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[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do lab planning for a living and sometimes I like to play "How Many Houses Could This Instrument Buy?" with my coworkers. Usually it's something along the lines of 0.1 to 1 houses, but every once in a while we do a process development lab for some biotech firm, and they want to spring for one of those Satorious automated bioreactors. Those things cost "a whole block's worth of nice houses in a mid-major metro" money.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

So like $10 million dollars?

Nowadays this exercise does more to show how absurd housing prices are than it shows about instrument prices.

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