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Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by majewsky »

honkycat wrote: post #33
squirrelicus wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're missing some of the point. Enthusiasts for this kind of thing are the same kind of people that inexplicably embed metal objects into their face just to feel different.

Body modding has been around for thousands of years in various cultures. It's just something weird humans enjoy doing. What is wrong with wanting to look different? What makes you so great that you can judge people?

> It's just something weird humans enjoy doing.

Interesting syntactical ambiguity here:

  It's just (something weird) humans enjoy doing.
  It's just something (weird humans) enjoy doing.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by peteretep »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #49
seanp2k2 wrote: post #45

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or just get a magnetic bracelet?

The magnetic fields from those items don't produce much force, so you need a small thing on sensitive skin to notice the effect. A bracelet is probably too heavy to notice fields that don't also come with a "warning: strong magnetic field" sign.

I mean I guess I was thinking of something to amplify the effect, probably with a small battery in it. All the sated curiosity with none of the questionable body modification :-P

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by beaconstudios »

mlang23 wrote: post #47

Biohackers give me the creeps. I remember this one big failure story of a women that spoke at a CCC event a few years ago. The magnet she implanted into her finger dissolved in her and they had a pretty hard time pulling out the individual bits. I cant get rid of the feeling that these people have read too much scifi.

biohacking definitely has a tinge of "DIY cyberpunk" to it. I find the area interesting, but my concern is that the mods they do right now aren't actually useful, and the surgical aspect is totally unnecessary. This leads me to think that magnet/RFID implants are more about in-group signalling (about being a hardcore hacker or being into cyberpunk or transhumanism) than they are about enhancing your abilities.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by Faaak »

wodenokoto wrote: post #56

I was surprised to read that the magnets weaken over time. I honestly thought permanent where really permanent, but according to a google search: > Neodymium magnets are the strongest and most permanent magnets known to man. If they are not overheated or physically damaged, neodymium magnets will lose less than 1% of their strength over 10 years - not enough for you to notice unless you have very sensitive measuring…

As a parallel question: does that mean that permanent magnet motors degrade their performance over time ?

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by majewsky »

aeharding wrote: post #19
sjroot wrote: post #10

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Do you worry about the security implications of this? If you storing something sensitive like a private key, I mean.

It's not any amount of bitcoin I'd miss. Just kind of for fun. I guess I could encrypt it with some passphrase that's easy to remember, but I haven't bothered. Honestly I'd be impressed if someone retrieved the bitcoin.

It would be fun to implant the functional parts of a contactless credit card into one's palm, then freak out cashiers with your supposed force power. :)

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by davman »

jstanley wrote: post #46
Hextinium wrote: post #35

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Cody took down that video and a lot of his other ones when YouTube got really trigger happy about flagging explosive context or anything vaguely not advertising friendly due to King of Random. That was one of the videos he took down but he did mention it in others. I cant find the video where he talked about the video takedowns sadly.

It's sad that YouTube has got to the point where people feel the need to self-censor totally inoffensive videos. We desperately need something better than YouTube.

I guess the question is, what is it about current YouTube alternatives that don't cut it, apart from the userbase being smaller.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by gardaani »

aeharding wrote: post #8

I've had a programmable NFC tag embedded in my right hand, between my thumb and pointer finger for the last 5+ years. I forget about it for a month or so sometimes. It's neat, I guess, for storing a small amount of text information (bitcoin private key, stuff like that). Can read with any NFC capable phone.

Thousands of Swedes are also doing that. They store credit cards and key cards under their skin.

https://nordic.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embed-micr...

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by eutectic »

wodenokoto wrote: post #56

I was surprised to read that the magnets weaken over time. I honestly thought permanent where really permanent, but according to a google search: > Neodymium magnets are the strongest and most permanent magnets known to man. If they are not overheated or physically damaged, neodymium magnets will lose less than 1% of their strength over 10 years - not enough for you to notice unless you have very sensitive measuring…

Probably exposing them to strong magnetic fields.
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