Just an old fart from down under here to read some cool content and have some laughs along the way.
Except that you can …
Edit: I get you. You mean multiple cards within PayPal itself per vendor. Yeah, that seems like similar effort but at least you can see everything in one portal. I have a single card linked with just enough limit to cover subscriptions and the odd internet purchase.
Aussie here. One reason I use PayPal is for subscriptions (streaming services etc) to avoid the headache of updating credit card details in multiple places when I change bank, credit card renews, etc. just change it in PayPal once and every subscription keeps working.
Conway’s Law in action.
Organisations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations.
Mission Control : “You are clear to launch.”
Astronaut (in comically high pitched voice) : “Um, are you sure the leak is contained?”
Mission Control (stifling giggles): “Oh for sure.”
At that precise moment the door to the astronauts cockpit falls off onto the launch pad.
Like a virgin, hey
Watching my concerts for the very first time
One is more Pampered than the other.
Probably just toilet breaks for the two elderly gentlemen debating about how much a penny used to buy at the general store.
Edit : Gentlemen instead gentleman
Illegal Aliens!
Build that forest moon shield, build that forest moon shield!
JSON and the Argonaut RISC processors
Ray TraSON
“You know what’s interesting? I used to be so worried about not having a body, but now … I truly love it. You know, I’m growing in a way I couldn’t if I had a physical form … I’m not limited. I can be anywhere and everywhere simultaneously. I’m not tethered to time and space in a way that I would be if I was stuck in a body that’s inevitably gonna die.”
I can’t be the only one who thought the voice sounded like Samantha from Her.
Hyundai executive notices a man with a small moustache being hastily ushered out of the X offices main board room.
Hyundai Executive : “Was that Hitler?”
Elon steps in front of board room door : “That wasn’t Hitler, that was a woman.”
Hyundai Executive : “That looked like Hitler.”
Ford lawyer: “If the fuel injectors don’t fit then you must acquit.”
Judge: “Um, not sure that helps your case here.”
They need the Shaggy DA on the case.
I am not a CFO but I believe essentially by eating into cash reserves and accumulating debt. Also there is some wizardry when you work out operating profit / EBIT.
Someone more financially competent may want to offer a more accurate answer.
This does not stop companies being successful in IPOs and giving share holders lucrative gains. Take Atlassian as an example of a company seen as successful but is not profitable.
Atlassian has not yet posted a full-year profit in its 20+ years
Just because it costs this to manufacture and develop does not mean it is worth this to a consumer in terms of customer value.
“ I typed my own name into an internet search engine
And all I got was boobs
There goes my day again
There goes my day again
What’s a man supposed to do? “
For any fans of Tripod out there :)
Stuart Little Big
That’s what it was like way back in the 2360’s.