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  • I’d be all for it but I’m actually not sure how much the public would like to spend on this topic with lots of other things to take care of too.

    Billionaires on the other hand just collect wealth and don’t have to think about the public opinion. They could even market it as philanthropy.

    I’m aware that they might want to keep a lid on it but that’s still better than no cure at all.


  • I didn’t anything about big pharma and intentionally not curing it. What I’m saying it’s concentrate the efforts and throw more money on it, especially the money of billionaires.

    I’m following cancer research pretty closely since a lot of family members died to it (different types of cancer), my father has it and I have a precancerous condition. I know there’s progress and effort. I just wish for it to accelerate and I sincerely believe that billionaires could do that.


















  • Black and white is more common in laser printers, less complex, cheaper and it takes up less room.

    Laser printers don’t just shoot color particles on the paper like ink jet / piezo printers.

    They “magnetize” a photo conductor so the toner particles stick to it and then usually transfer it to the paper using pressure and then fix it using heat. You can’t really do the first part for multiple colors at the same time so color lasers can get pretty complex to repeat this process for each color (CMKY, sometimes more).

    So why not an ink printer instead?

    • If you use them often they will cost you a lot. Printer manufacturers love ink printers because they can basically sell water (with a tiny bit of color) for the price of gold. That’s also the reason why they put you much effort into detection of original ink cartridges.
    • If you don’t use them often, the print heads tend to clog and guess what the printers use to flush them? Copious amounts of liquid gold (ink).