In your hurry to donate time of your life pro bono to Uber’s PR team, you might have missed that I never claimed they did. The argument I did make is that when

In your hurry to donate time of your life pro bono to Uber’s PR team, you might have missed that I never claimed they did. The argument I did make is that when you’re talking about a company which has put considerable effort into building tools specifically to deceive governmental authorities and break its legal agreements you can’t rely on a small unscientific study to say anything doesn’t happen. “Uber doesn’t price based on battery life”, “Uber disables price manipulation for known journalists and their cohabitants”, and “Uber disabled price manipulation features after reports went wildly viral” are indistinguishable in that experiment, and there’s nothing like enough data to even begin to make the argument that the claim could not possibly be true. Put another way, if I say someone cheated at cards and you say that’s an urban legend because they were never caught, knowing that the alleged cheat was Bernie Madoff might change your confidence in that belief because you know without a doubt that he was willing to cheat in even more serious areas.