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Why is this news? How does the volume of business affect Joe Uber User or even Sally Hacker in general? This doesn't seem even remotely interesting.
by colinbartlett 13y ago
Why is this news? How does the volume of business affect Joe Uber User or even Sally Hacker in general? This doesn't seem even remotely interesting.
- jmduke 13y agoIt's raw financial information about a well-known and much-discussed new business, a business about which we aren't often privy to any numbers. It's okay that you don't find it interesting, but I -- and many others, thus the upvotes -- do. (If your definition of newsworthiness stems solely from whether or not it effects you in general, then I'd imagine you'd have to eliminate 80% of Hacker News, as well as ~98% of all world news.)
- colinbartlett 13y agoNo snark necessary, Justin. It was a genuine question. I just didn't understand why it was so highly upvoted and why this was so interesting to people.
- jmduke 13y agoI apologize if I came off as snarky with the middle bit, I didn't mean it as such. (For instance, I don't find the VC stuff on here, such as the Kima15 thing, interesting at all. But I recognize that a huge portion of readers here do.)