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Re:Uber’s Most Important Innovation Is a Pricing Algorithm by jlas on Friday August 22, 2014 @04:24PM (#8213770)
Anyone else annoyed by the claim that

  the general mood being summed up by a tweet calling Uber “price-gouging assholes.”
links to a tweet with underwhelming retweets and favorites? (1 and 2, respectively)
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Re:Uber’s Most Important Innovation Is a Pricing Algorithm by slingerofwheat on Friday August 22, 2014 @04:27PM (#8213784)
I'm annoyed by the mentality that the number of retweets and favorites is a gauge for the validity of a claim.

Well, just gotta pay 5 bucks and get a thousand bots to retweet you then.

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Re:Uber’s Most Important Innovation Is a Pricing Algorithm by jlas on Friday August 22, 2014 @04:30PM (#8213799)
I guess one can ask if a tweet is a good measure of public perception in the first place.
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