end is determined to complete the mission at all cost. It also explains her name: Ariadne, after all, was the one who got Theseus out of the labyrinth.
But why was she so determined? Because Cobb has been dreaming longer than he realizes — ten years or more — which explains another motif with no apparent payoff, the hiding of his children's faces throughout the movie. Ariadne is his daughter.
Dan Lokhorst said on July 29th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
I like that theory. I thought that he was still in a dream at the end because neither of his kids had aged since he last saw them (or did something go completely over my head? That's a distinct possibility.)
Gorillamist said on July 29th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
It was all just a dream.
Like when Cobb says: "We create the world of a dream. We bring a subject into that dream and they fill it with their secrets."
Nolan created the world of the dream (the movie) and we all fill in the blanks.
*BRAAAAAAAAAM*
morejolli said on July 29th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
A compelling argument, but with one fatal flaw. Cobb's totem, the spinning top, falls in the real world.
Joanna said on July 29th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I'm glad you focus on Ariadne as more than a helper. It strikes me that hardly anyone is talking about what Mal put in her locked box in her childhood home that she needs to hide, and that makes her refuse to leave their shared world and not go back….yet it's the hinge of the entire plot. So why did Michael Caine pull a long con on Cobb? why did the male's self-integration require the death of a/the mother in the underworld? What about how his/her token/totem displaced whatever was in the safe? A little Freud, a little Jung, a little "Hero with a Thousand Faces"–but all the fuss and noise of the film functions as a distraction from the fact that the only place for female sexuality is either repressed in the underworld or dead so Leo can have the kids all to themselves.
Ariadne as his daughter works, in the the "sprung fully grown from her father's head" mode of female daughterhood.
Will "scifantasy" Frank said on July 29th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Morejolli: Except that the top was Mal's totem first, before she "died." If Mal really did just wake up, then we can assume she primed Ariadne–including with the nature of the totem.
Matthew Johnson said on July 29th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Gorillamist: as I said, the notion that it was all a dream fails to account for the scenes that don't feature Cobb. If you go for a straight interpretation of the script it makes more sense that he simply didn't escape from limbo, but that the rest of the film "happened."
Morejolli: note that I didn't say that Ariadne succeeded. In my theory (which, I should again mention, is just my projecting stuff that isn't really there onto flaws in the script) Cobb prefers the fantasy of returning to his family as children to returning to real life with the time that's passed.
Mary Warner said on July 29th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
I haven't seen the movie so I can't comment on any of that, but I have had dreams I wasn't in.
Candlejack said on July 29th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Uh, yeah, my dreams are often movies rather than participation sports. But I get you. For the movie to be anything more than a waste of time, it can't all be one guy alone in his head.
Kal said on July 29th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Holy crap…that makes total sense to me. You just helped me enjoy this movie 10 times more than I did the first time. Now I have to see it again with that backstory rattling around in my head.
Joe Mama said on July 30th, 2010 at 12:26 am
I actually just got in from seeing Inception about half an hour ago, and was glad to find this here. I'm still turning things over in my mind, what was real, what wasn't real, and the delightful ambiguity of the final shot (was the top about to fall? Or would it keep going?) is something that's going to stay with me for a long time.
The idea that there's another "job" happening that's deeper than any of the things being depicted on film . . . I like that. And I like that Nolan, while indulging his this-is-how-things-work fetish throughout the early portion of the movie, keeps opening things up, wider and wider, and directing your attention one way while he's setting something else up off in the corner somewhere. It's a great piece of filmmaking.
Snap Wilson said on July 30th, 2010 at 2:01 am
The ending is meant to be ambiguous, which means there's no real answer. Either it was reality or Cobb dreamed the whole movie, or he just never escaped from Limbo when he attempted to retrieve Saito or some combination thereof.
Here's an article, with multiple interpretations, from someone who has spent way too much about the film and liked it more than I did:
http://www.ravenfoundation.org/blogs/daniel-s-movie-reviews/inception
I won't bother with my own crackpot theories since there is no right or wrong answer. I will say that people using the "it was all a dream" theory to excuse uninteresting characters and lapses in the film's own structured logic is weak reasoning. Yes, I suppose it's thoroughly reasonable that a drab, uninteresting person would dream about other drab, uninteresting people taking place in drab, uninteresting environments (or risible Modern Warfare 2 levels, apparently). That doesn't make it good storytelling.
Dreams certainly are capable of being alternately exciting, wondrous, imaginative or terrifying things. Inception was too serious for that, and thus we're stuck with sterile concrete, glass and steel cityscapes where everyone wears a suit. The dreams of an accountant.
Which isn't to say I didn't like the film. I thought it was a collection of interesting ideas, but was it really that thought-provoking? Was there magic? Was there heart? I couldn't find any.
Thok said on July 30th, 2010 at 2:41 am
Just from what I've heard about the movie (I've not seen it yet), I've actually wondered whether the whole scenario was meant to trap Cobb and make him reveal his guilt.
I'll add that there shouldn't be any reason why somebody couldn't be persuaded to visualize their dream totem incorrectly. The easiest way to trap Cobb in a dream level is to make him dream that his top fell when it spun.
MK said on July 30th, 2010 at 2:49 am
That's a good one. The It Was A Dream theory I've been going with is that Mal really did die, but Dom hasn't been exiled, except byhis own guilt – the government doesn't think he killed her, HE thinks he killed her. So Michael Caine hired Ariadne and the rest of the team to incept the idea of letting go of his guilt.
Although I also love the idea that Mal really did wake up instead of dying, and hired the team to go in and get Dom out of limbo, because then you can try and figure out WHICH MALS ARE REAL and which ones are Dom's projection.
Christian said on July 30th, 2010 at 2:51 am
the problem is that the most dreamlike sequences – the chase with the tight passage when Leo gets Tom Hardy and his wife's suicide – are supposed to take place in the 'real world'
Rattsu said on July 30th, 2010 at 6:06 am
I haven't seen it yet, but about dreams:
I often have dreams I am not in. I tend to switch between roles, sometimes having several roles at once and sometimes being more of an omniscient narrator. I had no idea that was not a common thing!
Menamebephil said on July 30th, 2010 at 6:18 am
You see, this is an interesting enough interpretation, and like all interpretations of Inception, I don't buy it for a second.
Inception is, to me, a heist movie. I enjoy it on that level a hell of a lot. I'm not interested in the possible allegory behind any of it, I don't think it's hiding some Grand Mysterious Meta-Plot behind it. I just enjoy the film for what is presented to me, and I just like the way all the intricate pieces click together. The fact that I fairly regularly have dreams-within-dreams might help.
And I think the last scene cutting off early is a half-assed attempt at a Deckard-Was-A-Replicant level of Stupid Plot Twist. It's just an attempt to get people to argue over the internet about the Deep Hidden Meaning in this movie.
Which I guess seems to be working.
Also I have dreams I'm not in, just for the record. I have had dreams-within-dreams that I'm not in.
I still don't buy what you're saying, though.
Jonny K said on July 30th, 2010 at 8:26 am
There are about five or six different interpretations I've seen. ("He didn't wake up from the sedation in Mombassa", and "Saito is playing a Mr Charles on Cobb for the entirety" being two of the more interesting ones. The former is nicely backed up by the fact that when he wakes in Mombassa, he starts to spin the top, but drops it, and we never see what happens.) This one's a nice addition, and I quite like it.
I must add, though, that you're totally wrong to say that there's no apparent pay-off to the motif of the children's faces being hidden. That's got the biggest, most obvious pay-off possible: he explicitly says that he doesn't want to see their faces in a dream, repeatedly, and avoids Moll's attempts to make him do so, before finally seeing them in what he believes is his real-life return to America.
[Actually, that brings me to a nice theory. There's no dialogue post-Cobb's final wake-up, so we don't hear what Saito's saying. What if the entirety of the film up to the final "waking up" takes place in a dream?
They're all on the plane, for reasons that aren't clearly defined, but Cobb got lost after retreating into his dreams after the suicide of Moll. Even better: he comes across Moll who is dying in real life, then decides to put her into a dream, and join her. They dream together and grow old together, until she dies in real life, and he's lost in limbo alone. He creates a projection of Moll, who gives him the idea that she killed herself because she thought life was a dream: he performs Inception on himself. He convinces himself that Moll killed herself because of an inception he performed on her, in a case of survivor's guilt, of some kind.
The main part of the plot, as we've already seen, involves the group of people sharing a dream with Cobb helping him to get over his guilt, and face his children again. Saito's call is about something utterly unrelated, or to tell Michael Caine to bring the children to the airport.
(Actually, I'm not convinced that this interpretation requires the earliest parts to be a dream. The straightforward idea is that Cobb performed Inception on himself, not Moll, after, not before, her suicide. He convinced himself that he can't return to the States, and that he is responsible. Which is why people kept trying to get him to come back, or asking "Are you safe here?". They know it's all a delusion, but want to help him get over it. Which they do, by placing another delusion over the first one.
James W said on July 30th, 2010 at 9:19 am
This is maybe the best variation on the "Inception on Cobb" theory I've read, but the sequence where Arthur trains Ariadne is problematic. Either he's Real, in which case why are they staying "in character", or he's a projection of Cobb's subconscious, in which case EWWWW THE KISS! EWWWW SHE SMILED!
Bass said on July 30th, 2010 at 9:37 am
You're right; Ariadne and Saito should've been the same character.
equinox216 said on July 30th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Another tally for "I have dreams I'm not in." That kind make up the majority of mine, actually. I have nightmares I'm not in, too, but they're infrequent these days ('nightmares', not just 'nightmares with Sir Not Appearing In This Film').
I enjoy the thought of Ariadne as actual-daughter, but it doesn't work for me. The film's descriptions and depictions of the Dreamer's self-defense mechanisms make it only possible through a really REALLY liberal reinterpretation of events that I don't think the film itself supports. If this is Cobb's dream with outside influences instead of "in and of itself" (or, "self-contained"), then Mal does a singularly crappy job of imitating an immune system.
Personally I have no problem with the "It was all a dream" case, because I think that adds further strength to the argument that at the end of the film he's not awake, and further strength to the emotions presented in the film. It's when someone actually wakes up at the end and discovers that it was just a dream that it feels like a copout; here it presents as Cobb's own mind generating a scheme, presented to him in his own idiom, to break him free of whatever iterative layer of Limbo he believes he's in.
(My consideration of "Straight heist film" comes down to a couple of things, headed with:
By the dream-rules presented, Mal shouldn't even exist in someone else's dreams (nor should the freight train), but the place they CAN exist is in Cobb's dream. Also, if it's Cobb's dreamstate all along, that makes Michael Cain's comment towards the end of his introductory scene ("Come back to reality") that much more poignant. That doesn't differentiate between 'external' and 'internal' for 'heist to rescue Cobb', though.)
This construction makes Ariadne (as, possibly, Cobb's own interpretation of his daughter, aged up to adult relevance in the same way Robin Williams' kids were in the afterlife in "What Dreams May Come") the seed his mind has planted to allow him to finally shrug off the memory of Mal. One aspect (Cain) introduces her, with Cobb playing both BY the rules he's set up for himself of no longer being an Architect because of Mal, but playing WITH the rules by creating a clean identity which can work in opposition to Mal. Mal comes to clock her adversary in the initial Architecture sequence with Ariadne (who notably doesn't seem to use any places for rough building framework material that she knows and Cobb DOESN'T, but that could stand further inspection for accuracy), but Ariadne later adapts her approach so that they never so much as come in further contact with one another until the very end.
If Mal is reacting defensively, using the same set of information/knowledge as Cobb, why go after Fischer, of all people, in Ice Station Zeta? That could be No-Prize'd just as readily, but again, I don't think the actual details of the film would support it. If Ariadne was an outsider, she'd be the prime target; if Ariadne was a discrete partition of Cobb's consciousness, however, then in the allegory of the heist both Cobb and Mal would think that stopping the heist itself would be self-destruction. Ariadne, on the other hand, would have the goal of getting Cobb to confront/purge Mal, not in order to actually get home, but to figuratively 'escape' this self-punishing construction that Cobb has created for himself.
I know a lot of what I'm bringing up can be used for both 'Ariadne as external' and 'Ariadne as internal'; I just think that in the absence of solid evidence of external interference, the 'Jungian-archetypes safari through Dante's Divine Comedy' interpretation holds together better.
Good god, I do go on.
Tenken347 said on July 30th, 2010 at 11:24 am
I also don't find alternate explanations for the movie convincing, mainly for a reason Matt gave in the original post. Nolan does indulge in some hand-holding for the audience, because it's a potentially confusing story and he doesn't want anyone to get lost. That being the case, I can't believe he would intentionally hide any narrative elements, or make people try to figure out things that were never even cleanly hinted at. That's why I think everyone in this movie really is who they say they are. In fact, given the ending of the film, I think people are really missing the point when they try to find alternate explanations. We never see if Cobb's top falls over. Why? Because Cobb himself has stopped looking at it. Cobb doesn't care any more if this is a dream or not. The whole point of the film is that anything is as real as you believe it is – there's no layer of reality that has a more privileged status than any other. That was Mal's problem – she got hung up on the idea that there was a more real existence than the one she was living, and couldn't let go of that idea. Cobb went home. Whether he went home for "real" or not doesn't make any difference to him, not should it to us.
Sorry, should be "nor should it to us."
magnuskn said on July 30th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Man, was I the only one who saw that the top at end was stopping to spin? Although that doesn't explain the very young children…
Not sure if my first comment was eaten by Internet gremlins or needs approval, but it doesn't show up. Anyway, once again: Am I the only one who saw that the top was stopping to spin? I tried to look really closely at the moment and that was what seemed to be happening.
Menamebephil said on July 30th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
@Magnuskin- Yes, the top was starting to fall. The fact that the film cut out before it fell I consider a weak attempt to generate Pretentious MetaPlot.
Candlejack said on July 30th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Yeah, it was starting to bobble. But on the other hand, it started spinning by going in circles, and then straightened up and spun in one place. Tops don't do that. Is that supposed to be a clue? Or did Nolan think nobody would notice?
bryan said on July 30th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
"When was the last time you had a dream you weren't in?"
I'm not sure when the last time was but I've certainly had lots of them.
magnuskn said on July 30th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
@Candlejack: Yeah, but wasn't it doing the "spinning in place" throughout the whole movie? Okay, going with the "all a dream" theory, that'd be another metaphor. Meh, I am going with the "straight" ending, I guess.
Kyle said on July 30th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
OK, so it seems I may be in the minority here, but I don't have dreams that I'm not in. At least not that I'm aware of (of course, if I'm not there, would I even know?).
So how exactly does that work? By not being in the dream, is it like watching a movie, i.e. you see everything happening but aren't a participant? Or is there some deeper "dream logic" that comes in to play that makes it more like something you experience yet don't experience, all at the same time. And does Heisenberg enter into it, whereby observing your dream, even as a non-participant, alters what happens?
Basically, I'm just curious about the experience.
equinox216 said on July 30th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
My dreams in which I'm absent have been anything from 'unseen observer but still some sort of me' to 'straight-up cinematic style uninvolvement of me', Kyle. Though that difference comes from subject matter (the former is 'stuff that relates to my life' and the latter isn't); mostly it's just that, of the entities and objects that actually interact with each other in the dream, I'm not one of them.
Blake said on July 30th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
This is just me, but I very often have dreams where I cease to be the lead. Especially if I pick up a book or watch a movie, at which point my dream starts to follow those characters and events.
Menamebephil said on July 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
For me, the dreams in which 'I' am not present usually take the form of the 'myself as unseen observer' variety, as though I am just hovering over someone else's shoulder like some kind of incorporeal parrot.
And dreams-within-dreams are almost impossible to remember, but I could /completely/ relate to the whole perceive-time-faster-one-layer-down thing. I've had dreams that seemed to last all day, then I'll wake up and I'll be all disconcerted and it'll be mid-afternoon or something and I'll go through another hour or so of dream and /then/ I'll wake up.
It's really weird.
BAM said on July 30th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
When you talk about Cobb's experience of Mal "dying," you are referring to the hotel suicide right? If so, what about the train track co-suicide scene? Is that supposed to be a projection and a false escape from his dream prison? I thought it was pretty clear that the train scene was how they killed themselves out of limbo into reality.
Alternate plot meanings are fun to think about, but I agree with 'Menamebephil,' it is most successful on its primary level. It should be considered a great piece of screenplay writing, because it allows the viewer some freedom to interpret, like a lot of other great films and novels allow.
Ekebolou said on July 30th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Don't know how useful it'll be, but I would like to back Tenken347's post- that the ending isn't actually an attempt to insert ambiguity into the whole of the movie- with a slight addendum.
It is indeed a heist movie, but it is a heist movie of style we don't see terribly often. We are at every point following the thieves, participating in the deceptions and in the motivations to the point where the only mystery is the setting (which, for all the 'but it's not dreamy enough' elements, it's good to remember that these were designed by conscious waking people with a goal- the whole point of the architect is to establish a controlled setting, and one in which the move from dream to reality is ambiguous in order to better confuse the 'mark' they seek to bamboozle. Presumably heading straight into acid-trip territory would be counter-productive). Everything is explained, to the point of tedium for some viewers, and every attempt is made to keep the viewers in step with the action. It'd be a drastic switch in the character of the film if that last scene was indeed meant to throw the whole of the events of the movie into a sort of solipsistic doubt (and it'd be cheap storytelling).
There is an element to choosing one's reality that goes on, as Tenken347 mentions, but if that's all there is to it, then there's not point in /not/ choosing to stay with Mal's projection in limbo (other than the fact that she's not as cool as the real Mal, as per Dom's little speech). There is a reality which has supremacy, and Dom repeatedly tries to make the point that it is all that matters to him: the reality of his children. In one scene, he argues with Mal that regardless of his belief in the 'reality' of this or that existence or his wants, his children exist in a reality where they are waiting for their father to come home, and that is what he must focus on. They are more important than either his psychological issues (represented by the fact that anywhere his subconscious is, Mal's projection is as well), or whether he likes what he's doing (as he says to Michael Caine, whose name I cannot even attempt to remember in the movie). He not only points this out to Mal, but to Arthur, to Ariadne (repeatedly- she flees to the rickety elevator upon yet another reprise of this theme, even as Dom says 'all you need to know about me is…') and to anyone who holds still for long enough.
That's not really a significant deviation from Tenken347's post, but I thought a viewpoint worth mentioning, because it speaks well of the originality and intent of the movie that there is an interpretation of the events in which the protagonist is a hero not for achieving his own goals or conquering his own demons, or pulling off a great heist and getting the wonderful prizes at the end, but because he's able to hold on to what is important to him, and see it through, not only resolving his issues, but doing good for the rest of his team and taking on considerable personal risk to do the right thing. The big celebration, the payoff, is, in fact, seeing his kids turn around, and that's all it needs to be. A heist movie without a thief protagonist, after the glittering prize.
That leaves my problem with the movie as the fact that while Leonardo diCaprio does a wonderful job, and is a great actor, and I like his character, he's just a little bit hard to believe as a doting father who wants to get back to his kids. Perhaps a little more fleshing out of some of Ariadne, or Saito (although I also think Saito's pretty clear) would've helped, but when was there time? Arthur and Eames are well-rounded characters with really only a handful of lines about their own motivations, though, so… *shrug*
Anyway. did I win longest post?
gustopher said on July 30th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
This movie would have been better had Cobb decided that he wasn't living in the real world at the end, and then killed his children and then himself.
Mark Temporis said on July 30th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Nearly all my dreams don't involve me, at least the ones I remember. I try to have much more interesting people in them; a recent one was a spy flick starring Tricia Helfer and Danny de Vito.
Foop said on July 30th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
I agree with msot of this.
One thing I want to mention though, is that I'm not always in all of my dreams. Sometimes I just have settings and I am a secondary character, some times a bunch of shit happens and I have no part of it whatsoever, and somewhat often i am someone else (its still first person, I mean, but it's not me per se).
Candlejack said on July 31st, 2010 at 1:03 am
@magnuskn –Tops do spin in one place if they're spun upright. If you're in a hurry, it's easy to impart a tilt, and then they spin in circles until they fall. They just don't right themselves. So is it a simple mistake? Were we not supposed to notice it righted itself, because it's not important? Or is it supposed to be some kind of signal?
The thing about the totems is, they should only let you know if you're in somebody else's construct–because the person laying down the rules in that case doesn't know the specific properties of your totem. But you obviously do know the details of your own totem, so if you're building the dream yourself…well, then, the totem should basically act as you think it ought to.
So, if the behavior of the top was supposed to be a clue, I imagine it would be something like this: Cobb comes home and everything looks just as it did in his memory-constructs. He panics and gives the top a wild spin. He sees the kids–and they also are exactly as they were in his dreams. The top, as an indication of his own disbelief, rights itself and prepares to spin indefinitely. But then Cobb goes out to his children and subconsciously decides, fuck it, this is real, this is what I need. For me, this is real enough. The top bobbles…and probably falls. Because he wants it to.
magnuskn said on July 31st, 2010 at 2:31 am
@Candlejack: I see… Hm. Well, I'll see the movie again in two weeks with a friend, I guess I'll pay even *more* attention to that moment. :p
Doesn't that all mean, as per the premise introduced when the group got into the dream, that the others are still trapped in the first layer of the dream, too? Or worse, drowned in the van and are all in limbo?
Steve said on July 31st, 2010 at 4:02 am
Just saw it, and enjoyed the hell out of it. To me, the ending isn't all the important; in this case the ride was more enjoyable than the destination.
I kept wondering if Ariadne and Cobb awoke from the dreamdive right before the plane; I figured they were going to use that to pull off that there was yet another layer, and that the job was to wake Cobb up. The idea of her as the older daughter is interesting and leaves me asking this: at the beginning of the film; when Cobb was on the phone with his kids, wasn't there an older girl's voice that seemed a lot older than the daughter they pictured?
k987 said on October 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 am
During the whole movie i thought cobb was in a hospital, and the whole movie was like a struggle to wakeup or not from his coma.

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Have Static Languages Won?
A few days ago, Elben Shira caught the attention of the programming blogosphere with his post entitled The End of Dynamic Languages. The key point from this post is in the following statement:
This is my bet: the age of dynamic languages is over. There will be no new successful ones.
Like him, I've noticed that despite the fact that there have been an enormous number of new programming languages coming out recently, the overwhelming majority of them are statically typed. Elben and others make the argument that this is because static languages are better equipped to deal with larger projects, they have better tooling, and programmers prefer them.
I'm fairly invested in dynamic languages. I happen to be completing a PhD thesis on techniques for optimizing dynamic languages for performance (JavaScript in particular). I've also been slowly working, in my spare time, on a dynamic language of my own. I like dynamic languages, but I think it's important, as a scientist and as a human being, not to stupidly fall into the trap of confirmation bias. I'm not going to vehemently defend dynamic languages, or claim that those who don't appreciate them are unknowing fools. Instead, I'll be honest and say that Elben's post, and the significant amount of agreement he found in online communities made me pause and question myself. Are static languages inherently superior? Are they really winning?
That there are less dynamic programming languages coming out is an undeniable fact. I've written code in statically typed languages such as C, C++, D and OCaml, and I agree that their type systems help catch certain classes of bugs more easily and rapidly. When writing code in JavaScript, you can run into nasty surprises. Latent, trivial bugs that remain hidden in your code, sometimes for months, until some specific input causes them to manifest themselves.
The problem here though, is that JavaScript is a badly designed programming language. The JS origin story is that Brendan Eich originally designed the language in just two weeks. As such, it has many glaring flaws. If you compare Haskell, a language that came out of type theoretic circles and was carefully crafted by a large research community and extensively studied, to JS, a language designed in two weeks, you find that one looks like a NASA spacecraft and the other looks like a pile of fireworks on the 4th of July in Alabama.
Dynamic languages are at a disadvantage. Most of the mainstream ones out there today were designed by amateurs, people with no formal CS background, or no adequate background in compiler construction. They were designed with no regard for performance, and an impractical mash of features that often poorly work together. Most of the dynamic languages you know are simply poorly crafted. This has resulted in some backlash. I think it's pretty clear that there's some amount of prejudice when it comes to dynamic languages.
In universities, computer science professors generally want little to do with dynamic languages. Compiler design courses are focused on statically typed and compiled languages. Type theoretic courses will teach you about Hindley-Milner type inference, but will leave you ill-equipped to understand dynamic typing. Students coming out of your average university compiler and PLT classes have no idea about the challenges involved in creating a JIT compiler, and know little about dynamic typing. It's no big surprise that these students would go on to create statically typed programming languages.
There might be another factor at play here. Dynamic languages such as PHP, JS, Python and Ruby, in addition to being relatively poorly designed, are the languages that powered the explosion of the web. Nowadays, much (most?) of the programming happening in the world is web development. Much of this work is done by people with no formal CS background. The result is that you have millions of people with less formal education writing code in less well designed languages. JS, Python, PHP and Ruby, and by extension all dynamic languages, are seen by many academics as the programming languages of the riffraff, the unwashed masses, or maybe simply programming languages for relatively ignorant beginners.
Have static languages won? It seems to me that what people really like about static languages is IDE support for things like simple refactorings and autocompletion. Program analysis that can provide some guarantees, find certain classes of bugs without having to run programs with every possible combination of inputs. It's perfectly legitimate for programmers to want these things. They help alleviate the cognitive burden of working with large (and small) codebases. But, these advantages aren't inherently advantages of statically typed programming languages. I would argue that Smalltalk had (has) some amazingly powerful tools that go way beyond what the Eclipse IDE could ever give you.
I believe dynamic languages are here to stay. They can be very nimble, in ways that statically typed languages might never be able to match. We're at a point in time where static typing dominates mainstream thought in the programming world, but that doesn't mean dynamic languages are dead. So long as dynamic languages do offer advantages, either in terms of expressiveness or ease of learning, they will still be around. You should remember that, in the end, there is no war between static and dynamic languages. There are only tools and tradeoffs.
I will conclude by saying that in my view, programming languages are constantly evolving and influencing each other in what seems like an organic process. Features that are viewed as good ideas tend to spread from one language to many others. Think about closures, for instance. The functional crowd has been in love with closures since the days of LISP, and now, almost all mainstream programming language have closures. Going back to Elben Shira's post, he states:
We will see a flourishing of languages that feel like you're writing in a Clojure, but typed. Included will be a suite of powerful tools that we've never seen before, tools so convincing that only ascetics will ignore.
I've written, back in 2012, about my belief that static and dynamic typing can essentially be combined. You can have statically compiled languages that use type inference to realize what is effectively dynamic typing. That is, the compiler inserts union types where appropriate, and does so automatically. The Crystal programming language is a realization of this idea. This isn't static languages winning a war over dynamic languages though. It's the influence of dynamic languages bleeding into static languages. The Crystal language developers are entirely honest about the fact that this language is based on Ruby. Their aim is to build a language which captures much of the flexibility of Ruby's dynamic typing and also provides you with static guarantees.
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Brian permalink
At the moment the use of statically type language is certainly better. Although to be honest I don't acknowledge any difference other than how easy and reliable a language is. JavaScript is one of those language that just keeps getting worse with every 'patch' made to it, but its here to stay, static or dynamic is just horrible!
Perhaps there are just too many languages out there and there is very little that can be done in one that can't be done in another – so why bother?
Perhaps languages are like art – its a matter of opinion, but we do know when something really sucks!
ctstover permalink
fyi, many a space craft do come from Alabama, which btw some in Montreal may be aware was also once part of New France.
SlavD permalink
Good post. Just wanted to say that .net had type inference for few years now and it's making great addition to C# – you can write some really neat looking code with all the latest features. Also I think the work they've been doing on TypeScrpit is quite interesting…
Ayrat permalink
what is "relatively poorly designed" in python?
do you understand that python originally came as the better scripting language replacement,
but now is used in other contexts (building large programs)?
.. and slightly emotional comment:)
"if Haskell/Smalltalk/etc. are so wonderfully designed by CS grads and phds — why are they not wonderfully popular?"
Haskell/Smalltalk/etc are not more popular, in my opinion, because they aren't as practical as languages like Python. For a language to succeed, it needs a healthy dose of pragmatism.
louisch permalink
It's not about the IDE tools, it's that static languages have compile time errors with type mistakes, while dynamic languages have runtime errors.
Or perhaps said differently – Static language errors upset the software engineer, dynamic languages wait to annoy the end users!
Mike S. permalink
I work in Java. I know the type system in Java isn't as flexible or full featured as the one in Scala, Kotlin, Haskell, etc… but it does use static types.
Nevertheless, we have thousands of unit tests and thousands of system tests that have to run, and they routinely do catch errors that the compiler missed. We still occasionally get production crashes on some product features.
In Java, at least, static types are a help but not a silver bullet.
That's to be expected. At the end of the day, unless your static type system is Turing-complete, it's limited in what it can express about your program. It's a large net that filters out the more obvious bugs, but there's no substitute for real testing.
I had some weird issues with comment placement, hopefully this response is placed in the correct location.
I agree with you. That's why I was responding to Brian and louisch – the idea that a static type system offers great insulation from runtime errors is an exaggeration. It mitigates some risks, not all.
Andrew Nambudripad permalink
This is something that I've been pondering about for ages. Type annotations/gradually typing seems to be a comfortable medium (see: Typed Racket and the heavily influenced core.typed in clojure). Especially when you're exploring the problem domain and are still basically figuring "writing the type signature"[1], you want that ability to take a vector of BigInts and then to swap in some data imported in a .csv. Once you solidify your solution, annotating it with types gives you the type safety you need. Strongly/statically typed languages always 'feel' safer to me, and I'd rather have my plane running on Ada verified by SparkPRO than some Node.js stuff ;).
RE: Smalltalk. Interesting you mention that. How do you feel about Strongtalk? I argue that the dynamic components of Smalltalk (the language) aren't want make it such a pleasure, but rather the pleasure is derived from the inherent construction of Smalltalk (the environment – e.g. the debugging experience – which isn't too much of a factor of its dynamic nature, but rather it's ability to prevent a stack-unwind (or so it seems, I don't know the internal functionality that enables the recover functionality (quite ironic as Smalltalk affords the ability to look into such things))).
[1](in the Haskell sense of "once you've written the signature, the code writes itself")
mounlr permalink
Language types carry an ideology with them most of the time.
A static language is most of the time minimal, compiled, doesn't load any kind of add-ons per default, so no surprise it's faster most of the time.
In theory dynamic is simply more work for the CPU so it will never won over static, so what's matter is to optimize it to the point that the slow overcome the advantages dynamic offer (which IMO already happened).
About the web, the web just don't care, most of its slowness is libraries/frameworks…
tyrellthor permalink
Please, spare us of the academic elitist moaning. You said it correctly – most of the Web is written in dynamic languages by non-CS grads. Maybe because you don't need to be a CS grad to build a good consumer product. We need CS to build tools – interpreters, VMs, frameworks that enable the higher level abstraction so people can focus on the rapid development and business value (Facebook, Uber, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Groupon, Airbnb, Gmail, github… Any of those built in static languages by CS purists?). Keep the academic moaning in the lab where it belongs, let people build the Web with Node, Ruby, Python and php.
Did you not read the post? For my PhD, I built an optimizing JIT compiler for JavaScript. I specialize in compiler design for dynamic languages.
Ron Cllinson permalink
Facebook are using Ocaml in tooling to fix issues they have with PHP and Javascript (Flow and Hack), and that is only what is public knowledge and a fair chunk of Twitter was rewritten in Scala
But I think an important point is that Facebook launched in PHP – and Youtube and Reddit launched in Python, Twitter launched with Ruby, Craigslist used and still uses Perl, and Drupal, Joomla, and most especially WordPress dominate CMS systems and they're written in PHP.
You have to weigh the benefit of a static type system against the benefits of rapid iteration with dynamic types. I think it's legitimate to adopt a strategy of using any dynamic language that lets you launch your product, and then switch to a statically typed, higher performance one once your features stabilize and performance becomes a bigger concern than rapid iteration.
marek krajewski (@mrkkrj) permalink
Haskell & well designed? It's an ocean of language pragmas… An this trying to impose strictness for performance where the design is lazy? I don't like such a design.
Nicola Musatti permalink
I would argue that interest in dynamic languages was sparked also by the fact that the type systems of most of the static languages available in the nineties had, and still have, gaping holes and were quite reasonably seen as not delivering on their promises.
I'm a dynamic languages fan. But I find it interesting that Common Lisp, Scheme, and Racket are old, respected dynamic languages that came out of academia but haven't been mainstream since the 1980s. Now Clojure is on the scene, and maybe it can succeed where they failed.
Professionally I use Java with a little bit of Javascript and Python here and there. On the side I've been playing with the Lisp family languages. But I'm puzzled why Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby took off in the dot-com boom and since then but those older, equally useful languages did not.
I mean no disrespect to users or fans of those other dynamic languages. I'm just a little puzzled by the trend.
zippoxer permalink
Dynamic languages aren't dead or dying. If anything, they are changing.
A side note – I know too many non-CS grads who are much greater devs than your average CS grad. But don't listen to me, I'm biased for not being a CS grad myself.
nwmcsween permalink
The issue with type inference is that understanding it becomes a burden on the developer, you now have to mentally parse the code in order to infer the type.
Kurt permalink
Some observations:
1) When I look at the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_languages_used_in_most_popular_websites
I see the following.
Front end: Java Script.
Back End: Java(Used by 7), C++(Used by 5), Python(Used by 4), rest lower.
The dynamic languages have won the front end battle. But on the back end??
2) I know a NYC startup with code written in Clojure. The dynamic typing was killing them. The chief developer gave up and rewrote the core libraries in Java.
3) The most CPU/Memory intensive app I use is Firefox. Way worse then Visual Studio. It has gotten worse and less stable over time. I attribute it to JS.
4) Multi-threading seems to be the biggest unsolved problem. I believe the next major future language will need to help solve multi-threading.
5) I see a lot of interest in Haskell.
-Kurt
You left out PHP, also used by 4.
It depends upon how you cherry-pick your statistics, though. If you look at CMS systems used on the web, e.g. http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all – of systems that have 1% marketshare or more, about 4% total come from static programming languages and the others constituting 80% marketshare use dynamic languages.
And as a developer, if you don't already work at Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, or Amazon what are the odds that you will be working at a company that builds the next technology giant? Those odds are astronomically small – so picking Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Clojure, or anything else that gets the job done would be fine because you won't ever have to deal with a billion unique visitors per month.
Firefox's major problem is that the codebase is old. The interesting question is whether their Servo project will be a CPU and memory hog when it matures – because it's a clean sheet restart at building a browser. Right now it's highly efficient, but it's not feature complete so that's not fair for comparison.
Ted Kruse permalink
In your opinion, what are some examples of well designed dynamic languages? You mentioned Crystal (static but feels dynamic). I'm just looking for some example to study so I can better understand what a good dynamic language looks like. Thanks
Scheme, Smalltalk and Self are not perfect, but they were designed with more care and internal consistency than the more popular, more recent dynamic languages. They're worth studying.
Elben Shira permalink
I agree that dynamic and static languages influence each other. Crystal is an excellent example—it seems to "fix" most of the problems we find in Ruby. I'm also thankful for Clojure's influence in immutable data structures, and Lisps in general.
But a year or so after I wrote that article, I still feel the a heavy burden in teams maintaining large untyped codebases. In our company, if you look at all the exceptions thrown in all our production apps, you notice that there's two main categories of errors. First are the DB/network/timeout errors caused by heavy load. Types won't save you here. But the second class of errors are all due to lack of types: calling Array#each() on a string, null pointer exceptions, and so on.
Really, I should have added a caveat to my article: only well-designed typed languages should be considered. If you replace your Ruby app with a Java one, you'll run into similar type problems (NPE in prod anyone??), and worse: poor design choices by libraries, inflexible typbe system (e.g. lack of higher-kinded types), poor type inference, over-zealous OO ruining everything.
I also agree that this has something to do about how universities teach CS. Why do we spend so much time teaching people stupid Java patterns like the "singleton pattern", and how the Iterator interface works, and so on. Of course you need to know that to successfully code Java, but if that's the goal then we are doomed. I do have hope, however, that things will improve. Undergrad teaching follows industry thinking. Hence why we all teach Java. But as industry moves away from cumbersome monolith Java to nimbler systems, I hope that we wake up and realize that spending a semester on essentially Java-specific patterns is a poor waste of time.
For example, people say Haskell is too hard to learn, or not a "real world" language. Well, it *is* hard to pick up, but so was the first language you ever learned! So is stepping through the Rails source code to debug some problem, or learning how the heck Spring ever works, and so on. Oh I wish that we spend more time teaching useful, universal ideas, and less on language-specific wrangling. "Category theory" is a big bad word in most of industry. But do you know that we also sound insane when we talk about dependency injection or say the word "POJO" out loud? What if stop wasting our classroom time learning these poor patterns, and instead learn a little bit about how a Monoid or Monad applies universally to our programming? I have co-workers who cringe at these words, yet they use it everyday without knowing it. I only ask that we understand them from first-principles.
Finally, your programming language definitely affect *how* you think about the problem. In Java, you think about POJOs and mutable objects and DAOs and DIs—all the acronyms. In Clojure you think in terms of transformations of immutable data. In Scala and Haskell you think in terms of the type, and how to transform one type to another. I think there needs to be more research on this phenomenon. Specifically, most of the literature on comparing productivity in different languages is not very convincing; there are too many variables.
I imagine a study of typed vs untyped languages where the researchers provide the subjects with a controlled environment. That is, the researchers provide a new language that is simple to pick up with type inference. You then turn off the type inference for the untyped subjects to use. That seems like the minimal setup we'd need for a good study.
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Walking up the gangplank I felt nervous… I was one metre away from my
first steps aboard the Titanic. It had been a hard day, having to
leave my friends and family to start a new life. I had had a job offer
in the centre of New York City and it had been a rush to get my place
on the 'Titanic's Maiden Voyage'. I felt heaviness in my heart; not
knowing what was lying ahead of me made me feel anxious and excited.
From the outside the Titanic was a swan, gracefully gliding through
the water. Not sure of what to accept, I stepped inside to discover a
world of comfort. The bed sheets were pure cotton, unlike my worn out
linen ones back home, and the whole boat smelt of freshly picked
flowers. My ticket didn't allow me to go onto the top floor but I
managed to have a brisk walk around before being asked to return. The
interior was mainly dark oak, with huge mirrors hanging from the
ceiling to floor. Before I was sent back to my room, I took a look
through the double glass doors leading to the main dining room. What a
magnificent sight! Fine porcelain china being laid onto the huge
tables. Tiffany lamps centred on each table too. The most humungous
chandelier in the centre of the room made the light dance across the
richly coloured walls. I would have given anything to be first class
but I was lucky to even have a place aboard the ship.
Walking down the stairs to my deck I passed a piece of paper
carelessly dropped onto the floor. Out of curiosity I picked it up and
unfolded it to find a note scribbled down. I couldn't believe my eyes!
It said, 'Icebergs ahead'. This immediately rang alarms bells, what
would happen if the boat hit an iceberg and sank? I needed to talk to
someone about what I had found. Who? I didn't know anybody aboard this
ship and I hadn't even seen my roommate yet! Rushing back to my room I
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found the door already open and a mother and child were sitting at the
table opposite one of the beds.
"Hello dear, I suppose you're our roommate for the journey? This is my
daughter Elizabeth and my name is Emily. Would you like a glass of
milk?" Not waiting for an answer she reached across the table and
poured me a glass. She had a warm smile and although she looked quite
old, she did not act or dress that way.
"Hi my names Chloe. Have you chosen your bed or do I get to take first
pick?" I tried to give a smile as she passes me the glass but she
seemed a bit pushy for my likening. I don't think I will share my
findings with her. After all this is the 'unsinkable ship'.
Taking a sip of milk, I made myself at home on my bed for the few days
ahead of me. Pondering over my findings, I started to mutter to myself
and before I knew it, I had started talking aloud.
"Yes Chloe?" I heard Emily reply. I immediately looked up to realise
that Elizabeth was not in the room. So as to divert my roommate I
tactfully changed the subject.
"Where has Elizabeth gone?"
"She's gone to find some playmates. So what were you mumbling about?"
Not sure whether to tell her the truth I avoided the question and
started to unpack. To my surprise at the top of my bag there was a
bundle of money and a letter. As I neared the end tears filled my eyes
and I broke down. Was I ready for such a big move? Emily moved over to
my bed to comfort me. She reached for the letter and read it aloud.
"To my dearest daughter, I love you with all of my heart and always
will do. I know I can't make you change your mind so I will just say
that my arms are here to for you to run into if things go wrong. You
have so many opportunities ahead of you and I wish you all the luck in
the world. I hope you get a chance to do all the things I never did
because you are one in a million million and deserve the very best. I
will miss you so much. It hurts to see you go but nothing I do or say
will stop you. So instead I will just wait here until you are ready to
come back or simply just want to visit. The money is what me and your
farther saved for your future but you can spend it on what you like.
Don't forget me when you're rich and famous! Lots of love your
mother." As Emily read the last line she went to her bag and unpacked
some tissues. She passed me some and said that she would leave me to
sort myself out. I had to get through this and now I felt I had a
friend for life it would make it much easier.
The following morning I woke to the smell of cocoa. I soon realised
that I had fallen asleep before Emily and Elizabeth had come back.
With a new positive feeling about life I gave a stretch and put on my
Sitting at the window whilst eating my breakfast I got my journal out
and started to write. I had not realised how fast the boat was going,
a bit too fast actually, seen as we were flying past icebergs.
That night I decided to have a walk along the deck.it was amazing! The
amount of detail and effort put into the ship was magnificent. Walking
along I counted the lifeboats. Counting twenty in total. Surely, that
was not enough! It was supposed to be the unsinkable ship, but this
was ridiculous! Only twenty! What would happen if we sprung a leek or
hit an iceberg? Walking down the corridor I past an opened door.
"I've told you. The rudders too small for the engine. We cannot go any
faster!" as the crewmember said this he got up and slammed the door
shut. Not knowing what to think I carried on walking to my room. I was
now convinced the ship was unsafe…
As I got back, Emily and Elizabeth were having tea before bed. As I
played with my food, I decided I had to tell Emily. Waiting for the
right moment after Elizabeth had gone to sleep I decided to just say
"Emily the ship is unsafe…" I blurted out. Unable to finish what I was
saying Emily interrupted.
"How can it be? It's the unsinkable ship!"
"The rudders too small for the engine and there aren't enough
lifeboats for us all."
"Well this may be true but were doing fine at the moment aren't we?"
"But look!" showing her the note Emily sat down to rationalise with
"It could be a fake dear. Young children could have written this!" as
Emily said this I could tell that she was trying to hide her emotions.
"But it all fits!" I yelled.
"I don't need the worries Chloe! It's all in your head." snapped
Emily. As she said this, she stormed out the door. I stood their in
disbelief, how could my friend be so blind?
An hour later I woke to a bang. I ran out to find children playing
football with large blocks of ice. Realising what had happened I
rushed into my room.
Emily sat on the edge of her bed in shock. She could not look me in
the eye from earlier on. As she opened her, mouth to say what I think
was to be an apology we got rudely interrupted by cabin crew.
"Put these on" the man ordered.
"Why? W… w… what's happening?" Emily stuttered.
"The ships sinking, get onto the deck and into the lifeboat as soon as
you can," as the man went he turned around. "You didn't hear it form
me though!"
Helping Elizabeth with her jacket, we smiled shyly at each other, but
when I reached to help Emily, she pushed the jacket and me away. She
just sat there motionless.
"Emily, what are you doing? The Titanic is sinking and you wont even
save yours or your daughters life!"
"I can't. My time has nearly come anyway. Let me be." Emily had an
unusual sad tone to her voice; I was so used to her happy old self it
was as if she was being taken over.
"What about Elizabeth? Your plans for the future? You can't just give
up now!"
"You take Elizabeth. My plans do not matter to me anymore. I cant do
this" I couldn't believe she was letting her life go before her. She
was the sort of person I thought could hold everyone together in
situations like this. I was the vulnerable one who should be like
this, not her!
I could feel the boat tilting and decided there was nothing to do but
to do what she said. I hated the feeling that was in the pit of my
stomach but I would rather save one life than none. I took Elizabeth
and made a run for the deck. It was hard letting my friend go but it
had to be done.
The look on Elizabeth's face as we got onto the lifeboat and realised
that she would not see her mother again was heartbreaking. As we were
lowered down a tear slipped from my watery eyes and I held onto
Elizabeth. I didn't know how I was going to cope, let alone how
Elizabeth was going to!
In the early hours of the morning, we saw the last of the Titanic. It
was terrible; screams and cries for help were all we heard. I felt
awful. We would keep our life's whereas hundreds of people surrounding
us where dying.
The rest of the journey to America was on another boat. Every night I
heard Elizabeth whimper and cry for her mum. It was awful, how was I
meant to replace her? I knew I was going to look after Elizabeth
because I felt responsible for her mother's death.
As we touched land, the first thing I saw was the statue of liberty.
Hundreds of people where waiting for arrivals off the Titanic and many
where left crying with dismay. I knew the American Dream had been
spoilt but I was going to make it work for Elizabeth.
Looking out of our apartment window, I can see the famous sight, the
Statue of Liberty. Everytime I do I think of that dreadful night on
the Titanic, but then feel blessed that I am still here today.
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Fed Chair Powell Says Crypto Needs New Regulation Citing Risks to US Financial System
The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, says crypto requires new regulation, citing that it presents risks to the U.S. financial system and could destabilize existing financial institutions.
Fed Chair Powell Sees the Need for New Crypto Regulation
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talked about the need to establish new regulation for cryptocurrency Wednesday during a panel discussion on digital currencies organized by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Noting that new forms of digital money, including cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, will require new rules to protect consumers, the Fed chairman said:
Our existing regulatory frameworks were not built with a digital world in mind … Stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and digital finance more generally, will require changes to existing laws and regulation or even entirely new rules and frameworks.
Powell reiterated his stance that crypto ought to follow the "same activity, same regulation" principle. In October last year, he suggested regulating stablecoin issuers like banks. "Stablecoins are like money market funds. They're like bank deposits … and it's appropriate that they be regulated, same activity, same regulation," he opined.
He added that "It's highly likely that digital financial activities that are currently outside the regulatory perimeter" will be regulated, "which is necessary to level the playing field, keep the trust of users, protect consumers and all that."
The Federal Reserve chairman acknowledged that new technologies will likely make electronic payments cheaper and faster. However, he pointed out that they present risks to the U.S. financial system and could destabilize existing financial institutions.
Powell further stressed that crypto assets "have been used to facilitate illicit activity," such as money laundering. He noted:
We need to prevent this so that the innovations that do survive and do attract broad adoption are those that provide value over time.
The Fed chair also warned that Americans who buy cryptocurrencies and stablecoins "may not fully understand the extent of their potential losses, or that these investments generally lack the government protections that accompany many of the traditional financial instruments and services that they're used to."
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April 2015. CO detection in underground carpark
Azadliq square is the biggest in the country's capital, Baku, and around it are located some of the most important buildings of the city, such as the Government House and luxury hotels.
The square, formerly called Lenin Square, was created in the 60's, after construction of the Government House in 1952 and after a monument to Lenin was erected in front of it in 1955. Along with the square, the authorities built up various buildings including the "Azerbaijan" and "Absheron" hotels surrounding the square, which were later demolished and replaced by the Hilton Baku and JW Marriott Baku hotels. The statue of Lenin was removed in the beginning of the 90s and in 1991 the square became Azadliq Square (Freedom Square) after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2013 an underground car park with 4,500 parking spaces was opened under the square, and is now protected by the DURPARK CO and NO2 detection system, designed and manufactured by DURAN ELECTRONICA.
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Sarno's chequered flag awards the winners of WSK Finals: Lammers (NL – Sodi-TM KZ2), Patterson (GB – KR-IAME OK), Severiukhin (RUS – Tony Kart-Vortex OKJ) and Al Dhaheri (ARE – Parolin-TM 60mini) on top. The Wsk Super Master Series Champions celebrated on track.
Camplese (I – Tony Kart-Vortex KZ2), Patterson (GB – KR-IAME OK), Taponen (FIN – Kosmic-IAME OKJ) and Macintyre (GB – Parolin-TM 60mini) got off to a good start at the 4th round of WSK Super Master Series in Sarno (I).
Nearly 300 entered drivers in the fourth and closing round of the WSK Super Master Series at the International Circuit Napoli in Sarno (I). Qualifying practice and heats from Thursday, March 21st. Prefinals and finals on Sunday 24th.
Fathers and sons in the WSK Paddock in Sarno (I) on Father's Day. Special dads working on March 19th too, to prepare the closer of WSK Super Master Series. Formula 1 dads will be back as teenagers reliving their karting days to prepare their sons at best.
The chequered flag on WSK Super Master Series 2019 in Sarno (I) from March 21st to 24th. The fourth and final round open to categories OK, OK Junior and 60 Mini to be joined by KZ2.
The WSK Video Archive has been updated following the WSK Super Master Series round 3 in Muro Leccese. The complete footage of the Finals at the La Conca World Circuit have been uploaded for you to watch. Simply click Play to watch the OK, OK Junior and 60 Mini category races.
Switches on top of WSK Super Master Series classifications. Patterson (GB – KR-IAME OK), Eyckmans (B – PAROLIN-TM 60 MINI) and Antonelli (I – KR-IAME OKJ) leading the charts after the round in Muro Leccese (LE). KZ2 to join the closer on March 24th in Sarno with Lammers (NL – SODI-TM) on top.
Victory to Minì (I – Parolin-TM OK), Antonelli (I – KR-IAME OKJ) and Powell (JA – Energy-TM 60 Mini) in the third round of WSK Super Master Series in Muro Leccese (I). The next and closing round to take place in Sarno (I) from March 21st to 24th.
The wait is mounting for the Live streaming scheduled for Sunday, March 10th. Following the final day of the second round of the WSK Super Master Series on Sunday LIVE! March 10th is going to be quite exciting and Prefinals and Finals will be entirely available through live streaming starting from local 10:30.
All set for the final day in Muro Leccese at the third round of WSK Super Master Series: Valtanen (FIN – Kosmic-IAME OK), Lindblad (GB – Exprit-TM OKJ) and Macintyre (GB – Parolin-TM 60 Mini) on top after qualifying heats.
Aiming to the victory at the World Circuit La Conca: Patterson (GB – KR-Iame OK), Lindblad (GB – Exprit-TM OKJ) and Irfan (GB – Parolin-TM 60 Mini) to the fore today in qualifying of WSK Super Master Series. Heats will continue tomorrow. Finals on Sunday 10th.
The third round of the WSK Super Master Series 2019 is held this weekend at the track of La Conca in Muro Leccese. The drivers of categories OK, OK Junior and 60 Mini will contest their third of the 4 rounds of the series. Follow the results via de live-timing.
Stopwatches ticking at the world circuit La Conca for qualifying practice and heats ahead of the third round of WSK Super Master Series. Decisive races for OK, OK Junior and 60 Mini from Muro Leccese (I) on Sunday, March 10th.