<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CSMastermind</author><text>If I understand OP correctly then Uber is in fact making money, they just have some depreciating assets on their books.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like if your net wealth went down this year because your 401k declined.  That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean that you&amp;#x27;re broke or even poorly managing your finances.&lt;p&gt;You can have a positive cash flow (budgeting and living within your means) while still having your overall net worth decrease.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>As it turns out, if you ignore all of the ways it loses money, Uber makes money</text></item><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One must understand that &amp;quot;profit&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t always as rosy as it may seem, and &amp;quot;loss&amp;quot; sometimes isn&amp;#x27;t as bad. A company can show a lot of profit, but digging deep you&amp;#x27;ll realize that most of it is stuck in receivables. This wasn&amp;#x27;t really a bad year for Uber, they became Cash Flow Positive for the first time [1]. The reason for their loss was valuation decline of its stake in Didi and Grab [2].&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States, the earnings report said.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;aftermarket&amp;#x2F;uber-turns-cash-flow-positive-for-the-first-time&amp;#x2F;93300552&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;aftermarket&amp;#x2F;u...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gadgets360.com&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6-billion-grab-didi-aurora-2947840&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gadgets360.com&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Live Counter of Uber&apos;s Net Losses ($27B and Counting)</title><url>https://uberlosses.com</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yywwbbn</author><text>Berkshire Hathaway suffered an  30+ billion loss just because Apple’s stock price declined.&lt;p&gt;Neither company is losing money and both are highly cashflow positive.</text><parent_chain><item><author>alexb_</author><text>As it turns out, if you ignore all of the ways it loses money, Uber makes money</text></item><item><author>shubhamjain</author><text>One must understand that &amp;quot;profit&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t always as rosy as it may seem, and &amp;quot;loss&amp;quot; sometimes isn&amp;#x27;t as bad. A company can show a lot of profit, but digging deep you&amp;#x27;ll realize that most of it is stuck in receivables. This wasn&amp;#x27;t really a bad year for Uber, they became Cash Flow Positive for the first time [1]. The reason for their loss was valuation decline of its stake in Didi and Grab [2].&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The loss was due almost entirely to revaluation of its stakes in Grab and Didi in Asia and autonomous driving technology enterprise Aurora in the United States, the earnings report said.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;aftermarket&amp;#x2F;uber-turns-cash-flow-positive-for-the-first-time&amp;#x2F;93300552&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;aftermarket&amp;#x2F;u...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gadgets360.com&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6-billion-grab-didi-aurora-2947840&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gadgets360.com&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;uber-net-loss-q1-2022-usd-6...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Live Counter of Uber&apos;s Net Losses ($27B and Counting)</title><url>https://uberlosses.com</url></story>