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nmerouze | 8 years ago | on: Is vitamin D really a cure-all, and how should we get our fix?

I am VDR Taq positive and from what I gathered as long as you check your vitamin D levels from time to time and supplement accordingly it shouldn't be an issue. Also there are co-factors for sulfation of vitamin D like zinc, B6, DAO, lysine so you need to check those too. It becomes more complex when, like me, you also have mutations that makes B6 and zinc less abundant.

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis

If it was sustainable, I would applaud. But the reality is that young people don't want to take over the farms and rural population decreases rapidly. Even with incentives, new people don't want to take over farms because investment needed to modernize them is too important.

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis

I lived in many European countries and all are cheaper. Same for the US. Canada might be an exception but the time I spent there (Vancouver), produce was cheaper than Japan (I live in Osaka).

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis

Agriculture in Japan is very under-developed. You add the import restrictions and it leads to produce being twice as expensive (if not more) than most western countries. It also means lack of variety. And organic products are rare. Shortages are a thing bound to happen.

I was hoping for TPP to be accepted, but now I am just going to leave the country.

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk (2016)

Cholesterol isn't bad, it's in fact very important for the production of testosterone among other things. The problem comes from the inability to use it because the body isn't healthy. Polyunsaturated fats will produce bad byproducts when it breaks down and over time makes the body sick.

We crucially lack magnesium and potassium in our diet. There are tons of studies showing the benefits of magnesium against heart disease. And it's not just the heart, cholesterol can obstruct the liver and a sick liver will cause a whole lot of problems.

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials into the New Serfs

I've lived in Paris where it is the same, or even worse because there are historic buildings everywhere. Now I live in Japan where it is the polar opposite. I live in a very dense area of Osaka in a building built in 2013 for the same price than my way smaller and very old place in Paris. If only Europe and North America could be like that...

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: Vue in 2016

You can use JSX instead of string templates. This way you can get type safety.

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: A small dive into, and rejection of, Elm

I am currently using Elm on an app and had no difficulties creating a select list like the one in the article.

I use Elm more as a way to write components on a server rendered page and it works for great this way! The eco-system is too small to think about creating complex SPA at this point but I really like the language and hope it matures well.

nmerouze | 9 years ago | on: Why Tokyo Is the World’s Best Food City

Mexican food anywhere in Japan is pitiful and only slightly less worse in Tokyo. Living in Osaka, I clearly see a lack of diversity. I'm French, lived in Paris and travels a lot but I agree with the article, I have been to some French and Italian restaurants (run only by Japanese) that offer the best value worldwide.

nmerouze | 10 years ago | on: How can I get marketing experience?

I don't see how you could work with a growth team on the side but if you are searching for a website with existing traffic maybe you could do marketing for a popular open-source project you like. It's not the ideal solution you described but it would allow you to learn marketing, even if it's by yourself. And you won't even have to make a product.

nmerouze | 11 years ago | on: Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease reversed in rats

A few studies showed caffeine can achieve the same results than DNP. And I know a few people who reversed fatty liver with caffeine alone in just 2 weeks. The only problem is to have enough caffeine tolerance to get to 800mg through the day.

nmerouze | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which Go Web Framework (Pros and Cons)?

If you want to render HTML, there's a lot of security features that you won't get with micro-frameworks. And even Beego and Revel have a lot to do to catch up with Rails and Django. So for this type of apps, I would stay with Rails or Django for now (depending on your preferences).

If you make REST APIs, then you can use a micro-framework because there will be less boilerplate to get to what you want. Goji and Gin offer great performances compared to Gorilla, Martini and the others.

I see a lot of companies using Rails or Django for their main app and Go for their background processes. I think this approach is a good first step to get better performances and knowledge of Go, keeping the productivity of these frameworks to render HTML apps.

nmerouze | 11 years ago | on: Benchmarking Phoenix vs. Rails vs. Sinatra vs. Express vs. Martini

Gin, a Go web framework similar to Martini, would probably performs 10 times better. Since the only purpose of using Martini is because it has a similar style than Phoenix, I would suggest changing the framework to Gin or another Go framework since Martini is not the only framework available.

nmerouze | 11 years ago | on: Build Your Own Web Framework in Go

In my opinion, Go is great to make REST APIs, but for full-fledged frameworks (with server-generated HTML views) Rails will always be light years ahead for the developer productivity and happiness. That's why the article focus on a web framework to make REST APIs.
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