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I know I'm commenting on the site and not the story -- maybe this is against the spirit of HN -- but hasn't Bloomberg lost credibility here ever since "The Big
by TheRealSteel 6y ago
I know I'm commenting on the site and not the story -- maybe this is against the spirit of HN -- but hasn't Bloomberg lost credibility here ever since "The Big Hack"?
Are we still okay with them? Are we just okay with them as long as it's not a tech story? If so, is this an example of Gell-Mann Amnesia? [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeches_by_Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeches_by_Michael_Crichton...
- perl4ever 6y agoOption 1 is people forgot, option 2 is they reserved judgment, finding it inconclusive, and option 3 is they don't regard Bloomberg as a monolith. At least, those are the possibilities that I can think of, and I think they could plausibly cover most people.