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Seriously. Elon Musk might be able to pull something off but that doesn't mean you can, because you're not Elon Musk. Spez saw Musk do a thing and tried to copy him, only to find out that he isn't Elon Musk.


The problem is that it's not working for Elon either, Elon is just insulated from bad decisions because he can pay for them.


Are you sure he can pay? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twit...


Refusing to pay your vendors is actually a surprisingly common (small) business strategy. Notice nobody else has shut them off yet, even GCP or their main office landlord.


Wasn't an eviction order just issued in relation to their Boulder office?


They weren't actually using that space, it's empty.


Translations briefly disappeared. I strongly suspect money wiring was involved in getting them back.


They're still gone for me, but only maybe 75% of the time, so I suspect a bug that nobody has tried to fix.

(Especially because the way it fails involves a "(null)" string being returned instead of the translation.)


Even Elon is struggling to pull this off!




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