I don't suffer from dandruff, and I have no medical credentials. But something happened to my dog which got me to thinking.

A while back my dog developed a sebacious cyst on her back. Easily movable under the skin, either a sebacious cyst or a lipoma, I wasn't worried about it. One day the cyst was broken and the gunk and blood hardened into a scab over the wound, but the scab contained a lot of her hair matted together. I figured this happens to dogs in nature and it will get better on it's own. It didn't. As the hair kept growing, the hardened area pulled away from the wound which re-oozed, and the scab got bigger. Eventually it was a fairly large scale. I tried cutting it off but it was hard to cut and remove and I only got part way through it. It kept growing and oozing.

Then one day I noticed all of her skin along her spine, from her head to her tail, was covered in rough flakes... keratin like flakes of skin. And now I was worried. Did she develop some kind of skin cancer? I took her to the vet, who didn't even really look at her skin (she seemed afraid of catching something) but thought I should consider putting her down. But she also gave me chlorhexadine and said to wash the scab with it (mixed with water) and try to dissolve it away, and just keep coming back washing more and more until it was gone. I did that and the scab dissolved away. I also combed all these large keratin flakes out of her wet hair (I washed her whole back), and quite a lot of loose hair came with them, and all the flakes came out, and now her skin felt normal again. The would healed properly this time and the flakes didn't return.

So here is my hypothesis: Dandruff is an adaptive protection mechanism meant to separate matted-up-scabs from the wound they are attached to.

When I look online I can't find this hypothesis anywhere. All the pages offer help on curing dandruff, none of them explain why it happens, what it's purpose is. This reminds me of Chesterton's fence: don't take down a fence if you don't understand why it was put up in the first place. If this is the purpose of dandruff, then human dandruff is probably just an aberration of the mechanism and curing it is probably fine. But it might help enlighten the specific conditions that trigger the genetic pathway.

I'm probably wrong. But that is how science goes. Observe. Take a guess.... not being a scientist or vet with access to lots of dogs to experiment on I can't take this one any further.

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Funny how nostr is a lot like bitcoin. There are those who get it and those who will throw every bs statement at it (probably for years) until proven wrong. It’s as if they haven’t learned anything the first time around. nostr:note1nej94a72kspap3m058ddkrw292v5gnz7gvd9qdp09kg2krd59dmqkve3jc

PRETTY BULLSHIT

Coming from a guy that promotes a shitcoin that nobody uses after it has been around for 9 years 🤣😂🤣

SWAP "NOSTR" FOR "BITCOIN" AND YOU HAVE A PETER SCHIFF TWEET.

STAY HUMBLE AND NEVER TWEET LIKE PETER SCHIFF.

Your posts are often pathetic

The privacy aspect of Bitcoin and Nostr is a bummer. I really hate that it seems like privacy is an after thought.

Two things can simultaneously be true:

1) I want Nostr to succeed.

2) I don't love what it is today.

Thankful for all those continuing to work on Nostr and the broader ecosystem 🫂

I only criticize out of love and to be sure that people understand that there are actually tradeoffs with Nostr! We need dissenting opinions on here.

💯

And that's something heavily underrated about Nostr that is usually an issue with centralized social media -- it is generally Tor/VPN friendly.

That could change if relay ops have issues with spam, but for now it's true at least.

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You'll find many types on nostr, including those like me that think the value of the network is that it's a broadcast medium for tamper proof messages. I have zero expectations of privacy here because that is not the point.

One option is to keep the base experience free, with certain features included in a subscription model. If balanced properly it allows for both open use and funding.

The main hurdle is user adoption. Only a small percentage of a user base will pay a monthly fee.

Ah yes, nobody is paying for X.

This is a tricky one in our case. Usually absolutely right. Building for everyone = building for no one. As they say ☺️

With social and bitcoin involved (which tends or have poor reputation with normies), we also have that to worry about. Making an excellent bitcoiner social will only go so far. We need to think inclusivity and how to make it about nostr and not necessarily about bitcoin, without alienating the bitcoiners.

The Nostr experiment will teach us that:

1. Entrepreneurship is HARD. Beware survivorship bias.

2. VC money doesn't guarantee success. It just means you have more to burn through.

3. You have to cultivate a brand to rally support

4. You HAVE to charge. Free only amounts to more free. Paying = signal. That's not to say that you can't have some free, but someone has to pay and signal for desired features.

5. You HAVE to do marketing. Build it and they will come is a fallacy. Only works on rare occasions when you build something truly spectacular. Ideal marketing split is AT MINIMUM 50/50 build/hustle to get the word out.

6. People lie. They say one thing but do another. Back to payment = signal.

7. What developer values ≠ what users value

8. Building something truly unique can work against you because new concepts are harder to explain. Familiar = less selling required.

Did I miss anything?