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You mean apart from their financial and personal incentives? No, not much else. I'm sorry, at some part you draw a line. My line is disparaging the clock that'
by seivan 11y ago
You mean apart from their financial and personal incentives? No, not much else. I'm sorry, at some part you draw a line. My line is disparaging the clock that's not even right twice a day isn't considered ad hominem.
Same reason my source about racial discrimination isn't Stormfront, and my source about startups isn't Vox.
Also I wouldn't take what Breitbart has to say about sexist issues at face value either. I'm expecting you to be able to learn that soon enough, I mean you'd give me the same treatment if I shoved a bunch of Daily Mail articles at you. And rightly so.
- tarsinge 11y agoI'd not give you the same treatment, I would discuss the facts (if there is any). For example, is the uber street campaign to destroy Lyft talked in the Gawker article [5] real or not ? (I have no context and no opinion on the issue, so I was genuinely interested)
- ianstormtaylor 11y agoNot sure why I'm bothering to respond, but here are the same stories from a bunch of other publications. My initial comment was just a quick Google search, so the originals and highest SEO'd articles win out. Feel free to accept whichever one you deem a "good enough" source: [6]: http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-self-inflicted-wounds-of-uber-20141119-column.html http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-self-inflicte... [7]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/uber-worst-company-silicon-valley http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/uber-worst... [8]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/uber-exec-apologises-emil-michael-journalist-sarah-lacy http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/18/uber-exec-... [9]: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ubers-boys-club-whats-wrong-silicon-valley/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ubers-boys-club-wha... [10]: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-avions-de-chasse-promotion-with-hot-chick-drivers-2014-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-avions-de-chasse-promoti... [11]: http://www.fastcompany.com/3037552/uber-cancels-sexist-hot-chick-promotion http://www.fastcompany.com/3037552/uber-cancels-sexist-hot-c... [12]: http://www.newsweek.com/uber-taxi-e-hailing-riding-app-travis-kalanick-emil-michael-josh-mohrer-uber-285385?piano_t=1 http://www.newsweek.com/uber-taxi-e-hailing-riding-app-travi... [13]: http://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions?currentPage=1 http://www.gq.com/story/uber-cab-confessions?currentPage=1 [14]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opinion/we-cant-trust-uber.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/opinion/we-cant-trust-uber... [15]: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-uber-proposes-digging-into-journalists-private-lives/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/emil-michael-of-ube... [16]: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/acting-like-jerks-not-quite-working-out-for-uber.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/acting-like-jer... [17]: http://www.alternet.org/7-evil-things-uber-did-2014-you-should-know-your-next-ride http://www.alternet.org/7-evil-things-uber-did-2014-you-shou... [18]: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/12/uber-travis-kalanick-controversy?mbid=social_twitter http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/12/uber-travis-kalanick-... [19]: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-scandals-timeline-michigan-shooting-140035801.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-scandals-timeline-michiga... It's trivial to verify that a source has the right story, so once verified then conversations should shift from debating the accuracy of the source to the consequences of the story itself.