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Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by LogicHoleFlaw »

giardini wrote: post #14

The price quoted sounds high even for the USA. http://ezinearticles.com/?Bone-Marrow-Transplant-Costs---For... says it can be done much cheaper in India. This is not leading-edge medicine today (it was perhaps 10 years ago). But medical centers still try to charge leading-edge prices. Yet another reason we need a national health care in the USA - to get doctors out of their Mercedes, off the golf courses and back int…

It's not the doctors. It's the "benefits plan administrators" and other suchlikes.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by azharcs »

mileszs wrote: post #17
azharcs wrote: post #5

I will tweet and maybe blog about this. I really can't help him much with the money part, but the least i can do is show it to people who have money.

I'm not sure why you are getting down-voted. I think some people find the idea of being poor inconceivable. Perhaps some people think that if you can post on the Internet, you should be giving money away. In any case, I know from whence you are coming. I'm sure the family would appreciate your efforts regardless. Advertising for the cause is absolutely helpful, as most Hacker News posters should know.

I really don't know why i am getting voted down. I am curious actually. I told a logical thing, I didn't have any money in my paypal because i had withdrawn almost all of it. But i also wanted to help him, so said will tweet and blog about it. Doesn't mean when i get funds in my paypal in a day or two, i wouldn't give him.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by dgabriel »

sophist wrote: post #19

Wow, that picture is really manipulative.

The child we are being asked to help is on immuno-suppressants, and is, of course, required to be shielded from germs as much as possible. You're just not going to get a stock photo of baby hugging a goat.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by sophist »

dgabriel wrote: post #24
sophist wrote: post #19

Wow, that picture is really manipulative.

The child we are being asked to help is on immuno-suppressants, and is, of course, required to be shielded from germs as much as possible. You're just not going to get a stock photo of baby hugging a goat.

So you're saying they didn't intentionally compose this picture in such a way as to increase the likelihood that people will donate?

This is not hacker news. There are lots of kids out there who are in just as much need of help. This one just happens to have a father who works on an open source product.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by newt0311 »

giardini wrote: post #14

The price quoted sounds high even for the USA. http://ezinearticles.com/?Bone-Marrow-Transplant-Costs---For... says it can be done much cheaper in India. This is not leading-edge medicine today (it was perhaps 10 years ago). But medical centers still try to charge leading-edge prices. Yet another reason we need a national health care in the USA - to get doctors out of their Mercedes, off the golf courses and back int…

"medicine for medicine's sake."

Point 1: What do you think doctors are? Saints? They are human like the rest of us and would rather work for cash. They would probably also do better work if they were doing so for their own good. Case in point: Who had more food during the 1950-1980s. The US or the USSR?

Point 2: What makes you think that national health care will make doctors magnanimous? Just switching the payer from individuals to the govt. (which gets its cash from individuals anyway) doesn't magically change people. If we get national health care, doctors will probably start doing exactly what government unions have done: invest in lobbyists.

PS. The patient is in Ukraine. How will changing the US health care system help him?

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by aditya »

sophist wrote: post #26
dgabriel wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The child we are being asked to help is on immuno-suppressants, and is, of course, required to be shielded from germs as much as possible. You're just not going to get a stock photo of baby hugging a goat.

So you're saying they didn't intentionally compose this picture in such a way as to increase the likelihood that people will donate? This is not hacker news. There are lots of kids out there who are in just as much need of help. This one just happens to have a father who works on an open source product.

This is someone whose work most hackers have directly or indirectly benefited from.

This child is going to die if some people don't help - and you're worried the news item is polluting your sacrosanct daily news feed?

If you can't help, don't, atleast don't NOT help? Hope this gives you some perspective.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by bootload »

"... Donations are requested to help Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL support engineer in Ukraine, provide for his son Ivan who requires a bone marrow transplant operation. The cost of this operation is expected to be between €150,000 - €250,000 ($235,000 - $400,000). Please help us provide Ivan a chance to live ..."

I know this could be seen as a heartless gesture but has anyone verified with MySql that Andrii Nikitin is who the page claims? I know this is shown off the mysql site but that's just a webpage. Does anyone personally/professionally know Andrii? Does anyone know Andrii at MySql?

It would help greatly Anreii's cause if MySql "officially" set up an MySql postal account allowing non paypal money orders, cheques etc to be passed on if they use MySql by name.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by jonknee »

giardini wrote: post #14

The price quoted sounds high even for the USA. http://ezinearticles.com/?Bone-Marrow-Transplant-Costs---For... says it can be done much cheaper in India. This is not leading-edge medicine today (it was perhaps 10 years ago). But medical centers still try to charge leading-edge prices. Yet another reason we need a national health care in the USA - to get doctors out of their Mercedes, off the golf courses and back int…

... And he's not even in the US. He's in the Ukraine.
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