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0 pointswarrenm3y ago0 comments

it's not "spin" :)

they're haven't gone out of business, and show no signs of doing so for the foreseeable future :)

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lisasays3y ago· 3 in thread

You keep dialing back the definition of "fail" to mean "to go out of business."

In common usage its meaning is far broader -- it can also mean e.g. "to screw up spectacularly" (in a way that cost the company very significantly, even if it isn't forced out of business as a result).

warrenmOP3y ago

OP asked about a "company failing"

You're the one twisting that into a "a failure which may or may not have been recovered from" :)

lisasays3y ago

You can read it however you want.

But in that context, the meaning was clearly open-ended.

warrenmOP3y ago

I read it the way it's written: "have any notable companies failed"

Not "have any notable companies had a failure"

Big difference there, friend :)

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