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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by lapcat on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:26AM (#31409473)
> You can offer to buy a house knowing full well there are going to be problems which will show up in the surveyor's report. You can then adjust your offer accordingly.

I think you mean home inspector, not surveyor?

Problems:

1) The home inspection contingency has to be in the offer.

2) The buyer has to hire a professional, independent home inspector. You can't just send in anyone and make up stuff.

3) The seller has the opportunity to remedy any problems that arise in the inspection report. So in this case, by analogy, Twitter could do a mass purge of accounts under looser criteria than usual, taking out a bunch of spammers and likely a bunch of innocent accounts at the same time. Then the deal would still have to go through at the original price.

In home buying, I've never heard of anyone taking this strategy you're suggesting. It would be reckless and probably not work as you hoped. Once an offer is accepted by the seller, it's very hard to get out. If you suspect there are significant problems with the house that need repair, and the seller knows there are significant problems, it would be extremely extremely dumb to make a higher offer than you'd pay, hoping the home inspection will save you.

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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by dazc on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:30AM (#31420137)
I am in the UK, where my analogy would be valid, you do get a surveyor's report and you can back out. I accept your system is different and, likely, a whole lot better.
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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by lapcat on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:29AM (#31421458)
> I accept your system is different and, likely, a whole lot better.

Haha, no, our system is likely worse.

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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by MrMan on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:40AM (#31409649)
why are you two taking about home buying? Mergers and Acquisitions cant be done by analogy.
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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by lapcat on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:43AM (#31409676)
This is rather bizarre reply to me, because I myself was replying to someone who made the analogy with home buying, and I was trying to explain how the analogy didn't even work.

To make an analogy, it's like if I asked you why you're talking about home buying. ;-)

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Re:Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44B Deal to ... by dazc on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:32AM (#31420148)
I think he was replying to both of us. And yes, maybe, the analogy wasn't great.
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