The reason nobody believes Tesla fanatics (and are instead shorting the stock) is that they don't have a fucking clue about basic things like cash flow.
you'll see a line of Mercedes cars waiting to get into the service area [...] needs to be frequently brought in for fixing
I own a mercedes car. I bought it second hand, several years ago.
It gets love and attention from the service team several times a year. There's the annual or mileage service, there's the Government mandated MOT, there's the way I abuse the tyres and brakes. This year there was the fuck-off big pothole I hit in France that buckled a wheel.
Mercedes sell a lot of cars. Why the fuck would anything I've mentioned above, multiplied by the number of cars they sell, lead you to assume that they're in need of frequent fixing?
Bullshit. There are 7 companies on the planet that can pull $230m out of their liquid assets and not notice it, and even they can only do that because they don't treat it as 'nothing'.
I'd agree with Seth. That the shredder was built into the frame is convincing evidence that this was always part of the piece itself, just a part that hadn't previously revealed itself.
I'm curious who the seller was, and how it was considered to be worth that much given it was just a print. That's dodgy as hell.
Fairly it's worth that much now though, just on notoriety as well as the artist's name and reputation.
That's because you can't be trusted to not break anything, to not expose the organisation to unacceptable levels of risk, to obey the law or to have the competence to even know what you want or need.
Of course, that doesn't describe you as an individual at all. However, those things are all true at a population level, and that's where the policies have to be set.
It's why I make sure an explicit part of my role is testing new tools and software, for which I require local admin access, and damn well give it to me.
(Of course, these days the response is "Spin up a VM" but I'm good at arguing around that too.)
Find out who runs the desktop team, find out who their best person is, and go on a charm offensive. Skip the formal channels, subvert the system and get your job done effectively. They'll appreciate having access to a competent designer too.
Modern business focussed data tools tend to support R these days too. It's recognised as a powerful and useful language for people that work with data, even if they're not in what's traditionally been considered an IT role.
(It is fun to just run a line of sed/awk/grep that gives them the answer instantly, but sometimes that is just being a jerk.)
Unless you're using those daily you end up spending more time looking up the syntax and reminding yourself how to use them than just shoving the thing in excel.
Plus, people can understand excel. You can show them the exact traceability from a->b->c->d and how you incorporated three other comparable data streams to produce e. It's interactively debuggable, and trivial to update.
That said, I tend to use it for one-off activities rather than repeatable processes, and if something needs VBA support then just fucking program it properly to start.
They have a team full of sales professionals, recruitment specialists, accountants or process optimisation monkeys.
Not an SQL professional in sight. Why would they invest scarce team budget in hiring one when every single person they employ already knows how to use Excel?
Excel is not a technology choice. It's a business one.
Not to mention that it's going to take them four hours to explain to you why they're doing it and what the data means.
Shit, businesses are moving away from traditional databases, especially in the Excel sweetspot: Finance. They don't want or like Excel, but they also know it's a fuck of a lot better than a seven month wait for IT to deliver something worse. Instead they're going for self-service data presentation and exploration tools that let them perform big data style processing using desktop tools and accountants.
Want to get someone off excel, stop looking at data and start looking at their business needs. Meet those, and fuck the data.
Pattern 1 : no heartbeat, instant jump to moderate heartbeat, gradual boost to high heartbeat, slow decline in heartbeat back to moderate levels, instant cessation of heartbeat.
Pattern 2 : moderate heartbeat since daybreak, instant jump to high heartbeat, rapid decline in heartbeat that continues down to no heartbeat.
One of these matches someone wearing a fitbit just for exercise.
No. I got pissed off. A professional isn't going to fucking help with that.
It's possible to get pissed off and show minimal to no signs of this to others. That doesn't mean you're not pissed off, and it sure as fuck doesn't mean some cunt should be allowed to go around pissing you off.
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Surely it has volume and mute controls on the steering wheel? That's been pretty standard on any car for over a decade.
That screen is high up, easy to reach and right in your field of view when you're looking at the road before you
What if I want to look at the road and surroundings, and no the screen blocking my view?
My model 3 was $50K
Lets see, a Model 3 is $35k, plus:
battery upgrade - $9k
premium interior - $5k
paint & wheels - $1.5k
enhanced autopilot - $5k
'full self drive' - $3k (yeah, good fucking luck on that)
Ah, ok. You appear to have gone for the cheap model. Hey, that's fine, people make their own compromi.. Oh, wait.
Can you buy a cheaper Camry? Sure, if you're a punk ass bitch.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/... tells me that the model 3 isn't yet rated.
What's your fucking source?
Amazon has been 'cash flow negative' for a decade
The reason nobody believes Tesla fanatics (and are instead shorting the stock) is that they don't have a fucking clue about basic things like cash flow.
Amazon's cash flow in
2013: + $2bn
2014: + $2bn
2015: + $7bn
2016: + $9bn
2017: + $6bn
In other words, Amazon could fund all of Tesla's annual costs and investments without taking out a loan.
don't invest in Tesla
Finally we agree.
Evidence suggests that police body cameras result in better behaviour from the police and from the police with whom they're interacting.
Something that simple that reduces violence during an arrest is surely a good thing for everybody.
you'll see a line of Mercedes cars waiting to get into the service area
[...]
needs to be frequently brought in for fixing
I own a mercedes car. I bought it second hand, several years ago.
It gets love and attention from the service team several times a year. There's the annual or mileage service, there's the Government mandated MOT, there's the way I abuse the tyres and brakes. This year there was the fuck-off big pothole I hit in France that buckled a wheel.
Mercedes sell a lot of cars. Why the fuck would anything I've mentioned above, multiplied by the number of cars they sell, lead you to assume that they're in need of frequent fixing?
Your logic is flawed.
$230M is nothing.
Bullshit. There are 7 companies on the planet that can pull $230m out of their liquid assets and not notice it, and even they can only do that because they don't treat it as 'nothing'.
The paper is shredded just as the artist intended
That's the bit that impressed me. Damn thing actually worked. He should go into business selling shredders.
I'd agree with Seth. That the shredder was built into the frame is convincing evidence that this was always part of the piece itself, just a part that hadn't previously revealed itself.
I'm curious who the seller was, and how it was considered to be worth that much given it was just a print. That's dodgy as hell.
Fairly it's worth that much now though, just on notoriety as well as the artist's name and reputation.
Ten year olds don't use wit, insight and anti-establishmentarian street art in the way that Banksy does.
That this stencilled image is in itself trivial disregards the broader oeuvre it represents and from which its value derives.
I'd have paid a tenner for it. I wouldn't pay a tenner for a picture from a ten year old.
Walk into their office, ask, "You guys have a box of spare cables anywhere?"
Walk out with a cable.
That's because you can't be trusted to not break anything, to not expose the organisation to unacceptable levels of risk, to obey the law or to have the competence to even know what you want or need.
Of course, that doesn't describe you as an individual at all. However, those things are all true at a population level, and that's where the policies have to be set.
It's why I make sure an explicit part of my role is testing new tools and software, for which I require local admin access, and damn well give it to me.
(Of course, these days the response is "Spin up a VM" but I'm good at arguing around that too.)
Find out who runs the desktop team, find out who their best person is, and go on a charm offensive. Skip the formal channels, subvert the system and get your job done effectively. They'll appreciate having access to a competent designer too.
Modern business focussed data tools tend to support R these days too. It's recognised as a powerful and useful language for people that work with data, even if they're not in what's traditionally been considered an IT role.
(It is fun to just run a line of sed/awk/grep that gives them the answer instantly, but sometimes that is just being a jerk.)
Unless you're using those daily you end up spending more time looking up the syntax and reminding yourself how to use them than just shoving the thing in excel.
Plus, people can understand excel. You can show them the exact traceability from a->b->c->d and how you incorporated three other comparable data streams to produce e. It's interactively debuggable, and trivial to update.
That said, I tend to use it for one-off activities rather than repeatable processes, and if something needs VBA support then just fucking program it properly to start.
Let the professionals write the SQL.
They have a team full of sales professionals, recruitment specialists, accountants or process optimisation monkeys.
Not an SQL professional in sight. Why would they invest scarce team budget in hiring one when every single person they employ already knows how to use Excel?
Excel is not a technology choice. It's a business one.
Not to mention that it's going to take them four hours to explain to you why they're doing it and what the data means.
Shit, businesses are moving away from traditional databases, especially in the Excel sweetspot: Finance. They don't want or like Excel, but they also know it's a fuck of a lot better than a seven month wait for IT to deliver something worse. Instead they're going for self-service data presentation and exploration tools that let them perform big data style processing using desktop tools and accountants.
Want to get someone off excel, stop looking at data and start looking at their business needs. Meet those, and fuck the data.
So replace it with something better.
It's ok, we'll wait.
Umm,. no. A 1:1 ratio would be 1 gram per millilitre.
Being pissed off without showing any external signs isn't an anger issue, and isn't going to cause harm to others.
Recognising that you're pissed off is in fact a good thing. Everybody gets pissed off, just that some of us are better at hiding it.
Sure, all those foreign trillion dollar companies out there. You fuckwit.
There's only one country that has done "stuff like this"
Is there fuck.
But hey, have some evidence: https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
The US engages in commercial and industrial espionage at least as much as anybody else.
Pattern 1 : no heartbeat, instant jump to moderate heartbeat, gradual boost to high heartbeat, slow decline in heartbeat back to moderate levels, instant cessation of heartbeat.
Pattern 2 : moderate heartbeat since daybreak, instant jump to high heartbeat, rapid decline in heartbeat that continues down to no heartbeat.
One of these matches someone wearing a fitbit just for exercise.
Whether a laceration occurred before or after death is one of the easier things for a pathologist to determine.
Yes. My old PC consistently and repeatedly failed to correctly tell the time, despite using NTP to try and keep it accurate.
Played havoc with HTTPS and file timestamps.
Did you get your pistol? Throw something?
No. I got pissed off. A professional isn't going to fucking help with that.
It's possible to get pissed off and show minimal to no signs of this to others. That doesn't mean you're not pissed off, and it sure as fuck doesn't mean some cunt should be allowed to go around pissing you off.