Squazic

I think you did a great job of trying to relating this topic to the programming mentality here. Many of the comments here seem to focus on how technology should not be purchased expensively or how this or that is not worth the extra money. The author does not set in stone that you must go for the more expensive item. He does qualify that some things, such as phones, are disposable and should not be approached with the "buy expensive" mentality.

+1 for ninja being 4th most used password

I find the lack of accessibility to the poor for such treatment troubling. Dr. Wartman was lucky enough to work in a cancer research lab that covered the costs of the genome and RNA sequencing AND he had rich doctor friends who helped chip in to buy enough drug for him. While the costs of sequencing are dropping quickly, medical drugs don't fall in price at the same rate. And there's always the chance that a drug to cure that particular mutation doesn't exist. What then? Spend millions on years of research to make the drug?

His wife is hot.