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Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by beat »

Keep in mind that there are health conditions that can kill seemingly healthy young adults instantly - aneurisms, heart attacks, brain cancers, and others.

I'm reminded of one of my dogs dying of hemangiosarcoma - a cancer of the blood vessel linings that thankfully only happens to dogs, not humans. In many cases, the way we find out a dog has hemangiosarcoma is that the dog suddenly just drops dead. (In Rubu's case, it was three weeks from the first symptoms.) There are similarly fast and deadly cancers in humans.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by biot »

swombat wrote: post #77
personjerry wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should pay for whomever's music you enjoy regardless of whether they're an independent artist who needs the money.

I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion for this, but who cares... I think paying money that ends up in the pockets of large record companies who then spend that money to pass laws that break the internet is morally reprehensible. I think buying music in this day and age is immoral. The faster the music industry collapses, the better off we all are. I am sorry if some artists have to pay for this too in some way, but…

That's a perfectly fine position. However, if the record companies are so abhorrent, isn't Step 0 to stop listening to their music at all? Plus a Step 2 being some form of action to attempt to change the situation. Without that Step 0, it's a bit like saying "I hate Big Theater" while sneaking in the back door to enjoy the movies.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by jordigh »

DanBC wrote: post #56
raverbashing wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real life is not a CSI episode, also labs have a limited processing ability But maybe tests are done in stages? Like, if nothing obvious shows up on first tests then some other ones are done?

I don't think anyone is expecting "enhance enhance enhance ah, this person had $SUBSTANCE in their blood", but months does feel a bit long. It'd be interesting to see what the bottlenecks are and how to improve them.

I understand it's mostly volume of requests vs available lab techs.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by TillE »

beat wrote: post #81

Keep in mind that there are health conditions that can kill seemingly healthy young adults instantly - aneurisms, heart attacks, brain cancers, and others. I'm reminded of one of my dogs dying of hemangiosarcoma - a cancer of the blood vessel linings that thankfully only happens to dogs, not humans. In many cases, the way we find out a dog has hemangiosarcoma is that the dog suddenly just drops dead. (In Rubu's case,…

Yeah. Deaths from undiagnosed heart conditions make the news every so often when it happens to young athletes. Sometimes very young. I believe just in the past few years, defibrillators have become standard equipment at football grounds in Spain and England.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by richardlblair »

emehrkay wrote: post #22
jkimmel wrote: post #8

My step-sister dated Josh for a while when I was growing up. My few memories of him consist mostly of Josh explaining technology to me at the dinner table in slow, careful words so that a middle school kid could understand. I remember him laughing with me about the crazy/terrible things I had done to overclock my Android Dev Phone 1 at a time when no one else I knew thought that was interesting. I remember feeling re…

I hope this doesn't come off as too selfish, but I hope that I can do things/interact with people that leaves a meaningful bond long after the relationship has "ended" Maybe paying it forward is the best thing to do in his memory.

Honestly man, other than money that's all we can leave behind. Strive to do your best so that when you leave this world people miss you. That's how you know you did a good job.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by yasiel »

djfm wrote: post #15

"toxicology results would be done in two or three months" This seems like a long time, is it normal?

I used to work at a drug testing facility. Our typical test urine and saliva took 3 major steps.

1) Negative Screening (6hrs) - Figuring out what compounds show up initially. Special dyes were use to identify potential compounds. Not conclusive but narrows down the next steps

2) Extraction (10 - 18 hrs) - Separate the target compounds from the rest of compounds/proteins in the sample fluid.

3) Postive Certification via GCMS (2hrs - 16hrs) - The extracted compounds were ionized (broken into predictable pieces) then sent through the GCMS to where a signal signature determined.

Each step included equipment expensive materials and equipment. The last step is was the most expensive and error prone. The GCMS machines need maintenance and calibration. They cost anywhere from $30,000 to $70,000.

Sometimes we lost samples because the machine would lose it's calibration and wouldn't be enough to start another set. We took in samples on a national scale, but I can see how a smaller non-commercial lab accumulate a large backlog.

This was like 10 years ago but I don't see the technology changing that much.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by methodover »

Fuuuuuuck. Sometimes I think I have a good handle on death, and what it means. Sometimes I think I understand it. Sometimes I think I don't fear it.

Then something like this happens and, just, _fuck_. I don't know how to handle it. Someone my age, doing something very similar to me, just dies. That's it. Story's over.

A few weeks ago I told my CEO that I intended to quit and pursue a dream that I've been wanting to pursue for a long time now. My boss seemed pretty surprised -- it's a really good job after all, with good pay, at a good company. I gave him an argument that began with, "I'm going to die. Not like, I'm going to die soon. I don't have a disease or anything. I don't know when it's going to happen, but it could happen soon." And then I went on to talk about pursuing said dream.

At the time it felt like a really silly argument -- like, I'm not even thirty yet and I'm thinking about how I'm going to die someday. Then something like this happens. And death feels so much closer, so much more real. Like a nightmare just waiting around the corner, ending my story before I'm done with it.

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