abe_duarte | 3 years ago | on: Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
Monsanto knows this, they have known it for a while. It's a similar case to the teflon "issue".
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abe_duarte | 3 years ago | on: Weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
People who have been exposed to the chemical got cancer. Internal Monsanto documents show the link and their concern. A man got a court to rule in his favour for 289 million dollars, after the jury saw this evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-tr...
abe_duarte | 8 years ago | on: After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters
Great!
abe_duarte | 8 years ago | on: The Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (2015)
Great album, Joy division is a legendary band.
abe_duarte | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to not bring emotion from work back home?
I do the same, video game sessions are great for refocusing, specially for weekends. Friday night gaming will take my mind off work. Early Saturday exercise allows me to start the weekend well. Given that I can leave your laptop at work, I try to have another computer at home so there is no way for me to access work email. I also snooze all work notifications in my phone. That gives me space to work on my own projects during the weekend and reclaim my mind's focus.
Gaming is just one of the things but an important activity.
abe_duarte | 8 years ago | on: That Time I Paid $6,544 for 256MB of RAM to Run Photoshop…
At home we had 16 mb at that time on a PC Pentium clocked at 90 Mhz. This much RAM was insane at that time. I'm impressed Apple allowed for so much RAM.
I remember that some sticks would come out damaged so I used to test them with memtest86. I solved an issue where my PC would restart suddenly because of a bad stick.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: The Modern History of Computing (2006)
I´m not sure. The world modern is used to name specific periods of time. Example, modern history--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history
Maybe a historian named this period as such in the history of computing.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: Kim Jong-nam killing: Suspect 'was paid $90 for baby oil prank'
I agree, her movements are very decisive. This does not look like somebody carrying out a prank.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: Kim Jong-Nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say
I bet they administered themselves atropine soon after.
But your theory is really cool, each of them had half of the nerve gas, the second's hand would have been contaminated. This thing will go through your skin.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: The clock is ticking for Spotify
You are right in music the older catalogue is reused more often.
Netflix can produce a series which you will watch once and seldom see again. New content is king.
In music you mix old with new. If you lose the old content you will greatly limit the listening experience.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: The clock is ticking for Spotify
This is an interesting idea you put there, labels would like to see a weak Spotify.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: Save the Date by Google
Meh...
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: Save the Date by Google
Since the numbers appear where the pieces usually are I think this makes sense.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)
This event is explained more in depth in the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull. It's a pretty good story.
abe_duarte | 9 years ago | on: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views
Amazing, so many moments.
abe_duarte | 11 years ago | on: A database of SMS cards: The technology inside IBM's 1960s mainframes
I've been sort of a computer history enthusiast lately. Read about 7 books in the last few months. I found this read very interesting. Always wondered how these where built inside.
It seems IBM replaced this technology with SLT in 1964, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Solid_Logic_Technology .
abe_duarte | 11 years ago | on: A database of SMS cards: The technology inside IBM's 1960s mainframes
Great quote, thanks.
abe_duarte | 12 years ago | on: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 (1981)
Loved this quote:
"One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago."
abe_duarte | 12 years ago | on: A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour
I too thought at 26 I was training, believe it or not your time is now!
abe_duarte | 12 years ago | on: Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone
I find it hard to believe that Microsoft is outselling iPhone in Colombia. Even if that was the case iPhone is vastly more popular.
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