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jaywalker04:
Bro. If you can sacrifice the fingerprint, I don't know if the camera is much of a sacrifice cos I haven't used the hot 8 yet and I'm not much of a camera person so I'll say it's good enough. It's a perfect phone, if your expectations are in check. Snapdragon octa core, so good performance and no overheating and Miui is a blast. I believe it's better than the hot 8 though.

I can totally sacrifice the fingerprint, I'm not much of a camera guy....

what's the price

jaywalker04:
Then the Umidigi A5 Pro is your best bet. The undisputed champion. You can also check out the Redmi 8a. It's wonderful, and the one I'm using right now.

share your experience on xiomi 8a
I'm planning to get it, but infinix hot 8 too dey enter my eye ,I'm sort of confused



what advice would you give

skywalker240:
Guy go for the A5 pro

can you give reason for this?

CharlesJok3r:
Umidigi A5 pro.

have you used it before? if yes, can you please post your experience?

blackpanthar:
Reputation is NOT integrity, NEVER EVER confuse both to be the same.

Its like you have a lady with good body features and very good character BUT your eyes is going for the other LADY with MORE EMPHASIZED BODY FEATURES yet no character.

Why not just stay with xiaomi BEFORE you go and buy what can not be fixed by repairers because the parts are not available or common?



use your UPPER

thanks bro
But the last line wasn't necessary

since they are both In the same price range, I'll like to buy any of the two tho I'm considering Redmi cos of the reputation and reviews of people but the the umidigi has more features than the Redmi 8A

But recently I heard about the bad camera quality of the umidigi A5 pro, tho it's not much of a concern to me

I need your advice guys

I'm interested

send to me Also

I stopped when I saw that I was gradually becoming an improper fraction.... chest getting wider than the rest of the body....

any idea what I can do to balance this?

mrintellectual:
Actually, I meant formal education, or more specifically, the Nigerian educational system.

Oh, this is better

Education is not a scam....
Education cannot only be acquired in the four walls of the school .
the topic would be better this way :"Why Kill Yourself Over The Scam Called SCHOOL?"
But nothing I'm this world is worth committing suicide for

P.S:Education has made the world a better place

matify83:
The picture would have done justice to your case but from the little you said in your post, I think she may
have Cutenous larvae migrans, a worm infestation gotten from sand where pets like dogs and cats defecate.

Picture uploaded

matify83:
Do you keep pets especially dogs?

no pet

SUPERPACK:
It is gotten from sand, especially if you seat on infected soil, its nothing serious, once had same in my hand.

hope say e no go remain inside sha, and what's the name

check the pictures below
It all started on Sunday when an aunt of mine started having this itching feeling In her laps and she saw that on her lap.
So this night,when the itching became too much, we decided to give some pressing and squeezing hoping some whitish fluid comes out(we thought it was boil).
Lo and behold, what came out was something a parasite (looked like maggot, whitish in color) still kicking and bouncing. I forgot to get it on camera before it was removed and killed


my question now is
what could have caused this and
what can we do at this stage cos I'm confused and
could there be more inside ?
don't mind my grammar o

the pictures won't upload o..
I know from my explanation, you already get it

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this is just ambiguity

Chidorx60:
I wish there was a course like Biomedical Engineering in Nigeria.

wait is it possible to do a postgraduate on biomedical engineering outside the country after I finish my undergraduate course in medicine.

unilorin has biomedical engineering
and I think unilag just introduced it too

those are the two I know of tho

Richiez:
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!!!

pls did you receive my message containing my full name

confusedGuy:
Programming is just a part of computer science. You must not study computer science before you start writing codes.

I studied physics and here I am making A living from programming. I have never made a dime with my physics cert.

I started learning Programming while in school studying physics at 300L....just imagine mixing physics and coding....it all boils down to passion. And you have it!

Mathematics, Physics, computer science and engineering are the four subject one should have a degree in to get a programming job. However getting a job in programming solely depends on your skill.

You can still be getting millions from programming as a freelancer with your mathematics even while still in school studying.

CODING is a skill....not something you need to go to school to study.

My 2 cents..

Can I pm you sir, I'm also a physics student currently in 200l
I'm interested in programming but I don't really have a clue where to start and how to go about it
I would love to have a personal chat with you sir

cosmas0p:
Very informative thanks, permission to copy and share

no problem sir

When you know a particular topic really well, you might say you know it like the back of your hand. But how well do you really know that hand? Or the rest of your body, for that matter
Here are eight inaccurate claims about the human body, debunked by real science.

Myth 1: Your fingerprints are completely unique

"It's impossible to prove that no two are the same," Mike Silverman, a forensic science regulator in the United Kingdom, told The Telegraph. "It's improbable, but so is winning the lottery, and people do that every week." There can be serious consequences if most people believe that fingerprint analysis is infallible.

Myth 2: Rolling your tongue is a genetic trait

Just 12 years after geneticist Alfred Sturtevant published a paper claiming that genetics determined your ability to roll your tongue,geneticist Philip Matlock disproved this finding with a study of his own . When he compared 33 sets of identical twins, he found that seven of those pairs contained one twin that could roll his or her tongue but the other couldn't.
Since the genes of identical twins are the same, genes clearly weren't the deciding factor for tongue rolling. Still, the misconception persists 65 years after Matlock published his debunking study.

Myth 3: You have five senses

Children often learn that they have five senses - sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. That's a "fact" that originated in a work by the Greek philosopher Aristotle , written around 350 B.C.
However, you actually have more than five senses. Way more. In fact, scientists aren't even sure just how many more - estimates range from 22 to 33. Some of those other senses include equilibrioception (sense of balance), thermoception (sense of temperature), nociception (sense of pain), and kinaesthesia (sense of movement).

Myth 4: Fingernails and hair continue to grow after death

Our bodies do lots of creepy things after we die , but they don't keep growing our fingernails and hair.
While our nails and hair don't continue to grow after we breathe our final breath, our skin does "shrink" as it becomes dehydrated. As the skin retracts, our nails and hair become more exposed, and, thus, they may appear to grow.

Myth 5: You should never wake a sleepwalker

Mark Pressman, a psychologist and sleep specialist at Lankenau Hospital in Pennsylvania,
told Live Science the belief that it's dangerous to wake a sleepwalker began in ancient times when people used to think your soul left your body while you slept,therefore, would doom the sleeper to a soulless existence.
While Pressman said waking a sleepwalker won't harm them, it might not be easy to do. Letting a sleepwalker's journey continue uninterrupted is clearly not an option since it could have devastating consequences - sleepwalkers have been known to injure themselves or even die in their zombie-like state.

Myth 6: Swallowed chewing gum takes seven years to digest

If you believe the legend, gum you swallowed years ago is still in your body; your digestive tract is still working on the chewy mass. While it's impossible to pinpoint the origin of that myth, debunking it is fairly easy.As Rodger Liddle, a gastroenterologist at the Duke University School of Medicine, told
Scientific American, the human body is capable of passing objects up to roughly the size of a quarter, so a single piece of gum should pose no problem.

Myth 7: Most of your body heat escapes through your head

This misconception isn't nearly as old as some of the others, and it is believed to have (somewhat) scientific origins.
As Vreeman and Carroll(health service researchers)told The Guardian,No one body part has a greater impact than any other when it comes to retaining heat.
Because the head accounts for about 7 percent of the body's surface area, it doesn't seem much more important than any other part of the body for retaining heat.

Myth 8: Some people are double-jointed

Chances are you've watched someone pull her thumb back to meet her forearm or bend his leg forward at the knee. Maybe you can do these things yourself. Either way, you know most people can't, which perpetuates the myth that people can be double-jointed.
Ultimately, this misconception comes down to a matter of language. No one is born with extra joints, but some are born with joints that are extra flexible. This condition is called hypermobility or joint laxity, and it affects an estimated 10 to 25 percent of the population .
Hypermobility is typically caused by either abnormally shaped bones or loose ligaments.

source : sciencealert.com

He may (or may not ) have brought about the world's first genetically modified human babies using CRISPR-Cas9, but He Jiankui's shoes are probably not the most comfortable in the world right now.
According to reports from Chinese media, the geneticist's whereabouts are currently unknown.
It's been reported that he is under house arrest at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, the institution that employs him, and from which he has been on leave since February.
However, the university has denied this, a spokeswoman telling the South China Morning Post, "Right now nobody's information is accurate, only the official channels are."
He has not been seen in public since Wednesday last week, when he attended the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong to clarify his claims.
He rattled the world last week when, in an
interview with the Associated Press, and then a
series of YouTube videos , he announced that he had successfully edited the genome of human embryos using CRISPR-Cas9 - and then those embryos, twin girls, had been successfully brought to term.
This - if He's claims are true, and there are those who believe they are, even though they are yet to be independently verified - would be huge.
Not just because they would be the first "designer babies" in the world, but because He seemingly conducted this experiment without any oversight or approval, and against regulations.
It's a massive ethical misstep , and the scientific community has widely criticised his actions.
Among the reasons for this: first, we don't know the long-term risks. Second, He edited something completely unnecessary. Third, it was a germline edit - meaning it will be passed down to those babies' offspring. Fourth, he did all this without any transparency. Fifth, this will absolutely shake the public's trust in the future use of CRISPR-Cas9.
According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, Chinese authorities have denounced the experiment as "extremely abominable in nature" and a violation of Chinese laws, via vice minister of science and technology Xu Nanping.
The Southern University of Science and Technology released a statement distancing itself from He's work, saying it "seriously violates academic ethics and academic norms."
The Chinese science union has also condemned the research, announcing that it "resolutely opposes so-called scientific researches and biotech applications that violate the spirit of science and ethics."
He is facing investigation from the Southern University of Science and Technology , as well as China's Ministry of Science and Technology, which has banned him from conducting any further research, the South China Morning Post reports .
His colleague, bioengineering professor Michael Deem of Rice University in the US, is also under investigation for his potential role in the proceedings.
If officials at the university have any knowledge of the geneticist's whereabouts, they are keeping it to themselves.
"We cannot answer any questions regarding the matter right now, but if we have any information, we will update it through our official channels,"
the spokeswoman said.

Princedapace:
Freelancing has been amazing bro. I don't know what I would have done without freelancing becus naija na cast country. I av been able to quit ma job as CCR for more than one year now. It has not been easy but for naija no body send u o.

Second class upper from a good university, yet I couldn't land a good job. Na useless job wey won kill me I got. Thank God I had to chase freelancing badly. At least it pays me more than my job back then.

In fact, God bless those who created such platforms. I am scaling things up now and improving on my skills. I know the industry very well and still learning as I advance.

I have trained very few people though and some of them have been able to use freelancing to survive this useless country.

All thanks to freelancing jareee

I sent you a pm sir

On Tuesday, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg took hours of questions from senators about his platform, in a hearing that was mostly about the Cambridge Analytica revelations, and the wider privacy concerns that have plunged the company into a major crisis of trust with the public.
Not all of the questions were on topic.
Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) was one of the members of Congress who instead used a portion of his time to ask the company about other rumors and stories that are critical of the company.
In Peters's case, the question happened to refer to one of the biggest conspiracy theories that people believe about Facebook.
"I hear it all the time, including from my own staff," Peters said. "Yes or no, does Facebook use audio obtained from mobile devices to enrich personal information about its users?"
"No," Zuckerberg replied. He paused and then said he wanted to elaborate. "You're talking about this conspiracy theory that gets passed around, that we listen to what's going on on your microphone and we use that for ads. We don't do that."
Zuckerberg, and the tech-savvy press covering this marathon of a hearing, may have rolled their eyes at this question - the claim has, after all, already been
debunked by Snopes and countless news outlets.
But among people who haven't spent years thinking about Facebook and privacy on the Internet, it might not only seem possible that Facebook is listening in on your phone calls - but believable.
There are a lot of anecdotes that propel this story around the Internet: Someone is talking on the phone and mentions they want to buy a Jeep. Hours later, a Jeep ad shows up in their News Feed.
Or maybe someone's talking to their friend, near a phone, and says they need a new blazer. They check their phone, and there's an ad for one. You might have an anecdote like this yourself. A viral video claimed to prove this with a test - the video has more than 1 million views.
The rumor has gone viral at least two other times: once, in 2014, when Facebook launched an opt-in app that could listen and identify the music or TV show in the background while you wrote a status update, and in 2016 when a professor's eerie experience was the basis of an article claiming that Facebook was listening to everything you say (it's worth noting that the professor in question later clarified that she herself made no such claim ).
And these stories can often be very convincing. The podcast Reply All recently devoted an entire episode to debunking this idea and then trying to convince people who were sure it happened to them that there might be another explanation to that ad that freaked them out.
As many journalists - and even some former Facebook employees - have pointed out, Facebook doesn't really need to be listening in on your phone calls to target ads and put things in your News Feed that are eerily on target.
"Facebook can find you on whatever device you've ever checked Facebook on.
"It can exploit everything that retailers know about you, and even sometimes track your in-store, cash-only purchases; that loyalty discount card is tied to a phone number or email for a reason," wrote Antonio García Martínez in Wired. Martínez was Facebook's first ads targeting product manager .
Among other things, your location information, your purchase history, and your web activity could have contributed to Facebook's creepy ability to show you ads that seem to read your mind.
It's worth noting that Facebook also recently announced it would limit how companies could use third-party data like purchase history to target ads - although advertisers could still work with third-party data brokers to get that information outside Facebook.
In 2016, Facebook released a longer statement
about this rumor. Here it is, in full:
Facebook does not use your phone's microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed. Some recent articles have suggested that we must be listening to people's conversations in order to show them relevant ads.
This is not true. We show ads based on people's interests and other profile information - not what you're talking out loud about.
We only access your microphone if you have given our app permission and if you are actively using a specific feature that requires audio.
This might include recording a video or using an optional feature we introduced two years ago to include music or other audio in your status updates.
The explanation that Facebook isn't spying on you through your microphone because it already pretty much gets the information it needs hasn't convinced many of those who believe they've experienced this phenomenon first hand.
And it's not exactly the most soothing of debunkings.
If you're worried about this, you can always go into Facebook's app permissions on your mobile device and delete its access to your microphone. Or, you know, quit .

But many people will probably not believe him.

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