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Comment by detaro | Hacker News Reader

Just because the company financial news is about has an app doesn't make it "tech". And here they're reporting direct, attributed statements, so it should be easy for you to explain what they "didn't understand".

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One of my pet peeves is that certain internet based companies are reported as "tech" and others aren't.

What's "tech" about Uber or AirBnb?

I think it is more appropriate to call them a software company. They both make software that facilitates real-world interactions.

I consider software companies to be "tech" companies, but alas.

I'm not going to waste my time reading anything from this garbage publication. After "The Big Hack" I realized that life was too short to read articles by sources that just make stuff up. If you want to waste your time, be my guest, but I'd rather not.

Then please don't waste your time commenting with sweeping general statements on all their submissions either. It's not like it's news for HN readers.

Why not? If someone posted something from the National Enquirer here I could point out that it's probably bullshit and should be ignored. Bloomberg is 100% exactly the same, they make up news as their source of business, and have been caught doing it many times, most recently in one of the biggest journalism scandals of 2018. So why could I call out National Enquirer here but not Bloomberg?

There's a big fuss over the SuperMicro story because it's notable that Bloomberg appears to have gotten it so badly wrong.

It would not be similarly notable for the National Enquirer to be caught making something up.

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