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this story has been submitted before [1] and it appears to be killed or shadow-killed each time (although I could be wrong). I can see why. It's a sensationalis
by alanh 10y ago
this story has been submitted before [1] and it appears to be killed or shadow-killed each time (although I could be wrong). I can see why. It's a sensationalist news piece with many unfounded assertions and general mischaracterizations. For example, UberX is lumped in with flying cars as an example of the founder's supposed lack of focus. UberX was a huge part of what made Uber successful. Likewise, autonomy is widely considered the next phase in rides on demand, so it is hardly "scatterbrainedness" in action. There is an attempt to cover Susan Fowler's allegations, but sloppily, it leaves it implied that the manager has only solicited female engineers for sex once (whereas her claims are that he has done this many times, both before and after her own incident). It's a super low-quality article, but attention-grabbing enough to have half a million pageviews already.
[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber%20is%20doomed%20&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber%20is%20doomed%20&sort=byP...
- grzm 10y agoThanks for the link to past submissions. Why do you think it was killed when it was submitted before? I suspect it just didn't catch interest, like so many other submissions.
- alanh 10y agoBecause when you submit the same story again, it instead counts as a vote for that article and redirects you there.
- grzm 10y agoAs I understand it (and have observed), that only occurs within a certain time period. Submissions can be resubmitted. If a submission is flagged, it (often?) doesn't show up in hn.angolia.com at all.