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Re:Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later by Tv9m on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:19PM (#34744365)
Looks like IVF costs around $12,000 today. Considering that this is for your own child, I bet it would be one of the least expensive parts of raising them. I also expect it would become very cheap after it went mainstream.

> The Human Genome Project was the international research effort to determine the DNA sequence of the entire human genome. It took 13 years and was published in 2003, with an estimated cost of over $300 million. Today, a whole human genome can be sequenced in one day for under $1000.

https://frontlinegenomics.com/a-history-of-sequencing/

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Re:Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later by Eisenstein on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:42AM (#34751459)
$12,000 is more than the average yearly income for a person on this planet. The USA has only 300 million or so people in it. What are the chances you are born in a place where $12,000 is considered 'the least expensive parts of raising a child'?
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Re:Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later by Tv9m on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:40AM (#34786573)
Would you have made the same argument for mobile phones back when they costed $12,000? I'm assuming that many people will want to use this technology.
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Re:Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later by Eisenstein on Thursday February 16, 2023 @01:19AM (#34815696)
A mobile phone can be mass produced based on one design. This is not the case with removing eggs and doing custom gene work on them, incubating them, and implanting them in a person. You are making an invalid comparison. There are no 'economies of scale' with individual procedures.
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Re:Gattaca is still pertinent 25 years later by Tv9m on Sunday February 26, 2023 @02:20PM (#34948461)
It doesn't seem like you're addressing the HGP example, which at the time, would have been an "individual procedure" as well.
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