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That sounds like a retroactive arse covering exercise.
by noir_lord 8y ago
That sounds like a retroactive arse covering exercise.
- MrEfficiency 8y agoI dont believe what comes out of Elon's mouth anymore. I take his words lightly at best.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y agoExactly my thoughts when reading this.
- yellowcherry 8y agoNo, it sounds like real life. Of course HN downvotes this. Dan Grossman earns a paycheck moderating this site. This is a culture he's literally paid to promote.
- yellowcherry 8y agoYou know what's really interesting? The people who pay Dan don't participate on this site. That's how awful the culture is here. That's how bad he is at setting the tone.
- minimaxir 8y agodang is not Dan Grossman.
- yellowcherry 8y agoSorry, you're right. It's Daniel Gackle who is personally responsible for the toxic Hacker News culture. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
- misja111 8y agoExactly. Reading closely, it seems that funding was not secured at all when Musk posted his Tweet. Also, I'm reading that major shareholders were not aware of the information that Musk was basing his Tweet on. I can imagine that they are not amused.
- sehugg 8y agoI guess the SEC prefers companies to make formal filings instead of tweets followed by FAQs to avoid this kind of confusion and subsequent litigation.
- mikedouglas 8y agoSpecifically the section on "funding secured". Any reasonable person would interpret that as Musk having a term sheet in hand. This sounds more like "funding potentially interested".
- dwighttk 8y agoEspecially since he later claimed: "Only reason why this is not certain is that it’s contingent on a shareholder vote."