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Nick Denton’s incendiary publishing empire, Gawker Media, collapsed under the weight of his excessively cruel and cutting philosophy today, an outcome many pred
by current_call 10y ago
Nick Denton’s incendiary publishing empire, Gawker Media, collapsed under the weight of his excessively cruel and cutting philosophy today, an outcome many predicted, but that Denton miraculously dodged for a decade, as subjects chose to thicken their skin rather than get into protracted and destructive litigation, until Peter Thiel anonymously bankrolled them.
an outcome many predicted
If it wasn't an outcome that many stakeholders expected, it wasn't expected. Were there any people trying to cash out while the trial was happening?
- wutbrodo 10y agoThat quote is perhaps better understood as "something many thought would happen eventually". That doesn't mean they'd know which time in particular well enough to cash out. I (and many others) can predict with some certainty that the stock market will have a one-day drop of more than X% eventually. That doesn't mean I know when that will be well enough to "cash out".
- current_call 10y agoMy point is that "something many thought would happen eventually" doesn't contain any information.