Welp, AFAIK you can only click the "parent" hypertext at the top of the comment, which in this case requires four slow pageloads to access the OP.
I will therefore save you the pain.
So close! I clicked it twice and then decided to stop since I had no idea how many "parents" there would be before the top. Thanks for the link!
It's been reduced to 99$ and it seems like it is a permanent reduction. I was thinking of buying it at 299$ because it had not been on sale for a while, so I'm very pleased this happened.
Their press release on it:
http://blog.23andme.com/news/one-million-strong-a-note-from-23andmes-anne-wojcicki/