Thanks for the thoughtful comment! I think what often bugs me about "modern science" is that the entire nature of science and scientific inquiry has changed over the past century or so. Science

Thank you for the support; I appreciate it!

Like all things, you have to be patient; it takes time. On Hive, perhaps the simplest place is to put some HBD in the "Savings" and you'll earn 10%.

Decentralization is definitely going to be a major pathway towards the future, and I image opportunities like Hive will be particularly important in Africa, although I understand anything related to

Our in-house term for it around here is "patchwork economics." You make your life function by having small income streams — none of which are large enough individually to support you — come together

It'll happen soon in the medical field. Diagnostics computers are already more accurate at predicting "most likely" medical problems off a given set of information than doctors. We are only a

Well, based on the time I've known you via Hive, you're probably one of the best prepared individuals I've come across... and your tireless involvement in so many different projects will undoubtedly serve

There are almost always two sides to everything, and people with the "big ideas" are often blind to the downsides of their creations. Sure, the promoters of automation realize people will be

I guess the best we can do is make educated guesses, based on the direction things seem to be heading. Automation or not, I am pretty sure I will have to keep paying the bills, and that means I have to

Thank you @ninahaskin!

I hear you... but I just don't see it happening. I was at our Safeway grocery yesterday and they are remodeling... mostly removing a few more full service checkstands to expand the self-check area from

Well, it's always interesting to watch... and even though I had no liquid Hive at the moment this took off, I'm not unhappy about seeing my staked value jump over $5K in a matter of minutes. The cool thing

Yep, that, right there: It always start from #Upbit where Hive/KRW sets the pace. The good news about these is that even though they almost never "hold," we usually find a new higher base for

These things are usually triggered on the Korean Upbit exchange, starting with the HIVE/KRW (Korean Won) trading pair... someone executing some automated trading orders, and when the trading volume all

Figures! Most of my relatives back on the other side of the pond are a sarcastic bunch!

It does seem like an organization that large would not "go down," so we become suspicious that what they were doing might have been a little sketchy, and deliberately staged. I'm glad I only

My wife gets far more into it than I ever have... I just don't care for the eternal cycle of people's inflated "highlight reels" of their lives. I'm sure they did a lot of scrubbing. They are

Well, yes... I'm thinking you are quite right!

I guess some of that — at least for me — is just a part of getting older. I don't feel old but sometimes I am looking out the window, and then I suddenly realize that I nodded off for five minutes!

Yes, sometimes the old "three finger salute" feels more than a little appropriate!