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Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their... by bsenftner on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:23PM (#25627005)
As a person with just shy of a stats graduate degree, the early 2010's were a nightmare of trying to get ad tech companies to grasp their incompetency. I met a dizzying number of slick talking frauds and became quite jaded.
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Re:Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their... by cmrdporcupine on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:23PM (#25627348)
Ok good, it wasn't just me being overly negative (because I usually am). I am not a stats grad, my math is weak, but it didn't look good to me, and I tried to get my employer to bring a stats specialist in to analyze. That got a cold response.
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