They had a very good reporting engine when OLAP was a new thing back in the early 2000s. A business model licensing software that actually delivered value to their customers. What a concept!

Now they are a Ponzi scheme dressed up as a company. Another indication how far the US has fallen that the SEC tolerates this kind of BS.

It's common in English too. The two OPs might be from a particular society that's allergic to multisyllabic words.

A corporation is a legal concept that lets a group of people own property and act together. Many people are expecting AI to replace corporations, especially in software development because one guy with an idea will be able to do what now requires a bunch of shareholders to pool their resources and hire a bunch of specialists.

And then we invented LLMs.

Inflation is not being treated as noise, if it were then we wouldn't index it away, we would just ignore it. The fact we are indexing it away is due to treating it as a real predictable trend.

However, the purpose of indexing it away is to normalize, due to the recognition that it's not the absolute prices that matter, only their relative relationships

Inflation is a flaw in the measuring instrument we're using (fiat currency), kind of like if you have a metallic ruler and you increase the ambient temperature, then the expansion will make the inch markings on the ruler be longer than an actual inch.

Your Streisand Effect definition is too narrow, imho. The issue isn't disclosure against the company's wishes, it's the increased awareness by the public arising from consequences of the company's initial policy choice of halting operations and service to the Russian public.

I rise to speak!

'Tis but risible, in the extreme!

Recently, even!

Yours in rice,

Rhys

Oh yeah? If you're so Canadadian, where's your accent, eh?

(not disagreeing)

No, you see, it's an emergency. The US is being invaded and the president is using his legally granted emergency powers to shake down, er, regulate the flow of trade to China. And deploy the US military against American citizens in American cities. And conduct extrajudicial murder.

No one should express concerns about the environment unless they themselves live fully off-grid, is the most asinine opinion I've read all day.

Excellent! Since you're posting on Slashdot you are clearly not "fully off-grid." Therefore you can't complain about the PCB dump we're putting in your neighbourhood.

So in essence this boosts their stock price by making them look more profitable than they are.

Sure it does. Any serious investor is going to look at their basic financial statement, not to mention the numerous articles written on the subject, and make an informed decision.

The rest aren't going to give a shit what their profits are. Most of them think revenue is profit anyway.

Disability has moved from a verified medical condition that presents with obstacles, to, I feel sad because I do, and therefore, I need the red carpet treatment.

What does it take to be diagnosed with ADHD or ADD? Nothing, there is no hard diagnosed line you have to pass. You don't need an MRI, or fMRI, you can claim you are ADHD or ADD, and almost no doctor will push back. It's one of the holy grails for the lazy and self-entitled. “Occasionally, my mind wonders doc!”, “Oh, well, you certainly have advanced ADHD, better get you on meds and write an IEP for you, this is dire.”

What does it take to be diagnosed Autistic? Again, nothing, you don't like the sound of your disgusting classmates chewing food with their mouth open, you have autism because that bothers you. You would rather not acknowledge reasonable social norms, like waiting until people are done talking, oh boy, you have advanced autism.

Depression / anxiety, triggers, everything is basically an excuse for being a reasonable human. The more left leaning you are, or were told you should be by your parents, the more likely you have these imaginary conditions.

I know one woman who claimed ADHD and autism, was told she did not have them by a doctor. She then paid thousands of dollars to get privately tested, and the results proved she did not have either condition. She still claims both, and blames the doctor and the test being incorrect, and says it's triggering. Does she have them? No, objectively not, she's just a boorish pig of a human, who is “woke”, and therefore thinks irresponsibility and a lack of accountability are the calling cards of greatness.

I hear all the time, “I have ADHD”, or “I'm autistic”, nope, you're irresponsible, lazy, lack accountability and never take ownership of your faults. How many times have you heard someone say: “I really want to sleep in on the weekends.” followed by “I feel so lazy for not getting anything done.”. You woke up at noon, and made non-stop excused on why nothing could get started, and then wonder why nothing got done. Whereas I got up at 6:00am, and got everything done by 11:30am, now can spend the rest of the day doing whatever I want.

Should we get into Ozempic craze? It's the same BS, you think your inability to control your diet, and get active is a disability which needs medication. If you just cut out the 9 rounds of dense carbs you had in the form of pasta, and sugar loaded dressing you pour like fountains over your “salad”, guess what might start happening? “I've tried dieting.”, no, no you didn't. You made a solid grain and carb meal plan, that was packed with dense energy, then, sat on your fat ass because you were too tired to do anything. Hell, I know people who claim: “I'm prediabetic.”, what? You don't have diabetes, so you require a diabetes medication for what? Cut the carbs, boost the protein, cut the fruit, which is just a sugar source, and either go into a calorie def, or, start lifting weights 3x week, and BAM, guess what "major disability" disappears.

Exactly! If I need kitchen stuff, like sponges, a strainer, drain plugs, that's where I go, and maybe for the odd Island Bar, which is a Bounty Bar knock off. I don't buy food, food there, but all the surrounding ones do have several isles of groceries, and you could buy a pantry full of items if you wanted. I'm not sure if they have milk, never noticed, but I don't buy food food. Maybe the odd bag of chips if I'm with my daughter, but again, it's for one-off things, at least for me.

Right, but that's not an excuse, since you could automate the tag changing automatically. How many times do you call into a customer service line and hear: "We're experiencing higher than normal call volume!", so often that if I said every time, the very rare exception is in the noise. You can't always have "higher than normal", that's not how averages work, in the same context: "We understaffed, slashed hours, misclassified employees, and stole labour, so it's their problem." doesn't work either. You hear this pass the buck style excuse all the time, and once you know the problem exists, you have a very short runway to fix it, and keep it mitigated.

Agreed.