Oxford Nanopore is the disruptive company putting pressure on Illumina. They're racing to the $100 genome and Nanopore is the newer, cheaper tech that Illumina is trying to mimic.

Illumina is a bloated monopoly that hasn't lowered its prices in years. They are anti-innovation.

Oxford Nanopore is currently far more expensive and lower quality than Illumina sequencing. A single minion run costs $500. It doesn’t even provide a single x1 complete human genome.

You can currently get a complete x30 human genome using Illumina or BGI sequencing for similar cost.

It’s not clear that Oxford Nanopore can reduce costs. It’s not even clear to me that the Minion runs are currently sold at a profit. The chips are quite big, and not easily reused. Fabrication costs are likely significant.

"This leaves 90 percent of them as Californians who had a home there at one time."

Sounds made up. Source?

The article is about how California is different from the rest of the capitalist states. Your argument makes no sense.

Will you ever apology for your mistakes?

I am so sorry to share my opinion with such smart people:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/american-state-bigger...

No mosquitoes, no snow, little rain, constant 60-70 degree weather.

Homeless is easier in California. I imagine a lot of New York homeless people die in the winter. Not true in a place like LA.

There's definitely a selection effect completely separate from any political/economic factors (though of course those have an effect too).