they captured the "niche wiki" market as wikia, then rebranded and started serving shittons of ads. the vim wiki is unusable these days because it runs like ass and looks like a gamer rgb nightmare
it's not that they are "correct", it's that they are a close enough approximation to work well enough at the scale they're used. it's not like the universe runs on math.
i like how you've managed to include just a single non-procedural language, and it's the most interesting one by far, and you're calling it obsolete. says a lot.
I'm no accountant but surely if they were being profitable it would sound better to say something like "We've remained profitable throughout and our earnings per quarter are on par if not greater than before."?
no, because profitability isn't the key figure they are interested in. it's growth. i recently got fired because of disappointing growth; e.g. the increase in profitability was not as large as they expected. which means they still made more money than last year.
this is why expenditures get relegated to "externality" status; because otherwise projections would make it look like a company can not grow infinitely large, and surely that's not true
i'm just thinking of how much personal information they would need to collect for this to be anywhere near working.