Bwahahah, :facepalm:... I totally deserve this for reading diagonally and not properly understanding while busy with sth else at the time of writing X"D

Perhaps I'm too used to RFC-based standards-building culture where people can actually suggest and/or contribute without opening their wallets?

I don't know what you mean by "contribute momentum". I'm just pointing out that unless you pay $20.000, the commercialization of my own power metering device is bound to baking in vendor-specific hacks that'll have to revert if you need to change chips and/or development platforms (i.e due to chip shortages).

The version of Matter's "open standards" is: Pay our yearly $20.000 fee to get access to a private #GitHub repo where the standard is actually written. Alternatively, stick to vendor-specific hacks until big corp with 20k$ releases spec changes for cameras, power metering, etc (those are still not supported). Thread and evidence over: https://twitter.com/braincode/...

A recent post from David Dill from Stanford University stated that "Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy"[1]. Given that viruses and security breaches seem to be on the rise lately, do you see e-voting being established in our lifetime? [1]: https://engineering.stanford.e...

Very informative answer @volvox_voxel!

IMHO, one of the big issues with Illumina sequencing is that (apparently by design), it does not facilitate "real time" sequencing (streaming) as the MinIONs/Promethion does, i.e:

https://www.biostars.org/p/156...

If those .bcl files being generated could be fed ASAP into a socket or similar, that would bring Illumina closer to the new generation (4th now?) of sequencing.

Can you please contact me (OP of BioStars post above)? I'm really interested in discussing this topic: trying to squeeze the timeline of the Illumina's to go from "batch" processing into something a bit more generative/streamlined.