funnyā¦
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Iām actually not sure I missed a day now
The visits page is borderline broken for me, it never shows the correct selections
Day = year
Year = week
Or something like that
Looking at the numbers I donāt think Iām missing anything in this quarterā¦ but maybe Iām wrong
It doesnāt work right on mobile. On desktop it works correctly for me.
You havenāt missed any this quarter, but you missed one last quarter.
I thought it was THIS quarter I was supposed to have missed :-/
Iāve been checking it somewhat obsessively (as I do everything), and I think it was within the last 2-3 weeks or so that I noticed your quarter resetting to 92 instead of the 91 it had been on August 17th. Since itās rolling, I guess thatād put it probably in April or May that you missed a day (Maybe first few days of June at the latest).
Note that the Discourse definition of quarter is odd, as itās a rolling definition (the last 3 months as of today).
Balls,
I was hoping maybe we made a mistake, or my time zone made it show weirdly till it rolled over
I wonder if I missed my birthday somehow, that would be stupid
Yeah, I wish that I was wrong haha, Iāve been weirdly stressed about missing a day (especially during my train trip). Iāve come really close on certain days to not hopping on the forum.
Sidenote: While looking through the user data, I realized that in the last year, Iāve read more posts and topics than anyone else on the forum (even more than Pilgrimsmaster 
).
Itās likely due to being obsessed with keeping everything on read, but I read every single post made.
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I know I missed a day last month as I was tied for the year with @darthdomo. I was so busy and tired from helping my friend move I didnāt check my phone for over 24 hours.
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I remember you mentioning that we shared a forum ābirthdayā of sorts. Iāve still got 7 days to fuck this up, and the next week is absolute hell for me (two exams, multiple projects due, and multiple lab assignments). Thereās a non-zero chance I somehow miss a day lmao.
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I didnāt read the whole article (what a great sentence to start an answerā¦^^), but I know some of the stuff mentioned there. I think if it makes people happy (and rich people a bit less rich, at worst), itās all fine. I guess they feel better, and quite a bit more in control of their lives, and that might actually lead to living longer or at least with less health problems.
Some things arenāt that new, to be honest - putting myself into an āindustrial freezerā might have pretty similar effects as icebathing in the north, dunno.
People have searched for ways to remain healthy or live longer for a very long time now, with various strange methods ranging from ozone enemas or bloodletting to meditation and transcendence, and some had great results - not necessarily living longer, but at least living a happy and healthy life.
Me personally? I try to take a somewhat āholisticā approach - not such a fan of isolated vitamins and the like, but I take a spoon of Astragalus powder each day, for example. It has shown some interesting effects on various allergies, and, in some studies Iām just too lazy to search now, has shown a reduction of the shortening of telomeres - those short thingies at the ends of chromosomes that have a lot to do with death of cells, aging and all that stuff. The plant powder is not really expensive (unless you buy capsules, as always), tastes totally okay and has no harmful side-effects, so I might just give it a try. At worst, it just spices up my morning cocoa
Plus, I try to sleep enough, take good care of my body, try to eat at least a bit healthy and keep a good mindset in general, be it through meditation or just a long walk in the woods. I wouldnāt call myself a ābiohackerā, stillā¦ just someone who would like to live maybe a bit longer, so I can spend more time with the ones I love.
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I consider myself a hacker in the ānobleā sense of the term, before it acquired undertones of piracy and unlawful activities - i.e. someone who takes stuff apart for the sole purpose of understanding it and/or repurposing it.
I donāt consider myself a biohacker, because I have zero knowledge of biology, self-taught or otherwise. Biohackers splice genes and manipulate the living. They open up flesh and marry it with technology. I canāt do any of that, so Iām not worthy of the term.
But I can have it done to me by real biohackers. So when asked, I say that I dabble in biohacking - which is subtly different. When asked why, I say that it allows me to pursue amateur research in human-machine interfacing, and experience for myself in very limited ways what the future will feel like one day. I hack stuff around me for that purpose, but I canāt do any of the ābioā stuff, sadly.
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I am too lazy to find it, but there is a way to track days consecutive I believe. It would be more work on Pilgrimsmaster i believe though
Canāt really believe Iām second, but also Iām totally a lurker here 
Yes I do, but in the original sense of the word before it was co-opted by the supplement/alternative medicine crowd.
I tried to interrogate them about what biohacking actually is on the r/biohackers reddit awhile back. tl;dr they said red light therapy, breathing exercises, and spiritual self-actualization were ārealā biohacking, while implants and genetic modification were not.
After that Iāve basically given up on the term and donāt use it anymore in favor of grinder, which is more accurate for what I do.
I checked out the Netflix series ābiohackersā to see what kind of media people were going to be getting about us, and it actually didnāt have any alternative medicine. It was mostly DIYBio and then got into the evil of germline cell modification because they always do. There was one pretty faithful grinder, but he was portrayed as reckless and idiotic. I donāt have much hope for our image.
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I love how on the Wikipedia page for biohacking, they only briefly mention supplements.
Also, Amal gets this:
Amal Graafstra is known for implanting an RFID chip in 2005 and developing human-friendly chips, including the first-ever implantable NFC chip.[26] In 2013, he founded the biotech startup company Dangerous Things.[27] He is also the author of RFID Toys[28] and speaker on biohacking topics, including a TEDx[29] talk. He has also built a smartgun that is activated by his implants.[30] He has created an implantable cryptographic processor called VivoKey[31] for personal identity and cryptography applications.
While Josiah Zaner who is purposely trying to make a big splash with the ODIN and such gets just this 
:
Josiah Zayner attempted a full fecal microbiota transplant on himself in February 2016.
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It was indeed a bad picture, but I still found it funny looking back.
I often think about how to move the perception of biohacking.
And I believe marketing in the usual sense doesnāt work. Ads about microchips? Whoād click that? Digiwell gets mentioned online? Tons of sceptics / christians commenting bible stuff.
All the interviews and blogs just catch the people that look past the negative image.
The only thing that would help shifting the image was giving Keanu Reeves a free Apex.
By giving tons of free implants and installs away actually. (And Amal did that a lot already at conferences etc)
I really think that only by seeing people use implants, you can convince people that would otherwise be very sceptic.
Some beautiful day a BTC millionaire will join the forum and invest in VK so it can actually tackle the huge problem that is marketing implants, I hope.
We have had opportunities to do that already, but Amal doesnāt want to bring venture capitalists in until we have very specific goals in mind that they can latch onto (and I agree). If we just took any old investment they would accumulate share in the company and dictate how we run the business. Vivokey/DT are a movement first, business second. We canāt have capitalists come in an ruin it before it has even truly begun.
Weāre here to make money, but only as a means to an end. Weāll make biohacking safe and accessible to more people, and weāll do that with the capital and influence we accrue through the business ventures. Venture capitalists and investors just want the capital.
To be fair that LA magazine article did mention implants very briefly in passing near the beginning, it just wasnāt the focus of the article.
The focus was the āguruā types based in LA with the snake oil. One of them even goes as far as to say that double blind trials are meaningless as long as whatever quackery works for you.
Two sugar pills are more effective than one, but a saline injection is even more so for the placebo effect.
I wonder if shoving a tube six inches up your arse to deliver ozone is more effective than only five inches. 
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Thatās why youād want a fellow grinder whos just also a BTC rich kid.
I was actually just referencing one of Amals tweets were he said" where are the BTC millionaires" or something like this.
I agree you do not want a usual investor, you rarely want when you run a business afaik, but in some markets you need huge investments.
Shifting the global image of sticking tech under your skin is definitely a million $ type of thing.
I imagine a capitalist in this game would release implants too soon, not go the extra mile to polish antennas, not risk the bad PR by making safety advisoriesā¦ I like DT/VK how it is, no one else should have a say. But theoretically to tackle the problem of the general perception, a couple hundret mil would probably do it.
If you want to promote implants, you need to show real ordinary people with ordinary jobs, earning an honest income, going about their ordinary lives enjoying the benefits of implants. Something moms and pops, plumbers, accountants and other ordinary Joe Blows can get onboard with and say āHey, Iād like that tooā.
Implants need to become mainstream. Right now, in the eyes of the general population, itās something fringe people do. Bitcoin millionaires are are not the answer. Theyāre also fringe: theyāre not normal institutional investors, and their wealth is dubious at best. The last thing we need is more fringe. Unless of course the Bitcoin millionaire provides real investment money in actual dollars and refrains from talking to the press.