[HN Gopher] How Taiwan's Digital Minister solved a mask supply p...
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How Taiwan's Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem
Author : baylearn
Score : 47 points
Date : 2020-08-14 09:40 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wired.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| Good article, but why are the titles always clickbait? She
| doesn't seem that "unlikely" to me, and she didn't hack the
| _pandemic_ - the hacking was to do with mitigation efforts, and
| not the actual virus or disease.
| baylearn wrote:
| Agree, I would have preferred a better title too.
|
| And knowing her reputation in the hacker community, it is
| anything but unlikely to me that something like this has
| happened.
| dang wrote:
| Ok, we've made her not be unlikely and have replaced the baity
| general bit with the neutral specific bit (opening paragraphs
| ftw), above.
| ISL wrote:
| Without the donation of Maps credits from Google,
| findthemasks.com couldn't have happened exactly as it did. I
| can't imagine what our bill would have been otherwise. Donations
| from a number of companies were (and remain) essential to
| leveraging the skilled volunteer workforce into something
| awesome.
| rvnx wrote:
| If really no companies were interested, maybe you would just
| have added new POIs on OpenStreetMaps and everybody could build
| on it
| baylearn wrote:
| They could have used OSM if Google charged standard rates for
| maps
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.is/eb54h
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