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Wealth Chat

A Singapore banking app that targets filthy rich clients and allows them to interact with their “relationship managers” on WeChat and WhatsApp.

A number of “financial fugitives” with their monies in Singapore banks have mixed feelings about Wealth Chat, because they’re afraid that any archived confidential banking information might be handed over or leaked out to the authorities, which could use it against them in future.

by MathPlus September 12, 2018

Trump Anonymous

The suspected Judas in President Trump’s administration, who stabbed his boss in the back, by writing a treasonous letter to the newspaper to expose his irrational and amoral behaviors, and to reveal why his staff deliberately withheld information from him.

Could Trump anonymous betrayer-writer ever be identified, assuming that he or she is not a New York Times staff writer who ghostwrote the op-ed to discredit the President?

by MathPlus September 9, 2018

Let Go and Let God

When you realize that your effort or past, or what people think or say about your shortcomings, inadequacies, or failures, doesn’t determine your future, but God does, because He is in control of the universe and of your life.

Until you let go and let God Be in charge of your life, it’s hard for you to see His blessings flow through your life—God is concerned about what concerns you, because He wants you to experience his power, not just knowing about Him and His goodness.

by MathPlus September 8, 2018

Everyone is a fake

Not just Donald Trump, but practically everyone who has ever achieved some degree of worldly success, is a charlatan—people improvise as they go along, hoping that luck and success would conspire to be on their side until they become somebody blessed with many friends (and fiends and foes).

The biographies of many successful people reveal that when faced with hit-and-hope situations, they can’t help but to bluff or fake their way through until they make it—an oft-unspoken common denominator among many rich and famous people is that everyone is a fake at some point, when they’re still a nobody.

by MathPlus September 5, 2018

Data Discrimination

The use of big data to discriminate against those who don’t have a “good credit score” in public—for example, an insurance company might charge someone a higher premium because they live in a crime-infested area, or in a region with a high percentage of loan defaulters or smokers.

Big data and social media companies, which collect data on people’s profiles and purchasing behaviors and credit-worthiness, are unethically selling these sensitive information to banks and insurance companies, which in turn apply data discrimination against potential clients.

by MathPlus September 5, 2018

Alibaba Graduate

A recipient of the postgraduate computer science scholarship, offered by the Chinese tech Alibaba, which is notorious for condoning fake and pirated goods on its e-commerce site—one who could be recruited as a “rogue hacker” or cyber terrorist for the Chinese Communist Party.

As a recent Alibaba graduate from Singapore, Jack couldn’t turn down the million-dollar job offer to work for one of Alibaba’s security departments, where he’s unspokenly expected to hack foreign IT systems to steal intelligence information for China’s military.

by MathPlus September 4, 2018

Spiritual Wind

What Christians experience when they are supernaturally visited by the Holy Spirit—a common outward sign is they start to speak in tongues or laugh uncontrollably.

Unlike a strong wind that both believers and unbelievers can feel or hear outdoors, the spiritual wind is usually experienced only by Christians indoors, be it in a church congregation or in a home fellowship of a few believers.

by MathPlus August 12, 2018