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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by anecdotal1 on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:52PM (#33415075)
> Musk has precedent

The "has" makes it seem like it was a legal statement. It probably should be been worded differently

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by MikeTheGreat on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:01PM (#33415142)
Agreed. Perhaps something like

"...so that's a precedent that shows that Musk is willing/has done something like this"

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by agsnu on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:40AM (#33417778)
See https://ludwig.guru/s/has+precedent for a plenty of examples of using "has precedent" in non-legal contexts.
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