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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by bnjms on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:47AM (#33702488)
Why is that possible or legal? It feels like a loan for purchase of a company necessarily should belong to the purchasers of the company and be paid by the sale of the equity they bought or profit. This way just feels… rigged.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by pooper on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:02AM (#33702568)
You might enjoy this book if you haven't read it already

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by emodendroket on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:55AM (#33702893)
They are paying for the privilege of the direction of their wise new overlords, I suppose.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by kergonath on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:10AM (#33702969)
> This way just feels… rigged.

Well, yeah. Like the rest of the financial system.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by fatneckbeardz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:48AM (#33703931)
because libertarians took over the government in about 1980 , thats when this stuff really got going.
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