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Re:Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China by blhack on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:29PM (#11128566)
How is that hypocrisy?

>We beat some people in some markets, but now we're being beaten in this market, I wish we weren't.

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Re:Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China by malsun on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:09PM (#11129336)
It's not just some markets and some people. They're a VC backed multinational that moves into markets and offers big discounts over local businesses. They are getting a taste of their own medicine with an improved flavour.
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Re:Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China by Avshalom on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:50PM (#11128719)
"I wish the world wasn't that way" looks like its being applied to "unprofitable in every city they exist in, but they're buying up market share" not "We have a fierce competitor" as opposed to if he had said [I wish we didn't] or [I wish they didn't]

making it about the "the world" pushes it into an ethical or moral opine.

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Re:Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China by mbesto on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:46PM (#11128692)
"I wish we weren't" != "I wish the world wasn't that way"
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