vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
That's what the board, other executives, and consultants are for, but sometimes you get some hotshot who doesn't heed any advice.    In this case, the business plan was to break the law on a massive scale and use consumer goodwill, scale, and lobbyists to stay alive so maybe he thought the company above sexual harassment laws, too.  Their main corporate culture shtick is to be an asshole, so this was probably a byproduct of that, not the main theme a la Dov Charney.
"Figured it out.  Vertical spreads significantly reduce the amount of ""buying power"" on the account needed vs. buying / selling pure calls / puts.  So even though the transaction fees may more double in some instances, it may be worth it in order to operate with pricier underlying instruments. Spreads are also considered ""defined risk"" trades where both the profit and loss are capped per how the spreads are setup.  This is compared to single calls / puts where either the upside or the downside can be unlimited.  So for times when the expected move is not as pronounced, a spread may be a better fit depending on environment and other factors."
There are many factors.   Most gas stations price their gas based on what it will cost them to replace it.  So when their supplier raises the price that it charges the station the station typically raises its prices proportionality.  The suppliers tend to have their own rates.  The business needs to make a profit so the business sets the price where it feels it will make the most money. Some stations buy bargain gas.  Many people say they find this gas to be just fine.  Personally some stations gas seems to make my cars run much worse.  I can say that my mileage can vary by as much as 4 miles to the gallon based on where I get my gas.  So I pay more to go to those stations that consistently have provided me good gasoline.  However higher prices do not necessarily mean better gas.  We have a BP just down the street that seems to have bad gas while one about a half a mile away that I prefer because I have never had a bad tank of gas.  Both are priced about the same. Also some localities have special tax zones.  These are local taxes levied based on the location.  We have 4 different zones here in Peoria IL (150k pop).  That does not take into account the smaller cities around us.
So why are people still buying 15 year old Saturns or driving the same GM Denali for the last 13 years when the new cars are so much more efficient and cheaper to run?  Poor people are fucking poor.  Now you turn to Indonesia. How much do you think they are spending to maintain their vehicles? Next to nothing, that's what. They'll only fix it enough to get it running again. SAE certified mechanic? LOL, the guy between the whore house and the cigarette vendor can also do it.  How much do you think electricity costs in the Philippines? It can cost $100 USD a month to run the AC at night to get a decent sleep...The average Filipino makes less than $10 a month.
"I feel like the idea ""vote with your dollars"" has been around for a long time now but very few people have enacted it seriously.  Just think how much shit businesses get away with because they have little to no actual worry of anybody taking their business elsewhere.  A serious large amount of people would have to actually do so to make an impact, but they don't.  Meanwhile we know what happens when people actually do stop buying from businesses, e.g the disappearance of brick and mortar music stores since the advent of digital.  So what's the difference?  Obviously it is convenience.  When it was convenient for people to get their music digitally they stopped buying cds.  But it is apparently too inconvenient to adjust you buying for political reasons.  Which is of course shortsighted when you take the long term consequences into account as inconveniences (and in many cases these consequences are far worse than a mere inconvenience)"
"I said nothing about a preference for either system. All of the internet TV utopia stuff is a projection you put on me based on percieved ""reddit sentiment"" (for which I think your perception is pretty accurate).   That's just the way I imagine the market going, regardless of what's ""good"" for American Culture and jobs, etc.  The biggest thing I'm tempted to disagree with here is the idea that those big shows' funding will keep TV around.   My main objection is that I don't think we have a reason to believe that these high-budget shows need to exist in the future. I agree that it would suck to lose these types of shows, but I think they are a product of the arrangement of business less than they could ever be a driver of it. It seems totally feasible that cable would lose subscribers to people pirating their shows and to internet TV services, and that we'd just end up without shows like that.  Be careful to keep value judgments separate from what you think the market will or could do."
"Remember where they said ""Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? That is the essence of this problem. You have freedom including freedom to mess up. On the practical side, it's a matter of structuring your money so it's not available to you for impulse buying, and make it automatic. Have you fully funded your key necessities? You should have an 8-month emergency fund in reserve, in a different savings account. Are you fully maxing out your 401K, 403B, Roth IRA and the like? This single act is so powerful that you're crazy not to - every $1 you save will multiply to $10-100 in retirement. I know a guy who tours the country in an RV with pop-outs and tows a Jeep. He was career Air Force, so clearly not a millionaire; he saved. Money seems so trite to the young, but Seriously. THIS. Have auto-deposits into savings or an investment account. Carry a credit card you are reluctant to use for impulse buys. Make your weekly ATM withdrawal for a fixed amount of cash, and spend only that. When your $100 has to make it through Friday, you think twice about that impulse buy. What about online purchases? Those are a nightmare to manage. If you spend $40 online, reduce your ATM cash withdrawal by $40 the next week, is the best I can think of. Keep in mind, many of these systems are designed to be hard to resist. That's what 1-click ordering is about; they want you to not think about the bill. That's what the ""discount codes"" are about; those are a fake artifice. Actually they have marked up the regular price so they are only ""discounting"" to the fair price. You gotta see the scam, unsubscribe and/or tune out. They are preying on you. Get angry about that! Very good people to follow regularly are Suze Orman or Dave Ramsey, depending on your tastes. As for the ontological... freedom is a hard problem. Once food and shelter needs are met, then what?
Take a group of solidly academic courses (perhaps including business course) and do very well in them. I'd take two or three at a time, giving you time to focus on them deeply. Do what you need to do to do well -- talk to the professor early in the course about the course themes and goals (and so they know who you are), work well ahead of time on all papers and edit, edit, edit them. Study like crazy for every test. Use available review books. Get a tutor if you need one, preferably someone at the college who has taken the class. Talk to others who have taken the class before you for their advice. Also talk to the professor about how best to review for each test -- meet with them a week before the test to ""go over"" your questions. A good approach is for you to say that you think ""such and such"" are the main themes so you'll be studying them for the test. Few professors can risk correcting you if those are not the main themes. This can be immensely helpful to you in getting your focused on what you need to study (meaning what they plan to ask about on the test). As a former teacher, I always corrected students who misunderstood major course themes or were focusing on trivia rather than larger issues and problems. This also sends the message that you are a hard worker, likely giving you some benefit of the doubt (""89? Oh, heck, give him an A-""). With a few tough courses with good grades behind you, you have a much stronger record to apply with. And this shows you are serious since you went out of your way to take these courses. Broader your view of ""top tier"" schools as many schools that are not in the Top Ten silliness will offer programs that are just as good. Then research your ""top tier"" schools to find out what kind of student they're looking for. Do they want someone who has done something different? Someone who took some time off (like you!) to travel and work? Emphasize this in your application. Emphasize your extra effort to take courses, your job, your maturity and experience. Colleges love that.
What about people who's products aren't bought?  People who get paid to make money out of thin air.    And what happens when those people make enough money to buy legislation that benefits themselves while hurting people who actually do make stuff for a living?  And what happens when those people's activities cause the world economy to come crashing down?  And what happens when those people's losses are involuntarily insured by people who had nothing to do with the problem in the first place?  This isn't as simple as not buying an iPad because you think Apple charges too much.
I agree with you and I think it's more of a regulation thing. Hotels pay immense taxes and are subject to inspections. I don't think the issue is with people renting out their homes but with people buying homes to rent them out without being regulated or paying the same fees a hotel would when they're essentially running a hotel business. That being said, I think AirBnB is much better than staying in hotels and I don't wish nor think it'll go away anytime soon and I've never personally had a bad experience when staying in one.
A lot of Chinese are buying U.S. property for the sake of diversifying. A lot of Chinese still have a the grass is greener on the other side mentality when it comes to the U.S. They know very little about how many people on the U.S. are on food stamps.   And a lot of people that have communist party wealth are afraid that there will be an uprising against them so they are preparing escape plans.    edit: I think it's likely that the elite here in the U.S. also have escape plans.
You seem to have not ever received a cease and desist letter and not sure if you know what you are talking about regarding the nature of this one.  - legal trouble is extremely disruptive to business (and this is a tiny side project) really not worth the hassle once they had proved the point. Being 90% certain you are in the right is not that reassuring if the downside is measured in 6 or 7 figures  - issue was use of McGregors name and likeness which are protectable. You can't just slap a famous persons name and image on your product (or anyone's for that matter) without their permission. Trademarks don't appear to come into it  - they could have continued without use of his name and probably would be fine - but by that point they have achiev d what they set out to, the profit is relatively small compared to the main business and they probably have some insight to how crucial the name was to the success (e.g. What if 90% of web searches that lead to a sale included his name? If CTR is much lower for non mcgregor ads?) etc.
Scenario 3: MoneyCorp sells 90,000 shares for more than the current price, $2 each, because there's a lot of hype about its business. MoneyCorp now owns $190,000 in 100,000 shares and each share is worth $1.90. Existing shareholders win big! This is why a company would like to make its share offering at the highest price possible (think, Facebook IPO). Of course, the new shareholders may be disappointed. MoneyCorp is actually a lot like a real business! Actually, if you want to get down to it, MoneyCorp works very much like a money-market fund. The main difference between MoneyCorp and a random company on the stock market is that we know exactly how much money MoneyCorp is worth. You don't know that with a real business: sales may grow, sales may drop, input prices may rise and fall, and there's room for disagreement - that's why stock markets are as unpredictable as they are, so there's room for doubt when a company sells their stock at a price existing shareholders think is too cheap (or buys it at a price that is too expensive). Most companies raising capital will end up doing something close to scenario 1, the fair-prices-for-everyone scenario. Legally, if you own part of a company and they do something a Scenario-2 on you... you may be out of luck. Consider also: the other owners are probably hurt as much as you are. Only the new shareholders win. And unless the management approving the deal is somehow giving themselves a sweetheart deal, it'll be hard to demonstrate any malfeasance. As an individual, you probably won't file a lawsuit either, unless you own a very large stake in the company. Lawsuits are expensive. A big institutional investor or activist investor of some sort may file a suit if millions of dollars are at stake, but it'll be ugly at best. If there's nothing evil going on with the management, this is just one way that a company loses money from bad management. It's probably not the most important one to worry about.
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As a business owner you are in charge of managing resources to help generate that $10, you yourself however did not generate that $10. You had employees, and contractors, and people managing your building, payroll and yes even taxes. Every person involved in getting the product or service from idea to the door are all part of that $10. If your efforts in that co-ordination are netting you 15% of the total then you are beating the market already and I am not sure what your problem is. If you are looking to double or triple your investments you are looking for Las Vegas not Wall St or Main St. I think the issue I see among people with your opinion is a failure to understand 2nd and 3rd order effects. Your bubble extends to what you do in your daily life and the parts of it you visibly see and touch. The world you see and touch every day is supported and made comfortable by a whole system and people whom you will never see or know."
Interest rates do generally affect house prices but other factors do too, especially the unemployment rate. However, everything else being equal, when interest rates drop, it makes the borrowing of money cheaper so tends to stimulate the economy and the housing market, increasing the demand for houses and generally causes house prices to increase (especially if the supply of new housing doesn't increase with the demand). When interest rates go up the opposite happens. Usually interest rates go down in order to stimulate a slowing economy and interest rates go up to slow down an overheated economy. Regarding your situation you are able to get a 30 year fixed rate at today’s interest rates (in Australia the longest fixed rate you can get is for 10 years and the rate is usually 1 or 2 percent higher than the standard variable rate. Most people here go for the variable rate or a fixed rate of between 1 to 3 years). This means that even if rates do go up in the future you won't be paying a higher rate, which is a positive for you. You are buying the house to live in so as long as you can keep making the repayments you should not be too worried if the price of the house drops sometime in the future, because if your house has dropped and you want to sell to buy another house to live in, then that house would have also dropped relative to yours (give or take). So your main worry is that rates will go up causing both house prices to fall and unemployment to rise, and you yourself losing your job and eventually your house. It is a risk, but what you need to consider is if you can manage that risk. Firstly, I believe rates won't be going up in the US for a number of years, and if and when they do start going up they will most probably start going up slowly. So you have some time on your side. Secondly, what can you do between now and when interest rates do start going up in a few years: Try to put more saving away to increase your safety net from 6 months to 12 months or more, or make extra repayments into your home loan so that you are ahead if things do go wrong. If you are worried that you could lose your job, what can you do to reduce your chances of losing your job or increasing your chances of getting a new job quickly if you do lose it?
In terms of preserving good relationships one approach is to charge a nominal rate of interest. maybe a few percent of the total and agree a time when it should be paid back. This may actually make them feel better about borrowing them money, especially, especially if it is something like business loan or buying a house or car.  If they need the money for a real crisis and they have no clear strategy for paying it back then it may just be better all around if you make it clear that it is a gift.  What you don't want to do is set up a situation where you are creating unnecessary problems down the road and that will very much depend on your individual relationship and how seriously you take the loan.  Here it is important that you are completely open and honest about the arrangement so take the time to make sure that both parties understand exactly what they expect from each other.
I think it looks pretty good. Something about the reverse white typography seems a bit harsh to me what with everything else being in warm browns but that's a quibble.  I remember being told in some business course ages ago that one needed to be able to withstand 3 years of few sales when starting a new biz. That was pre-internet. There are probably new rules but I think one should still be prepared for a long wait. People have to find the site. How will they do that?
The main thing you're missing is that while you bear all the costs of manipulating the market, you have no special ability to capture the profits yourself. You make money by buying low and selling high. But if you want to push the price up, you have to keep buying even though the price is getting high. So you are buying high. This gives everyone, including you, the opportunity to sell high and make money. But you will have no special ability to capture that -- others will see the price going up and will start selling within a tiny fraction of a second. You will have to keep buying all the shares they keep selling at the artificially inflated price. So as you keep trying to buy more and more to push the price up enough to make money, everyone else is selling their shares to you. You have to buy more and more shares at an inflated price as everyone else is selling while you are still buying. When you switch to selling, the price will drop instantly, since there's nobody to buy from you at the inflated price. The opportunity you created has already been taken -- by the very people you were trading with. Billions have been lost by people who thought this strategy would work.
"It's not at all different from anything that happens in reality. Everybody deals with risk and uncertainty, everybody worries about the future, and everybody puts their best mind to bear on it. You gamble, you hedge your bets, you try to do your best with what you've got and what you're willing to give up. People who aren't in the financial industry can also think about their goals in a fine-tuned, strategic, mathematical way. Being able to accurately model reality is useful for pretty much everything.  The way in which it is actually totally different is not addressed. People who deal in derivatives can do a very precise job of predicting the future. So can astronomers, bullfighters, and migratory fish. The difference is that people who deal in derivatives have the ability to leverage reality to obtain a preferred future reality in a uniquely influential way. The guy is acting like investment banks live up on a mountain and look at tea leaves and send down memos about securities once a year.   &gt;Changing the shape of the graph is in some loose sense the business of the financial system, particularly the big investment banks, which are sometimes thought of as ""dealers in risk.""   So are drug dealers. But the guesses investment banks make about the future affect the actual future of investment banks in a way that isn't available to, say, cobblers, so they are dealing with much less of their own risk than most people.   &gt;Buying and selling derivatives means consciously trafficking in risk and uncertainty, in a relatively uncut form. This makes it interesting to people who don't buy or sell derivatives for a living, but who are curious about risk and uncertainty.  It also makes it interesting to people who are curious about why their lives are affected by the the risk and uncertainty of people who trade in derivatives."
"A lot (sometimes called a round lot) always refers to the quantity of physical good that you're getting, like a carton of eggs or a barrel of oil.  The tricky thing in the case of forex is that the physical good also happens to be a currency. A spot currency product trades in the denomination on the right-hand side (RHS) of the product name.  So if you're buying EUR/USD you are paying USD currency to get EUR ""units"", and if you're selling EUR/USD you are receiving USD by giving away EUR ""units"".  The EUR is the ""physical good"" in this case. The way I remember it is to think of all products (not just currencies) as trading pairs.  So AAPL in my mind is AAPL/USD.  When I buy AAPL/USD I am paying USD to get AAPL units.  When I sell AAPL/USD I am receiving USD by giving away AAPL units. The thing on the left is the physical good (even if it happens to be money) that you are exchanging, and the thing on the right is the money that you are exchanging. So, when I buy a lot of AAPL, I am buying 100 shares at their current price in dollars. Similarly, when I buy a lot of EUR/USD, I am buying 100K Euros at their current price in dollars."
"The failure of the Facebook IPO has everything to do with public access to markets. It certainly was overvalued at issue and there were a host of other problems as well but, the main issue that has caused the problem is that there were too many ""Armchair Analysts"" in on it. Less sofisiticated investors got in on Facebook at $38+ because they liked Facebook and everyone they knew liked Facebook. By and large they couldn't read a balance sheet or describe how the firm made money. As such as soon as it began to decline they sold without regard for the loss. Very few if any professionals actually baught it at launch and more than One pro shorted the position and cleaned up. I find it humorous that while most people would never think of trying to buy a house withotu a realtor they are perfectly happy buying thier own stocks without professional advice. Say what you want about the finance industry but, for the VAST majority of people having an advisor is a far smarter option."