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Post by kylehotchkiss »

danans wrote: post #233
usednet wrote: post #32

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Its definitely a cultural thing. The task would be extremely easy in any Indian city, but they probably don’t realize it would be near impossible in the West. Same with task 3, it would bankrupt Americans to pay for somebody else’s medical bills.

It's only perhaps possible in the most desperately impoverished portions of Indian cities. If you think even moderately poor and above Indians are going to be OK with a random person picking up their children for a meal, that's pretty unlikely.

There are festivals in India where you invite neighboring children in for a meal and some pooja (worship rituals). I’d compare it to Halloween for westerners where the kids tend to come to you! Not every family is guarding their children from strangers too much

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by hoppyhoppy2 »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #3

Has anyone actually completed the three demands and gotten their data back? As the requests are so bizarre and I'm so cynical it seems more likely they just want you to do silly things after destroying your data.

>Since there are no known victims/ targets for the ransomware group, their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures remain unknown.

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by maccolgan »

oehpr wrote: post #270
temp8964 wrote: post #257

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> "do some majorly positive action for the world" What can Jeff Bezos do more positive than creating Amazon? What can Elon Musk do more positive than creating Tesla and SpaceX? etc. etc.

/s?

Have you lived in a world pre-Amazon? Supermarkets are horrific.

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Post by GaylordTuring »

threads2 wrote: post #271
refurb wrote: post #95

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Universal healthcare doesn’t pay for everything. My friend in Canada has a boy with a rare disease and the out of pocket costs are significant.

Hey don't downvote this person! Pharmaceuticals, dental, vision are all things Canadians still have to pay for. It's a real shame.

I've never understood why dental care isn't included when you otherwise have universal healthcare. Why single out dental problems? It's about as impossible to just ignore having an infected tooth that needs to be pulled out as it is not doing anything about a broken arm.

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Post by GaylordTuring »

cube00 wrote: post #62
andi999 wrote: post #58

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Or task 3 would also be impossible in a country with universal health care.

Even countries with universal health care have private hospitals, they'll take your money. One near me asks you to consider paying for their services out of your retirement funds if you don't have private health insurance.

In Sweden, where my opinion of the public health care is that it's useless (unless you're having a really acute problem), I've looked for private hospitals to get help from. No such luck! Finding a specialist to help you, no matter if you have money and are willing to pay feels close to impossible, at least for the things that I've needed help with.

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Post by GaylordTuring »

barneygale wrote: post #196
mlindner wrote: post #43

This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?

Welcome to HN, where suburban America is the only developed country.

Let's crowdsource this :) Please give examples of countries where it would be feasible to pick up five random kids and take them to Pizza Hut without having the cops showing up. I live in Sweden and my feeling is that this is absolutely not possible (but it might just be me who have preconceived notions).

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Post by GaylordTuring »

NoGravitas wrote: post #129
sacrosancty wrote: post #8

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Even in countries with universal healthcare, people regularly can't afford treatment because expensive treatments aren't included.

Like in the UK, teeth are considered luxury bones.

I've never understood this. Not attending to an infected tooth can, for example, spread to other parts of the body, ending up with you having a heart attack or something.

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Post by selimthegrim »

inglor_cz wrote: post #341
accurrent wrote: post #302

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> The blame for that situation is squarely on India. This is a bit of a sweeping statement. Colonization has a big role to play here also. When the british left india the average life expectancy was barely 40. Many other former colonies struggle with poverty and the socioeconomic disaster that it brings along. India has improved since then but has a long way to go.

And many others don't... even places that were brutalized by the occupiers such as Taiwan and South Korea (the Japanese Empire definitely played for the gold in the Imperial League when it comes to brutality against the natives). If anything, the measurable differences between ex-colonies, when it comes to their current state, are maddenigly confused. People tend to forget that even smaller European nations were sort…

Would you call Croats colonized by Hungary?

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Post by tremon »

paulgb wrote: post #6

I was expecting them to want you to make a donation and send the receipt, but they want you to actually round up less fortunate kids and take them out for pizza. Bizarre.

I'm what is known as a white devil these days: white, male, single, rich. If I were to gather any number of kids I have no affiliation with and take them to dinner, I would probably get arrested.

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Post by known »

rootkea wrote: post #349
danans wrote: post #312

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> This is a bit of a sweeping statement. Colonization has a big role to play here also I agree completely. Colonization set the stage for many of the persistent struggles faced by many in the developing world. But colonial powers didn't teach people in India how to oppress their own people, even if they wasted no time taking advantage of and amplifying the pre-existing situation. Today, when a country as productive a…

At a primary school in Utter Pradesh (a state in India) salt and bread (roti) was served to children as part of mid-day meal. Then the state government did what any sensible government will do. They filed a case against the journalist for criminal conspiracy maligning the image of state government. Since last few years it has become fashionable to call Indians who criticize the government "anti-national" as if nation…

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