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Given the time frames they looked at, couldn't a bunch of these be people going to a pub, and then leaving after last call? This would also explain the spike near the weekend, among other things.
I mean, I found the idea behind the post interesting: of course you can analyze trends in ridership to draw interesting conclusions. At the end of the day, however, it's a horrible idea to say "Hey, we know which of you are being 'frisky' and where!"
Perhaps with a different motivation, this post wouldn't be nearly as ruinous. How about ridership patterns of sick or socioeconomically disadvantaged people? That's the kind of data that can change lives for the better.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195715/http://blog.uber....
I can see why they deleted it, it's extremely cringey.
The service they provide doesn't allow the "Ministry of Truth"[1] to doctor historical documents to meet their present day narrative.
There have been very, very few times when a company's webpage was down and I needed to go to google-archive or archive.org to refer to some innocuous information. However, the times that I've used those sites to gather evidence of possible whitewashing? Many, many times, in comparison.
I can see why they deleted it, it's extremely cringey.
Why? Do you find OkCupid's blog posts cringey too?
Stuff like this is one of the many reasons I love archive.org. I think i's really important to capture historical artifacts for future analysis. The service they provide doesn't allow the "Ministry of Truth"[1] to doctor historical documents to meet their present day narrative. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Truth
archive.org respect the robots.txt of the current website owner. This can mean that they have the data but choose not to give you access to them. I have seen cases in the past where a website I once frequented became defunct, then the domain expired, then someone parked a holding page on that domain including a robots.txt that keeps archive.org from displaying the old data (which do not even belong to the current owner of the domain!).
If they wanted to, there are a number of ways Uber could prevent archive.org from displaying that blog post. Many of these ways are due to the good faith under which archive.org operates (nobody is forcing them to respect robots.txt), and some even involve resorting to legal methods. But history is always mutable.
(Nothing but love on my end for archive.org, believe me! But I do want to point out the lengths that some people will go to alter the historical record).