Uber CEO's mother dies in boating accident

All: there have already been perhaps a dozen submissions of this story, but not everything community members want to discuss is on topic. HN's mandate is to gratify intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Does this story do that? or is it rather some other form of curiosity that it gratifies? Surely the latter, so this is an opportunity for us all to distinguish what kind of site HN is.

There is a second reason. Uber has become so controversial that it is impossible for it to be mentioned on HN without the thread filling up with angry comments against both it and its CEO. The idea of that happening in a thread about someone's mother's death is pretty nauseating. Yet it would happen, not because any HN user is so bad that they'd do such a thing intentionally (in person, say), but because internet forum threads are a crude instrument that cannot be guided with any delicacy.

Therefore the users flagging this story are right to do so and it should not have a place here.