If you have an idea for how to cure those diseases, I'm sure there are plenty of companies that would love to hear it.

Just saying "we should focus on this" isn't useful; current production capacity is already pretty fully utilized for current standard-of-care treatments or clinical next-generation treatments. If a cure is found, then sure, there are companies that would be willing to sideline some of their current treatments in order to make this cure. But the data supporting it needs to be good, because otherwise, you're depriving other people of their current treatments.

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Of course, people will eventually become I’ll with something, but what I’m thinking is that things like Crohn’s or some kind of organ/nerve damage could be better handled potentially decreasing the number of hospital visits, medication needs, and the domino effect that follows. Time lost from those visits decreasing quality of life. Meds taking their toll on the liver. Just because we can’t “fix” everything, we should do more than treat symptoms.

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>healthy people is not good for business in the pharmaceutical world. If you use something that’s too effective you won’t need to buy more of the less effective stuff.

Speaking cynically, "healthy" people don't exist. The longer someone lives the more illnesses and medical issues they will have. A long-lived person is a long-term patient; being the person/company to cure a degenerative/"incurable" disease is a huge windfall in both money (at that point, you can name your price) and prestige. No company would sit on that information.

Speaking more rationally, it's not like curing these diseases would be a simple measure anyway. Even treating "normal" diseases is a massive effort. The amount of raw effort, resources, money, and capital investment needed to produce normal treatments isn't something to be casually dismissed. Pharma companies would be happy to "retire" a medication in exchange for a huge windfall payment from the cures in order to make room for other medications/processes that are in the pipeline.

You’re one of those people, huh? Completely ignore the context of the “conversation” to prove something that wasn’t brought up.

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> Here’s another thing: healthy people is not good for business in the pharmaceutical world. If you use something that’s too effective you won’t need to buy more of the less effective stuff.

Yeah that's why my dentist tells me to keep drinking lots of soda and my optometrist recommends sitting really close to the computer screen in a dark room all day.

You nutter.

Even a spontaneous erection can cause this, as pre-ejaculatory fluid can cause sticking.

So siblings might be called Hans Eriksson and Saffi Eriksdotter even if they have the same parents?

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they dont work in shoes, but if youre not wearing shoes, its a fine plan.

>why do legumes have so much more protein than other plants?

They don't, if you're comparing the whole plants. Plants have different parts and we don't always eat the same thing. Sometimes we eat the plant itself (like the leafs) which is usually rich in fibers, sometimes we eat the fruit which is mainly carbs, sometimes we eat the seeds which are generally rich in proteins.

Lentils, beans and so on technically are seeds.

Porcelain is porous.

If it has an unfinished edge which many do on the bottom, water gets into the dish and the water heats up within the dish itself making it hot.

Use glass in a microwave only.

Ah yeah that makes sense

The owners have a limited understanding of how the fees work and are passing the cost on to the customer. There is no genuine reason to do so, the owner may of just been an investor who wanted to own a simple shop however neglected to understand that there may be extra work involved, like checking the totals add up at the end of the day. It might appear superficial but the business could be someone's life savings

The ethics of harvesting the cells has been a pretty big issue. Someone started saying they come from aborted babies and that dude went with it. Stem cells could literally be harvested from the placenta and umbilical, some not so good cells from adults too. Here’s another thing: healthy people is not good for business in the pharmaceutical world. If you use something that’s too effective you won’t need to buy more of the less effective stuff.

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Yes, the order is always the same. The refraction that happens in a rainbow isn't actually "splitting the light into colors," it's actually just taking white light (which is a combination of all the visible wavelengths of light) and spreading them out like an accordian. So, the colors you see will be ordered by the wavelengths of light.

Low frequency light wavelengths that we can see start at red and as the frequency increases you get up into orange, yellow, green, blue, etc.

Yes, always. Because the frequency of the light is what determines what color it is, and it's the light that's getting separated into its component wavelengths. Each wavelengths "bends" a little more than the one before it (gets diffracted)

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Actually I think the reason is more like this:

In addition to charging a % based fee, credit companies also charge a flat fee per swipe. For example, they might charge $0.07 + 3%. So if the total is $1, the fee is $0.10, or about 10% of the price. The flat fee matters less as the price increases.

This is why places have minimums for credit cards.