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Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by azharcs »

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.

With these theory of yours, we might go around helping no one, because you can always find people more needy or helpless than the one we are helping. Nobody said this was the last time, they are doing charity. It is one step at a time. I am sure nobody is helping this child because, his father works on an open source product. If you replace the father with a fisherman or farmer, I am sure people would sympathize the same way and donate the same amount they might be doing now.

A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by wheels »

Does anyone else find it a little disheartening that despite being hosted on a MySQL / SUN site, and despite this meaning that they're obviously not providing his family with health insurance, that they're not even offering to do any contribution matching? I'd hope for a little more from a small-ish company that just got bought for a billion dollars.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by menloparkbum »

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…

This isn't the 1970s. The doctors will probably see a maximum of $40,000 from that operation, split between them. The rest of the money goes to hospital overhead.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by tx »

wheels wrote: post #32

Does anyone else find it a little disheartening that despite being hosted on a MySQL / SUN site, and despite this meaning that they're obviously not providing his family with health insurance, that they're not even offering to do any contribution matching? I'd hope for a little more from a small-ish company that just got bought for a billion dollars.

Why do you assume that every country is a little copy of US?

Ukraine uses old soviet-era state-sponsored medical system free for all citizens, i.e. you don't need an insurance.

Even if he's got some kind of supplementary private insurance for private clinics, it obviously won't cover procedures in other countries, just like most American insurance companies.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by wheels »

tx wrote: post #35
wheels wrote: post #32

Does anyone else find it a little disheartening that despite being hosted on a MySQL / SUN site, and despite this meaning that they're obviously not providing his family with health insurance, that they're not even offering to do any contribution matching? I'd hope for a little more from a small-ish company that just got bought for a billion dollars.

Why do you assume that every country is a little copy of US? Ukraine uses old soviet-era state-sponsored medical system free for all citizens, i.e. you don't need an insurance. Even if he's got some kind of supplementary private insurance for private clinics, it obviously won't cover procedures in other countries, just like most American insurance companies.

I live in Germany, for the record. But more of my point is that his company seems willing to ask for donations on his behalf, but not actually help.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by Tichy »

wheels wrote: post #32

Does anyone else find it a little disheartening that despite being hosted on a MySQL / SUN site, and despite this meaning that they're obviously not providing his family with health insurance, that they're not even offering to do any contribution matching? I'd hope for a little more from a small-ish company that just got bought for a billion dollars.

Yes, I admit I had the same thought. I would imagine if I was the CEO, I would maybe just pay the bill. But who knows what other things there are, maybe that kind of approach is not feasible.

Re: Donate to help a MySQler

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Post by Tichy »

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…

If you are right, it could be the single most important comment on the thread. Somehow the message should be brought to those people in need.

And I also wondered about the price tag.

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