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I wonder if an app can be built, so that when above normal people are dying in a place a well funded international team can be dispatched to figure out the issu
by choot 8y ago
I wonder if an app can be built, so that when above normal people are dying in a place a well funded international team can be dispatched to figure out the issue as soon as possible.
So that we are able to contain mysterious virus and other such outbreaks.
Why wait till more people lose their life?
- cf498 8y agoWho determines what above normal means, and who is preventing people to game the system? And who is funding the dispatch team? Alot of people are dying right now, and the funding situation for aid is depressingly bad. An app isnt going to solve these issues, funding and geopolitics are a much bigger factor
- cronix 8y agoThis sounds like it would be happening in places that wouldn't necessarily have smart phones, or possibly not even have cell coverage. Not to completely dismiss your app idea, but it doesn't sound like it would be feasible in a lot of the places where this sort of thing is happening.
- pjc50 8y agoIt's the status quo, it happens all the time. There's no money in it, and many people are actively hostile to the idea of saving foreign lives if it involves any cost to them as taxpayers at all.
- rjsw 8y agoHow does the app know that you are dead ?
- raverbashing 8y ago99% of cases will have an obvious cause of death.
- paulcole 8y agoSeems like the trickier part here is the “well funded international team.” Classic HN to think another app is the secret sauce to solving this problem.