<story><title>Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust</title><url>http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/special-needs-trust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnoller</author><text>It doesn’t mat­ter what com­mu­nity he is part of, nor who he is. He’s a hacker, a father of two beau­ti­ful girls and a hus­band. He’s being robbed of his life, and his daugh­ters robbed of their father.&lt;p&gt;What matters is we can help. All of us — some of us (me) have been lucky enough to get help and sup­port when we needed it most from peo­ple we didn’t expect it from.&lt;p&gt;We can help him; we can help his fam­ily. Even if only a lit­tle, and even though we know what the future will hold. So let&apos;s just do it.&lt;p&gt;Skip the squabbling over politics; national healthcare, etc. It &lt;i&gt;doesn&apos;t matter&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;what matters is him and his family, right now&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Aaron Winborn: Special Needs Trust</title><url>http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/special-needs-trust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ap22213</author><text>I&apos;ve heard of several cases of programmers getting ALS.  This seemed statistically unlikely, since the ALS site stated that only 5 in 100,000 acquired the disease.&lt;p&gt;Then, I googled &quot;programmers ALS&quot; and found this study:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/162/12/1146.abstract&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/162/12/1146.abstract&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It suggests that programmers do have higher risks.  (Still, keep in mind that the study is small, and even if there are increased risks, the odds are still low.)</text></comment>