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alaaf··on Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice
Is this about concentrated synthetic vitamin C or about the natural form? From a chemistry perspective the same, but the natural one comes in a different "package" of other substances (vitamin C complex). I wonder if the effect is the same.
alaaf··on Helping Native Bees Thrive in a Honeybee World
Shameless plug: https://www.beehome.design/ I worked on an app that lets you design your own Bee Home and let it be fabricated at a local makerspace. This way you can help the population of solitary bees.
alaaf··on Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)
It actually isn’t. 400 IU is based on preventing disease. To obtain optimal health though, dosages should usually be much higher. Obviously this differs from person to person, but 2000 IU should lead to optimal vitamin D levels. This is an interesting video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeLC_b5gDUM
alaaf··on Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)
Isn’t this different from read access? Apart from server resources, downloading content doesn’t effect a web site as much as posting on it.
alaaf··on WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Figma uses Emscripten which is technically not Webassembly (to my knowledge)
alaaf··on Ask HN: Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience?
I asked a similar question some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284742 not about the experience, but more about what to keep in mind when switching. Hope it helps.
alaaf··on Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals
> Every day, in doctors’ offices across the US—as well as in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Amsterdam, Australia, Sweden, in 80 countries and on every continent

Amsterdam is not a country. The country is called The Netherlands. Amsterdam is the capital.

alaaf··on Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger
> the free content ad network failed to disclose

Interesting they don’t call it a ‘social network’. ‘content ad network’ is more accurate in my opinion.

alaaf··on Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet
# Hostfile

  127.0.0.1 localhost facebook.com www.facebook.com
Best decision ever.