This is just like, my opinion man. You looked better bald.

How did it hold up over the past few years?

Butt hair is not that bad if you compare to European promoted tech leaders:

There is Microsoft, we have Qwant.

There is Claude and DeepSeek, we have Mistral (originally a copy-paste of LLaMA stolen by employees, now a fork of DeepSeek, with a few changes).

Then there is ASML and Airbus, alone on their island of innovation.

We have LIDL too, so not everything is bad.

If it wouldn’t be that bad why European companies prefer the US.

It's interesting to read about.

I visited one of those Bosley places in the US. The pitch came across as very...predatory? It did not inspire confidence. They would only consider scheduling you for the surgery if you could demonstrate that you'd use other measures for a year, meaning finasteride, one of those laser hat things, etc. They did talk about how few surgeons there were that do this stuff well though. Also talked about scalp injections I think?

It's been several years. I just decided to let it go naturally and deal with it.

I can't read the article myself, but the blurbs I can read:

> Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation. [...] it’s also a tale of “hacked” medical equipment and algorithmic craftsmanship

Seems there was some actual "hacking" involved, if they had to patch medical equipment, but who knows how much of the article is actually about that, I can't actually see any text.

Yeah they totally isomorphed that industry!

Hack is being used to get more clicks.

If you're not white enough, it's a hack. You can get around this problem by attracting some VC funding and building your HQ in Silicon Valley. /s

It’s hacking when it’s someone you don’t like.

I saw a headline about this the other day. I couldn't find it but did come across this article. https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/genetic/lab-grown-hair-f...

No idea if ZME science is reputable at all.

Could I donate mine to you? Been shaving my head for the last 20 years and I cannot wait for it to stop growing eventually... Seemingly it grows faster every year, as I need to continuously increase how often I trim it, I simply want less hair.

Edit: I love that someone downvoted me for offering my hair follicles to a random stranger, downvotes truly happen randomly here :)

Yes, yes it's coming. In 10 years.