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oogali
on Oct 17, 2022
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Live Counter of Uber's Net Losses ($27B and Counti...
The font should be red and the number prefixed with a hyphen.
bdsa
on Oct 17, 2022
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Is a loss presented as -X a gain? (double negative)
smcl
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I don't think people would interpret it that way, especially if it was red. But maybe surrounding the value in parentheses is a more unambiguous way to denote "this figure indicates a loss" but I'm not sure how well-known that is
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