vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
All in all I think every one can agree that the patent/copyright system needs serious overhaul, and not because it is too weak, but it is because it was designed, and implemented in a 20th century mindset, not a 21st. It worked somewhat well in the early 1900's but since then it has not. Things move at a faster rate now than they did then. As such in this day in age it is a lot stronger than it needs to be, and needs to be dialed back in a lot of areas. It needs to be overhauled by people who know the area well, and have no financial stake in the system one way or the other. Possibly people in academia with knowledge on the system and can offer valid arguments for it's change, and help to bring in common sense reforms to the system. With how fucked up it is now, it would probably be best to just scrap the system, and design a new system from the ground up. All currently held patents now have a 7 year life span. If the patent is not in current use, you have a year to show that you are working toward using the patent, rather than just shelving it so no one else can use it.
That's a serious threat, a lot of people keep saying this but the Chinese are really the ones who need us.  Their economy is a house of cards, based on an ever worse and more corrupt version  of the Japanese 70-80s model, and their trade is the only thing injecting enough money into the system to barely pay for the government to prop up all of its important industries. Unfortunately their trade demands the US Dollar/debt to manipulate their currency to stay cheap. To lose access to US finances is more or less an existential threat to China. On the other hand the US really could find replacements or live without whatever we lose from Chinese trade. For this specific nunber, I don't know how he came to it, but Peter Zeihan says the US' GDP from trade is only about 14%, and only about 4% when you discount NAFTA and energy imports.
I guess Bitcoin are not that popular yet and hence there are no specific regulations. If currently it gets debated, it would be treated more like a Pre-Paid card or your Paypal account. As you have already paid taxes on the $$ you used to buy the Bitcoins there is no tax obligation as long as you keep using it to buy something else. The other way to look at it is as a commodity. If you have purchased a commodity and it has appreciated in value in future you may be liable to pay tax on the appreciated value. Think of it as a if you bought a house with the $$ and sold it later.   Once more serious trade starts happening, the governments around the world would bring in regulations. Till then there is nothing to worry about.
There are federal regulations that state that: As a result it can be assumed that when a loan is paid off, notification should be given to the borrower. There is not a penalty since schools are pretty good about recovering their money. It could be due to a simple human error or glitch in the system. I would email them again confirming that your Perkins Loan had been paid in full, just so you have documentation of it.
The idea was to not make the same mistake Meredith Whitney did. You don't have to agree with me but I'm also not going to slap a specific date on it.  Calling out structural flaws is one thing, and trying to put an exact date onto it is another exercise entirely.   It's like pointing out the financial jeopardy the US government is in. At the current rate of debt increase we've been seeing we're guaranteed to face massive inflation eventually. The only way to stop this from happening is to have a fundamental mindset shift in Congress. *But* I'm not about to attach a date onto when this will happen because there are just too many variables for me to figure out when it's going to happen.  Like I said earlier, Whitney's only mistake was to slap a date onto her call.
"Ok, so I know we have to agree up to at least point 4, as those are indisputable facts.  Point 5 requires no agreement, government always recommends more government as a solution.  So I must conclude you disagree with loosening FDA rules as a consequence.  But at the same time, you decry ""loophole shit"" by big pharma?  Teva WANTS to come to market with a cheap alternative, and they were PREVENTED by government for stupid reasons.  You can't have your cake and eat it too.  Why would you, a pharmacist of all people, support a government entity that imposes financial hardship on your customers for no reason?  Epinephrine can be bought for $2 per vial and there's nothing special about an autoinjector.  Eliminate the regulations and everybody can afford Epipens."
Go back something like 3-4 months among your account statements, do a quick categorization for each line on your account statements into one of these categories, and then sum them up per category and per month. Calculate the monthly average for each category. That's your starting point: the budget you've been living by (intentionally or not). After that, you can decide how you want to allocate the money, and perhaps dig a bit more deeply into some specific category. Turns out you are spending a lot of money on transportation which you didn't expect? Look more closely at those line items and see if there's something you can cut. Are you spending more money at the grocery store than you thought? Then look more closely at that. And so on. Once you know where you are and where you want to be (such as for example bumping the savings category by $200 per month), you can adjust your budget to take you closer to your goals. Chances are you won't realistically be able to do an about-face turn on the spot, but you can try to reduce some discretionary category by, say, 10% each month, and transfer that into savings instead. That way, in 6-7 months, you have cut that category in half."
"Sorry for the late reply.  &gt; Different ERP systems have different mappings, but there are no unlimited amount of ERP systems.  It's actually close to unlimited. Reasons:  1. Even if two customers use the same ERP system, each implement their ERP in a different way.  2. Even if they implement the ERP system exactly the same way, the EDI is done by an EDI subsystem and each customer will implement EDI in a different way.  3. Even if it's the same EDI system and map, each customer may have different meaning to the same data field. For example, one customer definition for Due Date is ""the date the Vendor needs to ship the goods to me"" while the other customer says ""it's the date I want the goods delivered to my warehouse.""  4. Even if all the fields have the exact same definition, the values may be different between the 2 customers. Classic example: while customer A use SKU# ""1234"" for a certain widget made by the vendor, the other customer may use SKU# ""9876"".  5. It's even worse than you think: if say a huge company like Wal-Mart implemented EDI orders in its specific way, Wal-Mart has 100,000 suppliers, so each of those suppliers have to implement the Wal-Mart way of EDI orders.  6. Even worse: when Wal-Mart make a change to their EDI orders (e.g. add a new type of data), 100,000 suppliers have to change their system support the new data requirements.  **Do me a favor? I only addresses one statement you made. Can you cut-and-paste your whole message and post it again in /r/edi?** This is the right subreddit for this discussion. You should join it and several people can reply to you...  Thanks!"
There's no demand? Of course there's demand, demand is infinite in the sense that everyone wants things to make their lives better. Sure, maybe there are some people that have maxed out their credit and physically can't buy any more stuff, but they still need to buy food/clothes/housing. The problem is not a demand problem, it is a supply side problem. Central banks have over levered the system to a point where investors and entrepreneurs do not know what the govt is going to do next to try to fix it. Is there a huge tax increase on the horizon? Is more reactionary legislation going to be passed? Many established businesses have a hard enough time keeping up with the regulations that are already on the books, and in many industries such as the financial industry, it is physically impossible to get through an audit without paying fines for doing something wrong, because no one can follow every single rule theyve written. So yes, the regulatory environment is far more uncertain than it was even a decade ago, let alone 30 or 40 years ago.
"&gt; That's not a taxi regulation, that's just a driving regulation: all vehicles must be insured. Are you saying that Uber/Lyft aren't even following the laws of the road? When you're driving to a call, you're working as a cab driver, or if you don't like that label, you're operating a commercial vehicle. Regular car insurance does not cover operating a vehicle for the purposes of transporting people, a.k.a. driving a taxi. There is special insurance for taxi companies because they have much higher liability and likelihood of being in an accident, thus the premiums are higher. Uber/Lyft drivers do not have this type of insurance individually, but Uber/Lyft each have a ""$1m insurance policy"" in case their drivers are in accidents **when they are loaded**. It doesn't cover them between calls. When an Uber/Lyft driver gets in an accident between calls, their insurance isn't going to cover it because they were operating a taxi, or a vehicle that transports people for money. Their insurance will drop their policy, and they will be liable for the damages, which they likely won't be able to pay out of pocket or they wouldn't be driving for Uber/Lyft in the first place. &gt; Taxi regulations actually allow red-lining by restricting service areas: ""sorry, I don't go to x town - I'm only licensed for y town."" Even with the regulations, taxis do it anyway. That's why they ask for your destination before they give you an ETA on pickup You have no idea what red-lining is. &gt; Rate-setting isn't a good thing. Yes, it is actually. It keeps the prices stable and manageable. Without prices would drastically increase, which seems to be a big complaint in this thread. &gt; Yep. The taxi regulations should largely be repealed: they've outlived their usefulness Again, you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. Many cities have tried to deregulate their cab industries and all but one in the US has returned to some form of regulation.
Just a thought because this is a really good question: Would the buying and selling of blockchain based digital currency,   using other blockchain based digital currencies, be subject to like   kind treatment and exempt from capital gains until exchanged for a   non-blockchain based good or service (or national currency) Suppose someone sells 1 bitcoin to buy 100 monero.  Monero's price and bitcoin's price then change to where the 100 monero are 3 bitcoins.  The person gets their bitcoin back and has 66.67 monero remaining. This scenario could be: Suppose someone sells 1 bitcoin at $1000 to buy 100 monero at $10.  Bitcoin crashes 80% to $200 while monero crashes to only $6 per monero.  $6 times 100 is $600 and if the person gets their bitcoin back (at $200 per bitcoi), they still lost money when measured in US Dollars if they move that bitcoin back to US dollars. In reading the IRS on bitcoin, they only care about the US dollar value of bitcoin or monero and in this example, the US dollar value is less.  The person may have more bitcoins, but they still lost money if they sell.
Meanwhile, Europe has put into place much more stringent regulations based on the Precautionary Principle, which requires that chemical industry prove some chemicals are safe to get them approved, while the US the key issue is overcoming lobbyists and even chemicals which are clearly dangerous have to go through a lot of hoops before they are regulated, and even when its shown to be extremely likely they are dangerous, it is very difficult when lobbyists are there often regulators are political appointees from the industries they are supposed to regulate. There is no denying that having different regulations is complicated, but what they are promoting as a solution is not a good approach. They are pushing for what they call regulatory coherence- which is basically the forcing of all environmental and chemical laws in a bunch of countries [into the same mold](http://www.ciel.org/Publications/ToxicPartnership_Mar2014.pdf). It would overrule a lot of state laws involving things like fracking..and food safety - Instead of raising our standards to the European level, they want to bring theirs down, and get rid of the (IMO, quite prudent) Precautionary Principle, which I think is incredibly stupid. But, people are not aware of this. There- I think has clearly been a high level decision - some kind of gentlemans agreement between the 5 media corporations that control virtually all US media, to never cover some issues. To not cover those issues at all. But in Europe they have a similar problem, just not quite as bad. But there people make more of an effort to find out whats really happening. Also there are fewer astroturfers. (the US is known for massive levels of astroturfing in its online world) For example, in the UK, there is a lot of protesting because of the implicit goal of the FTAs is to privatize public services, although they deny it, its right there [in agreements like GATS](http://www.iatp.org/files/GATS_and_Public_Service_Systems.htm), framing public services as bad, some kind of theft from companies, and ratcheting any small privatization into a permanent entitlement for that company to that market so its permanent, even if its unsuccessful.
Money is created as debt in our society. At the risk of over-simplifying things again, let's say Bank A has $1000 in assets. In the fractional reserve system (our current system), Bank A can lend out many times over that amount. Let's say $9,000, for a total of $10,000 (much more in reality). And of course, it lends that money at interest. When bank A has made $10,000 available through 10% interest loans, the total amount of money has increased by $10,000, but when the loans are paid back, $11,000 must be paid to the bank, so the net result of the operation is that $1,000 get taken out of the market. This system explains why almost all companies and governments have huge debts, and why most of the world's large companies belong to financial institutions of some kind, and why most of the world's wealth rest in very very few hands. To fully answer your question and provide details and references and names, one would have to write a book or 5. There is a lot more than can be said on the subject, and of course, all the examples given here are extremely simplified, but I think they illustrate the key issues pretty well. Bottom-line is that our system is designed that way. Our economic system is rigged and the delta bleeds out on automatic."
Well you would have to take into account 2 things. 1 the taxes and regulations that fossil fuel industries face relative to renewables. 2. subsidies as a percent of fossil fuel industry compared to subsidies as a percent of green energy companies. My hunch is that both of these points show that overall, the fossil fuel industry isn't benefiting from the government and renewable companies are benefiting
Like in the US, more flexibility is extended to hidden orders. Australia has taken an aggressive approach to hidden orders in the direction of lower ticks. Aussies have a rich financial that evolved differently than the Dutch custom more familiarly known in the UK and US. They, like Chicago evolved out of commodities trade rather than trade.  When commodities are worth nearly nothing per unit, larger precision comes naturally. For the Dutch, it was the opposite.  A single ship would trade in 1/64 share or for the largest vessels, 1/128 share.  Here, there's no point to high precision.  New York, founded by the Dutch specialized in logistics just the same.   To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, so both Chicago, Australia, and other financial systems built by commodities rather than trade have extended the higher precision logic to everything else, and pricing is fantastic. It should not be a surprise why Australia has taken a lead in pushing infinite precision.
Fair enough. If you have specific milestones to hit, you gotta hit them. My recommendation is just to make sure you have a specific plan based on what has worked for your peers. Don't let recruiting just happen to you, drive it in your own chosen route. Best of luck in the coming recruiting cycle!
The best way is to approach your bank and fill out a transfer form to send USD to your US account (if you are visiting India). They will require quite a number of proof (AADHAR, PAN, Passport) copies.  Otherwise speak to your bank about how to do a wire transfer from your India A/C to US; after de-moitization regulations have tightened, the best course of action would be to speak to your bank directly.
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AI isn't just a thing you plug in and let it take over. Their not all created equal and different groups are making different things. Also different groups make differing qualities of AI. Take this example, all phone based gps is the not the same. Google, apple's, Microsoft's, Tom Tom's, waze's (owned by Google), etc. All use the same roads and same GPS system so they should be right? We no since some use the same initial data while others have their own cars to take pictures of the streets and their own imaging satellites (Google). They all have different user interfaces, different algorithms, different map storage, behave differently when cell/gps signal goes out, handle traffic differently. Some use time of day and day of week to give better directions and arrival ETAs based on history. Some use information from other phones to improve the system. These are all different kinds of AI used in something we think of a simple task of navigation.
Don't forget that government institutions like the HHS and CDC have pushed vaccinations and outbreak responses to effectively eradicate nasty diseases like smallpox, polio, and malaria. &gt; Being able to turn on and off electricity with a switch. Electricity has been recognized as a [public good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good) and those companies are strongly regulated. The transmission lines that bring power to your house are required to be open so one power company does not have a monopoly on supplying your house power. Are air is no longer choked with soot because of the EPA and the DOE monitors and regulates nuclear waste. &gt; Make a pot of coffee right at your kitchen counter top. Coffee is imported from South American or African countries thanks to US trade agreements and is safe because of the FDA. Your coffee maker was probably made in China but doesn't burn your house down because the manufacturer is required to follow regulations from the CPSC and if there is a problem you can do something about it thanks to the FTC and/or court system. &gt; And if the government can get the hell out of our way, we can continue to improve the quality of life like we have been for hundreds of years now in this country. The quality of life in the US has been improving in the US for hundreds of years BECAUSE OF government. A capitalistic market is important too but free market principles exist today in Somalia but their lives still suck. The reason is that they are missing a strong central government to fill in the gaps, keep the playing field somewhat fair, and, yes, make a few demands of its citizens in exchange. I hope you're having a great weekend.
This 'social contract' you speak of is rooted in theft. If you disagree with how taxes are spent, and do not participate in the tax system, then you will be stripped of your savings and property and will be sent to prison. It just seems like such a barbaric and archaic way to operate society to me.  And actually, many Americans *have* increasingly been renouncing their US citizenship and moving to other parts of the world. It's mostly because of increased business regulations and the endless War on Terror.