cjeam

No that’s not what OP means. OP means there is a pairing system with a pool of donors. Or a donor chain.

Alice has kidney disease and Barry is a friend who wants to donate.

Claire has kidney disease and David is a friend who wants to donate.

Barry is not a match for Alice. David is not a match for Claire. They all get put into the pairing pool. Turns out David is a match for Alice and Barry is a match for Claire, so that’s who they donate to.

So if you are a willing donor you do not necessarily need to match the friend who prompted you to become a donor in order to help them, your kidney will go to someone else who you do match, and your friend will get one from someone in the same situation.

What’s the lowest bandwidth way we can keep you company?

I consider that to be a terrible idea. Poor people would be selling their organs.

If you are into abstract post-singularity sci-fi the full novel length text of Charles Stross' - Accelerando is available in basic html. Other formats are also available here. His whole blog is fairly interesting and text-based, and contains a list of those of his other work available online here.

And for your news purposes: https://text.npr.org/

Your previous AMA stated that you were not an organ donor , why are you not?