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You can't donate hair follicles .. it has to come from your own body

But all these people in Turkey walking around with their brand new hair follicles, aren't those from other people? Or from the same person, just elsewhere?

The follicles come from the back of your head. Feel your head, there's an area where the skull and vertebrae meet. Place your hand over that area. That's the "donor" area. Follicles on the front of your scalp are sensitive to DHT (what your body metabolizes testosterone into) for many humans. This is where male pattern baldness happens.

They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.

So in theory if I want less head-hair and more chest-hair, I could in theory do this by moving the hair follicles? Interesting stuff.

That would not be practical. Visible body hair (and head hair) is "terminal hair". Peach fuzz is "vellus hair". Androgens turn vellus hair into terminal hairs (and are also the driving force for male pattern baldness). There was a big stink on social media about the character Aloy in the game Horizon who had vellus hairs visible on her face - like every other human woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_hair


I stopped using samsung because of the uninstallable facebook apps.

I don't get why if i'm paying multiple thousands of dollars for a phone that they still bundle what I consider spyware and give the user no option to uninstall it.

On my last Samsung I went into the settings and disabled all of the apps that I couldn't uninstall .. and when I checked the settings like 6-8 months later, those apps were still disabled, but in the meantime they had installed a few more facebook authored background apps without my permission.

I will not be going back until they stop this.


I agree. Bet apparently most other people don't.


As long as you never have to interact with them. If you run into issues they have caused themselves, you'll find yourself dealing with a unique mix of arrogance and incompetence.


I've been using Hetzner for ~20 years and every single support interaction I've ever had with them has been top tier. Never AI bots, always humans who are helpful, courteous and prompt. I can't think of a single company, let alone hosting company, whose customer service has been so consistently good.


It certainly helps the service never does anything wonky that requires a support interaction in the first place.


Are you sure they're not just being German and you are misinterpreting what they are saying?


I think people are too focused on the device part of it.

Whatever Apple did to block access to the cache does not negate the fact that these notification messages are still being sent in plaintext through Apple and Google’s servers.

It’s hard to imagine that Apple/Google couldn’t just be compelled to hand this information over if ordered by a court and wouldn’t need your phone at all.

And this loophole possibly only hinges on the fact that most law enforcement maybe never realized this was something they could ask for.

Or perhaps this is happening and the public just doesn’t know it yet.


This doesn’t affect existing users.

This is a simple supply and demand curve.

Higher demand means the price goes up .. this has been true of things since before SaaS and before computers


Thanks for all the logical fallacies in one comment.


No. It means eventually existing users will be affected too. These companies are deeply in the red.


Could also be non-native speakers .. Even as a former grammar nazi, now that English isn't my daily driver language I find myself making basic mistakes .. (two, too, to / its, it's / etc.)


I was always more partial to Compute magazine



Compute! was very much aimed more at the home market that Byte (which appealed more to IT professionals). At the time, though, Compute! and Compute's Gazette (for Commodore computers) were great for me.

The most amazing magazine of all, though, was The Transactor. Exclusively Commodore, and for programmers. Very few ads, too. Their "Inner Space Anthology" was an incredible resource for everything technical. Memory maps, ROM listings, and much, much more.

https://csbruce.com/cbm/transactor


If this gets swept under the rug, it doesn't seem like they are going to do anything about it, and it will mean that only the bad people are going to be able to find this stuff.. who knows for how long.


Trump support is currently at 37% and only 69% of people think this is valuable.

A 6% overlap is hardly unifying.

The few Trump supporters I know think the whole thing is fake.


Why would they think that? Is it just that they like him because he's a conspiracy theorist, even if he's also in on this particular conspiracy?


E-Gold fulfilled all of these ideas and existed long before bitcoin and this article.


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