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by paulpauper·10y ago·view on hn ↗
Businessinsider is a notorious click-bait aggregator, spinning minutia into hype.

Reminds be of the Uber California court report they hyped last year, which predictably didn't really anywhere http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/business/uber-contests-cal...

That was seven months ago and Uber didn't die as many predicted it would

Some people so badly want for this to be 2000 all over again they they have to make things up. They have to turn molehills into mountains.

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I skimmed through the article and it was pretty neutral. They didn't really try to paint Pinterest in a bad light.
> Some people so badly want for this to be 2000 all over again they they have to make things up.

Why do you think this is the case?

It's just human nature. Misery loves company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude