Another challenge of the health posts is that they’re open only on the weekdays. If someone gets sick on the weekend, and they don’t have the money to travel to a health center or hospital in the surrounding area, they’re out of luck. The DHS conducted more than 33,000 searches on devices in 2018, a jump from the 30,200 device searches it conducted in 2017. In 2015, there were only 4,764 device searches.
"We don't currently have a way to get tokens out," Eich said. "We will add that as soon as we can," using partnerships with cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase and Uphold and requiring a fraud-thwarting process that means users must identify themselves, he said.
EVEN IN THE PLANNING stages of Nevins’s home, the garden came first. When she purchased the land, it was largely overgrown, a tangled mass of trees and scrub. But once she cleared some brush, she discovered several stately old oaks and giant cedars; she built the house and gardens to maximize their impact while leaving the perimeter wild. Now, every way you look — down the paths, past the garden rooms and beds, beyond the exuberant rose bushes — your eye lands on one of those towering trees in the middle distance. “Your eye is relaxed but excited by seeing it all within a frame,” she says. "I want the player to play freely but at the same time there's more dramatic storytelling ... It's really difficult but I'm trying really hard to do both," Kojima said.