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Let's not forget that both inflation and unemployment were in double digits, Iran was holding Americans hostage, and gasoline rationing was barely in the rear view mirror

something is missing, this isn't close to 100%

You think Travis Kalanick should go to jail? Really? For what?

>> The program does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements A computer program that interprets written language -- natural-language processing -- is reliant…

You're changing the subject. You imply Travis isn't a good CEO because his company is losing money, whereas Steve Jobs was "was a phenomenally effective CEO." At the age of 40, he …

In the early 1990's, JP Morgan developed software tools it packaged and sold as "RiskMetrics." It standardized the way most banks measured and reported their portfolio risk. For ex…

When Steve Jobs was 40, which Travis Kalanick is now, he had been kicked out of the first company he founded (Apple), and his second company (NeXT) was failing miserably. Pretty mu…

She claims to have screenshots of everything, so she could substantiate them. But you've pointed out the impossible position Uber is in... what if her claims are false, or exaggera…

I agree with you. Which is why the entire Susan Fowler discussion and subsequent holier-than-thou proclamations (i.e. Mitch Kapor) are odious, since there is currently zero substan…

And HN and other tech sites are somehow exempt from this phenomenon? With billions of dollars at stake at Uber and its various competitors, is it impossible to think, for example, …