vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
In the event that payment is not made by the due date on the invoice then the transaction is essentially null and void and you can sell the work to another client. For your particular situation I would strongly suggest that you implement a sales contract and agreement of original transfer of work of art for any and all future sales of your original works of art. In this contract you need to either enforce payment in full at time of signing or a deposit at signing with payment in full within (X) amount of days and upon delivery of item.  In your sales contract you will want to stipulate a late fee in the event that the client does not pay the balance by the date specified, and a clause that stipulates how long after the due date that you will hold the artwork before the client forfeiting deposit and losing rights to the work.   You will also want to specify an amount of time that you provide as a grace period in the event client changes their mind about the purchase, and you can make it zero grace period, making all sales final and upon signing of the agreement the client agrees to the terms and is locked into the sale. In which point if they back out they forfeit all deposits paid. I own a custom web design business and we implement a similar agreement for all works that we create for a client, requiring a 50% deposit in advance of work being started, an additional 25% at time of client accepting the design/layout and the final 25% at delivery of finished product.   In the event that a client fails to meet the requirements of the contract for the second or final installment payments the client forfeits all money paid and actually owes us 70% of total quoted project price for wasting our time. We have only had to enforce these stipulations on one client in 5 years! The benefit to you for requiring a deposit if payment is not made in full is that it ensures that the client is serious about purchasing the work because they have put money in the game rather than just their word of wanting to purchase. Think of it like putting earnest money down when you make an offer to buy a house. Hope this helps!
I'm old. When I was young, the schools were preparing us all for the Metric System. But the change never happened, due, I believe, to simple arrogance. Let the world cope with out 45/17th nuts and bolts.   Now of course, we're not so powerful and I do assume that American Toyota factories use metric parts.  I write this from a metric coffee house in Amsterdam. I am coping quite well with their products offered metrically.  Have a good day!
"&gt;First off the SEC is under-funded anyhow And insane homeless persons don't have a lot of operating capital, but that doesn't change the fact that they would not make good use of more capital if they had it. The SEC is a joke, a completely captured entity. &gt;I disagree. First off the SEC is under-funded anyhow, and most economists agree that there needs to be better regulation of the exchanges; ya know since it can fucking crash our economy and send us into WW3. They only have this power because the government gave it to them! If the government took away the titty, we'd see the financial services industry wither back to a reasonable size. &gt;Secondly, it's a flat Transaction tax much like any other State Sales Tax. State Sales Tax is arguably the most successful form of taxation there is, b/c it's so damn easy to implement, and so damn easy to audit. Sidestepping of course whether or not the states have any right to this sort of taxation in the first place. &gt;You're blowing this thing way out of proportion. They require the markets to charge a Transaction tax, and then they do periodic audits to ensure each exchange is doing it. Enron had periodic audits also, and it didn't mean a fucking thing. So did Lehman Brothers, and all the other crap piles. &gt;If you think that letting a market die and having new ones pop up periodically is a good idea then holy shit. ""If you think that letting a person die while new ones are born is a good idea then holy shit."" We evolve and improve through death and replacement. Use of force to avoid a natural death leads to massive distortions in our mutual reality. &gt;Financial markets need stability &amp; regulation. Finance doesn't like uncertainty. Markets need stability, stability is created by flexibility in response to changing conditions. Regulations reduce flexibility which creates instability.
"How can we have a capitalist legal system with regulations? Wouldn't a true capitalist system have no regulation, and therefore nothing for politicians to use to pressure corporations into ponying up some of that lobbying money?  You are arguing that a system with no regulation would somehow claw back regulation? that doesn't make any sense. Regulation exists in our social-democracy or corpratist system that we currently have, but you are conflating a capitalist system with the system we currently have, which is not capitalist (something like 40% of economic activity is from the government currently, I don't know how anyone could possibly consider that a ""free market"")"
The cause of incomplete/inaccurate financial data's appearing on free sites is that it is both complicated and expensive to obtain and parse these data. Even within a single country, different pieces of financial data are handled by different authorities.  In the US, for example, there is one generally recognized authority for stock prices and volumes (CQS), but a completely different authority for corporate earnings data (SEC).  For futures and options data the only authority is each individual exchange.  Each of these sources might have a vastly different interface to their data; some may have websites, others may have FTPs, others may have TCP datastreams to which you must subscribe, etc. Now throw in the rest of the world and all their exchanges and regulatory agencies, and you can see how it's a difficult job to gather all this information, parse it on a daily (or more frequent) basis, and check it all for errors. There are some companies (e.g. Bloomberg) whose entire business model is to do the above.  They spend tens of millions of dollars per year to support the infrastructure and manpower required to keep such a complex system working, and they charge their consumers a pretty penny in return. Do Google/Yahoo pay for Bloomberg data access just to display information that we then consume for free?  Maybe.  Maybe they pay for some less expensive reduced data set.  Or a data set that is less rigorously checked for errors. Even if they pay for the best data available, there's no guarantee that a company's last earnings report didn't have a glitch in it, or that Bloomberg's latest download from the Canadian Agency for Corporate Dividends and Moose Census-Taking didn't get cut off in the middle, or that the folks at Yahoo built a robust system that can handle a particular file's not arriving on time.  Bloomberg has dozens or even hundreds of employees focused on just this one task; Yahoo probably has 5. Moral: If you really need the best available data you must go to the source(s), or you must pay a provider to whom you can then complain when something is wrong.  With free data you get what you pay for.
"For their current operations, they need people because of all the rules and regulations around the world. It's not ""random dude downloads the app and becomes a driver"" everywhere. In Sweden, you need to have a registered taxi fleet company and you need to be a licensed taxi driver in order to operate any taxi business. Then you can drive for whoever you want, including Uber. Those regulations need to be handled by staff. Then there's the marketing department in every country/city.  As for the developers, I'm guessing many of them work on things of the future. I guess they're preparing for driverless cars?"
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"&gt; I don't know all the background details of the methodology...  Fair enough.  &gt; I do trust the analysis that NZ is freer than the US...  Then I have a specific question.  [The Heritage Foundation's score of business freedom](http://www.heritage.org/index/regulatory-efficiency) is ""a quantitative measure of the ability to start...a business..."" plus other things. In the US, health care is an issue when starting a business because the entrepreneurs must give up a subsided plan with their former jobs and then they need to research and buy a plan at their new company. This is all because health care is tied to work here in the US.  New Zealand doesn't have these problems because, as /u/Ratl0r mentioned, they have universal health care.  Would you agree that the US moving to a universal health care system would make it easier for its citizens to start a business?"
That makes sense doesn't it? Longer wait times? Won't that be the result of covering everyone? So yes, wait times are a concern. Is that your number 1 concern? More than money or how effective the system is? You will pay almost double to wait a month less for treatment(life threatening cases still get treated as fast as they do in the US if not faster), or to see a doctor two hours sooner? You will pay more for a system that gives you less? The quality of care is not dog shit. I don't know where you get this from. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/06/16/u-s-healthcare-ranked-dead-last-compared-to-10-other-countries/#45cf82b6576f You will find this pattern in all other legitimate studies you look at. Your dog shit claim applies to the US more than anyone. Its amazing how willing Americans are to swallow the lie that changing their healthcare system will make it worse. That the free market is the answer. Reality does not reflect that and seeing as this is the economics subreddit, I think it should be very easy for people to come up with reasons why healthcare does not behave like selling widgets. Now, not all those systems are fully socialized. There are free market elements, for example, Germany and Switzerland are similar to Obamacare, however there is more robust regulations in those systems that help to keep costs down and quality up. The UK does have Universal Healthcare(all of them have a universal system actually, but the UK has single payer which is what I think you meant), and it goes pretty well. Even the Canadian system for all its flaws has better survival rates compared to American treatments, and at a much lower cost. Ask any Canadian if they would prefer the American system, or even if they would prefer to go back to pre-universal coverage days and any sane one would not....and Canada has the next worse system. Its marginally better than the American system, but at a much lower cost. What you think is ideal isn't based on any real research I suspect. Its based on ideology.
People forget companies constantly cheat regulations anyway... look at last years car emissions BS, dumping in rivers, improper storage of chemicals, cars with bad ignitions that can turn it off or cause it to accelerate rapidly and ends up killing everyone in the car, etc.   And that’s *with* regulations against those sorts of things. Regulations are really a base line of expectation of behavior. Sure, “the free market” will let people choose other cars that don’t kill them because the right ignition would have cost a car manufacturer another $2 in profit per car, but that don’t mean shit when it was your family that slammed into a stantion at 80mph.
I have recently started using Transferwise to transfer money between the U.K. and The Netherlands. Transferwise has lower fees than other companies.  They use a pseudo-peer-to-peer money transfer system.  When person A transfers £ to €, and person B transfers € to £, they effectively cancel these two agains teach other, which significantly lowers exchange fees for both A and B. I am not affiliated with Transferwise other than as a customer.
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"I worked for a major car rental company (not Hertz, but comparable) for quite a while, taking reservations by phone. I completely agree that the reservation system is terrible, and is only vaguely based on the reality of their vehicles in stock at best. The problem is, from a strictly business perspective, taking more reservations than they have cars is currently considered the most profitable model for them.  To play devil's advocate just a little, switching to a ""take only one reservation per vehicle, reserve it to 100% lock it in"" model is a bit more complicated than it sounds. In order to guarantee a specific car for a customer at a specific time, they either have to leave that car sitting on their lot until you rent it (not making money), or keep renting it out to other people in the interim. If they rent it out to someone else before your rental comes up, that removes the vehicle from their control. Bordering on constantly, renters don't return the vehicle within their promised schedule or return it in a damaged or otherwise unsuitable condition. To be clear I'm not trying to make excuses for the rental car company (there are many reasons I no longer work there), but it's objectively hard for them to get a specific vehicle if, say, all but one of them were in wrecks the previous night, and the person renting the last one drove it across the country without warning the rental office and refuses to come back. Those problems all get solved eventually, but that doesn't help you when you show up and can't get the car you reserved.  So, they continue to take excessive reservations, and just give people whatever they happen to have when they show up, if they have any cars at all.   There's definitely better ways to do it for the customer, but like many businesses, they'll continue to do it whatever way they determine is best for their profits.  Edit: Words."
"They already do, it is just sneaky how it is done.  They have created a system with healthcare where we pay up to three times more per capita than any other western country.  They do this by setting up particular legislation and shutting down public options (and anything else that might cut out administration and executive profits).  They don't need to directly tax us in order to keep an unreasonable amount of money flowing to corporate executives and wealthy share holders.  That is without even getting into pharmaceutics and prohibition legislation.  One way they could easily keep money flowing to Hollywood, would be an additional tax refund that applies to ""legitimate"" entertainment costs.  Or perhaps doing as Canada does and adding taxes to storage media.  They can also continue to cut web freedom, options and bandwidth.  Every bit of legislation I see come down the pipe (with only a couple of notable exceptions, such as dadt) has been about protecting profits for the top of the economic pile, at the expense of everyone else.  EDIT:  I would also like to mention that our taxes already fund healthcare, and in fact, we pay so much that we could have a universal system already just with the money we spend via taxes.  It is so hyper-inflated because of the vast amount of profit built into the system at all levels.  http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/OECD042111.cfm http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=1258  We have to cut out admin and profits to the hyper-wealthy if we wish to have a reasonable healthcare system.  This chart in particular shows the problem.  http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/images/OECDChart3_1.gif  This was just in 2008, costs have increased since then at the accelerated rate.  So yes, the oligarchy has ways of making us pay without introducing specific new taxation."
They have to follow the same rules as taxis because they *are* taxis. Sure, change the taxi laws. I know several cab companies that would love to fluctuate their fares based on time of day. Oh, it's 2am and you want a ride home? Sure, that'll be $10/mi, payment up front.  The big complaint here isn't the competition, that's fine. It's the fact that they aren't following the same regulations, i.e. breaking the law, where the cab companies still have to obey the law. It's not a level playing field. The cab companies in my area have told the city if they don't kick Uber and Lyft out they're going to stop paying their licensing fees, and that's about $2m ever year.
can you give us some more information?  consumer based product? b2b type product?  does it have an end user (ie dropbox) or does it somehow integrate two things (ie you found a way for a photocopier to email someone when a printing job's done)?  saas? web based? phone based? desktop based?  who would be purchasing it? it departments? end users? parents?  who would the end user be? executives? customer service people? teenagers?  is it something that needs critical mass (reddit, facebook) to really take off?  do you have any people that can be beta / test clients?   not asking for specific details of where the treehouse is located, but would help to broadly know the type of forest it's in :)
You'd likely be subject to a lock-up period before you could sell the shares along with possibly having other rules about how you could sell your shares as you'd likely be seen as an insider that may have information that gives you an unfair advantage for selling the stock possibly. Depending on how far in advance you hold the shares, you may or may not have adjustments in the valuation and number of shares as some companies may do a split or reverse split when preparing for an IPO. A company I worked for in the late 1990s had an IPO and my stock options had a revised strike price because of a reverse stock split that was done prior to the IPO.
Taxi regulations exist to protect the public. It's not some racket to keep people out of the market.  Insurance: Uber/Lyft only insure their drivers while they are loaded. Meaning any other time they are driving around, even if they are driving to a call, they aren't insured. If they get in a wreck, their own car insurance won't cover it because they don't have taxi insurance which is a shit load more expensive than regular car insurance.  Red-lining: Red-lining is where taxi companies will not server certain neighborhoods, meaning they will neither pick up nor drop off in the area.  Discrimination: All classes are protected under taxi regulations with serious repercussions for discrimination. This also includes people with disabilities, like the blind and those in wheel chairs.  Rates: Taxi rates are typically approved by the city so that companies can't constantly change them. This is a big one as far as Uber/Lyft goes.  Really what it comes down to is Uber/Lyft need to operate on a level playing field. They are a taxi service. There is absolutely no question about this and it isn't up for dispute. They need to obey the same laws that taxi companies are still held to or be fined into oblivion. If you actually bother to read the taxi regs for your city, you will see they are there to protect you as a customer and have little benefit to taxi companies. About the only rule I can think of are the regulations regarding paying your fare. For all the rest, the taxi companies would be better off without because they wouldn't be forced to serve people they don't want to.  In my experience, the cab companies don't care about additional competition because it's the nature of the business. The fact that Uber/Lyft completely disregard all the regulations is what they have a problem with.  //Source: 8 years in the taxi industry.
A budget is a plan for spending money in the future. Tracking spending is only looking at what happened in the past.  Many people only track their spending, a proper budget can be key to achieving financial goals. You might earn enough and not spend frivolously enough that you aren't hamstrung by lack of a budget, but if you have specific financial goals, odds are you'll be more successful at achieving them by budgeting rather than only tracking spending.  I'm a fan of zero-sum budgets, where every dollar is allocated to a specific bucket ahead of time. Here's a good write-up on zero-sum budgets: How and Why to Use a Zero-Sum Budget
Sure did. For starters, it's important to note that many things that people label as public goods are not public goods. Roads and security services are not. Now if you're talking about the air that we breathe and bodies of water, then that is an issue for the legal system. A man could own a section of a river that runs through his property and - assuming that it was a clean river when he took ownership of it - he would have homesteaded the right to have that river be clean. He can only pollute it to the extent that it doesn't hurt others downstream, and he has a legal claim against any who would pollute it from upstream.  &gt; If private roads are so great, why didn't private institutions come up with the national highway system?  If state management of roads is so great, why did they have to steal land from private individuals to create a national highway system? If the benefits were so great, they should have been able to articulate that to the people along said highway and not taken their land by force. To directly answer your question: because the private sector doesn't come up with just anything and everything. It comes up with things that are mutually beneficial.  &gt; Will you trust private security to enforce our laws? How will you privatize the justice system?  It's not a matter of trust since I advocate a system of polycentric law, but I *would* prefer a market based system of law because it would provide more flexibility for consumer preferences and reduce conflict. There are videos that explain [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8pcb4xyCic) and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o).  &gt; In your view, what are the benefits of the profit motive behind private prisons?  I actually don't think that a private system of law would have a prison system like we have today. I personally see little use for one at all, but [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzYJYSm-MfI) is one theory on the market for a market based system of prisons.
the fact that you don't know that the chain doesn't only contain hashes concerns me...  I've consulted with several companies who are bringing blockchain technology to the financial, medical and legal sector, I have a feeling I might know a little more than you do about their specific implementations and business needs.