FEMA removes statistics about Puerto Rico hurricane recovery from website (washingtonpost.com) 85 points by panarky 8y ago ↗ HN
[–] sergiotapia 8y ago ↗ FEMA removes — then restores — statistics about drinking water access and electricity in Puerto Rico from websiteWhat's with the title change for clickbait?— then restores — [–] Amulet- 8y ago ↗ they probably changed the title, no need for accusations [–] Xorlev 8y ago ↗ Right -- they changed it when FEMA fixed the issue. [–] CobrastanJorji 8y ago ↗ I'm going to guess that, seeing as the update was made this afternoon, the story was posted before the story was updated. Not everything is a malicious act. [–] panarky 8y ago ↗ The URL slug has the article's original title.
[–] Amulet- 8y ago ↗ they probably changed the title, no need for accusations [–] Xorlev 8y ago ↗ Right -- they changed it when FEMA fixed the issue.
[–] CobrastanJorji 8y ago ↗ I'm going to guess that, seeing as the update was made this afternoon, the story was posted before the story was updated. Not everything is a malicious act.
[–] old_relic_ 8y ago ↗ To give a little context, 99% of the US has clean drinking water[1] and 100% access to electricity[2][1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/03/access...[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?year_hig...
[–] CobrastanJorji 8y ago ↗ Puerto Rico has a website tracking availability by municipality: http://www.status.pr/Maps/MapaAlimentosAgua?lng=en
[–] zaroth 8y ago ↗ I commented heavily in the PR post last night which I thought had good discussion. [1]This seemingly adds nothing to the discussion and is a non-story IMO so this seems flag worthy to me.[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411685
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 31.4 ms ] threadWhat's with the title change for clickbait?
— then restores —
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/03/access...
[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?year_hig...
This seemingly adds nothing to the discussion and is a non-story IMO so this seems flag worthy to me.
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411685