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TFA title seems odd. Article sez Backblaze has responded to the claims of "sham accounting" and (indirectly) to the claims that "customers backsups [are] at risk", yet the title wording implies that the backups are at risk as a consequence of BB responding.


Maybe if we quote them symnmetrically the problem will go away?


Yeah, the extra quotes do help


Ambiguous but different semantic commas.

In one interpretation, it is a connective between two "claims" in a list.

In the other, it is a consequence of the response (as you interpreted).

This is worsened by the convention of putting punctuation inside quotation marks.


Not really - if they continue to lose the money that they are losing, then they could go bankrupt. If they never reach profitability, then the only other option is to keep borrowing/raising cash.




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