Engineer says Uber hired firm to investigate her | Hacker News Reader

Engineer says Uber hired firm to investigate her

theguardian.com

36 pointsscandox12 comments

What precisely is this a duplication of? I searched the link and didn't see it.

Not a dupe of the specific link, just the story: 110 comments @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13775624

hckrnews.com lets you browse the list of submitted stories more easily than news.ycombinator.com.

You can't really be blamed for not knowing that something was on news.ycombinator.com since looking at the list there is slow and painful. To find yesterday's story, I had to scroll down the page and click "More" about 6 or 7 times and on each listing, I had to hit F3 (find) to search for Uber.

This site doesn't even have a proper search function.

So, don't even worry about it because how can anybody expect you to know?

Why is this wrong - or is it? Seems like a pretty normal reaction to being attacked? Is it wrong because a woman's statements always have to be believed?

Some of her claims are objectively verifiable - e.g. women dropping from 25% to 3% of the SRE teams. That sounds like a serious, systematic problem - not a coincidence.

I'm not saying she is wrong, just asking why is it wrong to investigate her claims?

Although the numbers you cite are not really evidence of a problem imo - there could be any number of reasons. Assuming sexism is the only explanation is heavily biased.

Uber is a despisable company but to think the other big corps are not acting the same would be foolish. Uber is just not pretending that much as the others.

I am very scared of the future (which is already here) of mega corps

> I am very scared of the future (which is already here) of mega corps

Mega corps, to me are just continuations of previous entities like the Dutch and Anglo East India Companies which in their heyday exhibited much of the same activities (trying to control journalists, controlling politicians/legislators, moving perpetrators of crimes around in their organizations). Yes, I've been watching Taboo, a very interesting TV series about the Anglo East India Company. Then before them, were the large religious organizations. Some even to this day, still exhibit this pattern of investigating victims to find dirt or investigating journalists for the same reason. Example from last week, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3462087/Catholic-Chu...

I have to agree. This is business as usual. It is also our common business to act as a check on this kind of behaviour.

I wouldn't take Taboo as a historic account of what the east india company did. It's entertainment and not meant to be factually correct.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10743407/B...

I agree, I didn't intend to imply that it was in anyway historically accurate. However, it does communicate some of how the EIC operated at that time.

What you claim is very concerning and I do not wish to discount it but do you have any evidence?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com