[waterlesscloud]

I think their post (also now deleted) inferring a connection between welfare checks and spikes in prostitution might have been even more cringey.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195709/http://blog.uber....

Note that both of these posts had been up for years and only disappeared in the last few days.

[karissa]

even more cringey is the original title of the post which you can see in the url:

"uberdata-how-prostitution-and-alcohol-make-uber-better/"

[JeremyMorgan]

Someone signed up at reputation.com

[bmm6o]

What's strange to me about that one is the results aren't drawn from Uber data at all. It's just crime statistics broken down by day.

[wtbob]

Cringey, or true?

[potatolicious]

It can be both, like the annoying coworker who won't shut up about how much sex he had over the weekend, or the guy who raves about his favorite scotch at an AA meeting.

A correct observation does not shield it from being inappropriate or in poor taste.