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		jonhendry on Feb 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched Scurvy might be devastating, but it's ridiculously easy to prevent. Especially nowadays.

maxerickson on Feb 26, 2012 [–]

Sure. I was responding to the tradeoff question. It just doesn't seem very likely that some animal survived because it wasn't making Vitamin C (the other case is some animal surviving even though it didn't properly make it).

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