This isn't controversial on that front unless you're a scammer or a moron.
Seriously. We need to stop pretending like the anti-vaxxers actually have an argument. We're not CNN. We can financially afford to state the facts of the matter without injecting false balance.
Heh, I wasn't even thinking of the anti-vaxxers! I meant more the "how should we pay for the things that make people less sick" front, which seems to the debate broiling up here.
That's ok, but your comment doesn't come across in that way, and it is also sort of irrelevant. One guy with a lot of money decided to give free flu shots to some kids, period. He is not solving the world's health problems and I can't honestly see how that is relevant to what he did.
What kind of "relevant" discussion were you expecting down here? What kind of "relevant" response to "one guy gave free flu shots" can be expected?
I would say that this is not an especially good post for Hacker News, in that it concerns neither programming nor the business of start-ups. Larry Page works for an interesting company, but this is not news of that company doing something interesting; it's a philanthropy report. Good Hacker News threads provoke discussion; there's not much to discuss w/r/t philanthropy unless you bring up the subjects which are now being criticized as too negative.
I would say that, but it's a tradition of Hacker News to be far less focused on its main subjects than it says it is, and posts like this arouse interesting discussion.
This isn't controversial on that front unless you're a scammer or a moron.
Seriously. We need to stop pretending like the anti-vaxxers actually have an argument. We're not CNN. We can financially afford to state the facts of the matter without injecting false balance.