sunshiney's comments

I'm rural and locals hate them, wish they were installed in the places where the demand is being created by the density of population: cities. There is considerable ostracization of any farmer who opts in.

Low tolerance for visual blight? We agree. We consider them a blight also, particularly for people who choose natural sights over the blight of concrete structures. Noise? Same thing. We hate the noise of any traffic and yet that noise is Ok here? The complaints are significant can't Labor is not a good argument. It's expensive here also. Specialty techs are needed and the drive time charges alone are exhorbitant.

These could be placed instead on the top of city buildings. It's been done already. You wouldn't hear the noise over the traffic or neighbors that live inches from you. No birds would be injured or migratory paths interrupted. Wildlife oaths would not be displaced. The visual is not an issue. You already have visual blight in a city.

And city dwellers created the huge need.

Who is preventing exploration of installing these on the tops of buildings in the very cities that create the power need?

The majority of site ads are affiliate ads. They are being blocked. The lower income folks have been hurt tremendously already. Analytics is suffering from blocks. Math runs business decisions re spending. No math equals bad decisions. Banner ads? Ineffective but why buy when good numbers are not available. The future online belongs to big tech and gorilla business as these good intentioned decisions kill the middle and lower class online. Me? Been running biz online for nearly 3 decades. The blood online is deep and getting bigger.

I run online biz and have since 1993. Today, I am watching the death of small biz online, the under-employed no longer able to increase income from online biz builds, the death of affiliate income, the spike of subscription paywalls, the growth of big tech as a result, the growth of sites as info brochures for retail brick mortar, decrease in content,all melded with large increases in labor costs, labor benefit bookkeeping and tax expenses,taxes due to nearly 2000 US jurisdictions. In time, you will have few sources for content online and it will be concentrated in gorillas, direct mail will and is increasing, retail will be big guys only, and the biggest losers will be the small guys. But blocks won't be needed then as big guys will deploy the Cobra phenomena as they can afford it. Loser: the average guy. Winner: the big guys. Ah well. More poor people. Ah well.

agree with you but we have so much education to do of normal, every day people. It's too techy for too many.. so they don't see what you and I are seeing.

Perhaps but cash is disgusting. Have you read how 90 percent of cash is covered with cocaine? Not to mention all the creepy crawlies on it... ewww...

I've been trading it since last suummer and doing just fine, thank you. But years and years and years of trading under my so-called belt. I'm not alone, though. There is a way to trade a bear market...safely... The folks that got hurt were holders and those who went nuts in Dec. and thought "green" meant "buy."

Go look at https://www.canwork.io/

Exactly. And a drop in hash power and difficulty, which have a lag between one and the other, enables miners with more expensive operations to enter. Of course, they suffer when the reverse happens..but such is life.

Just the normal agreed-upon fork every 6 months but this time things heated up with the hashing war, which featured antminer pulled all the miners in his pool from BTC into BCH, causing downward price pressure.

I feel similarly about both CW and RV. This hash war may have been a nice moment of drama diversion but from a professional point of view, it's an awful game to bring to the crypto world and for noobs who have just begun watching.

Bitcoin core derives a good deal of value from being the entry to exchanging for coins/tokens to buy into an ICO, which is now more restrained due to last week's SEC actions. While there are stinky ICO-funded projects, there are also valid projects that are growing. I have always seen it as more of a front door, given that it's the primary pair across exchanges and given tx costs. LTC was, for long, promo'd as the coin that would be used for day-to-day purchases. Unfortunately traditional fiat users do not think in that way as this is not the usual use of something fiat.

While I am a meat/fish-eater, I have not eaten store- purchased meat in decades and I will never eat lab-produced food. What a great way for innovative evil people to kill millions. Be careful what you wish for...very careful

True on paper but not in reality.

But the blochain can, eh? (IRS)

Do you own a business? Or..have you? Are you familiar with the advantages for legal and ethical businesses from blockchain?

If you study how Leapforce interacts with or what they require of their subcontractors and compare to the Labor & Industry definition of business owner/independent contractor, you would see that they are abusing the definition. Leapforce subcontractors are employees.

As I read the responses to this article, I thought of the pontification upon science-based reasons and, what I experience as simply reality. My life experience has taught me that as we age, family gains greater dominance as the source of social connection and support than friends -- and a lack of immediate and/or extended family results in greater and greater lonliness as the years pass. Family can range from one person -- a spouse or significant other -- to a large family including siblings, children, cousins. One's tribe becomes more important. Friends grow busy with their tribe and those outside the tribe become "my dear friends" but not your close, daily bud.

I have seen this change occur over the decades and wish I had known when I was younger. I may have made different choices that would have changed my life today.

Today I work from a home office, live alone, have no family within 2000 miles and my home is in country. I love business, tech and the outdoors. I am also at that everything is work stage in a start up. I am told that I am confident, smart and independent.

What others do not know is that I am so deeply aware of my aloneness that I do crazy tests to determine if I die here how long will it take for someone to wonder about me and find me -- and more important..find and feed the two cats that live with me?

Right now, it is day 36. In that time not one person has contacted me as a friend. I am overwhelmed with strangers -- in my spam folder, in my twitter box, in posts on Facebook

My husband died recently..in his 50s. That same year, my inlaws, my parents and my sister passed away. My 20'ish son did what sons do...graduate from college and move to a beach area far, far away and start his life.

Clubs? Civic groups? A community center? None of those are here.

When I am actively calling wives, I can get companionship. But the refrain I hear over and over is about family or work obligations. There are women who are out hunting for a male partner. Note.. they are not looking for a female best friend. I am not looking for a new spouse.

So I wonder how long I can live like this as it is so very quiet and deeply sad in an odd way. I never anticipated that my crazy busy and people-filled life would evolve to this stage. I do not recommend it.

The term freelancer does refer to a business owner, generally a sole proprietorship who does not have employees. As someone who has been in business for 30 years, the difference I keep seeing now is that many contemporary freelancers do not view thwnselves as ownwrs of a business. I have been noticing the uptick in that perception for the past 4 or 5 years. The one positive ourcome imho is that more people now understand the risk,challenges and struggle associated with running a business. But that will only truly happen when the roses realize they are roses and begin to think like one. Much of the conflict I see today is because we have people who think like employees working as sole proprietors.

I am a woman and independent who would not be oppressed by a woman president. I also have a master's degree. I would never vote Hillary. Never...