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dfjorque | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

Seems like WhatsApp has a large user base all over Latin America (no hard data, just what I gather from some comments I have read).

dfjorque | 12 years ago | on: Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

Also standard here in Chile. FB Messenger is somewhat common as well, but WhatsApp has the largest following by far.

dfjorque | 12 years ago | on: Acid-bath stem-cell study under investigation

Article about the study: http://www.nature.com/news/acid-bath-offers-easy-path-to-ste...

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143630

dfjorque | 12 years ago | on: Groundbreaking discovery could pave way for use of stem cells in medicine

Here's a video of the mouse embryo, with a beating heart and all: http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2014/jan/29/mouse-e...

dfjorque | 12 years ago | on: Does life end after 35?

Those idioms are called "chengyu" (成语) and there are hundreds (or thousands) of them. Some of them come from ancient Chinese stories and poems and are pretty allegorical in nature; others, like (seemingly) the one mentioned in the article, are self-explanatory (to a Chinese speaker).

dfjorque | 12 years ago | on: Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser

And Prince of Persia too...

dfjorque | 13 years ago | on: Take care, it's Floating Point Arithmetic

A pretty interesting (if quite long) introductory reading about the subject:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...