vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
Why the hell is health care still tied to employment?  Does anyone really think that is a reasonable function of business?  All this does is make hiring human workers less attractive.    Guess what.  Thanks to automation and outsourcing business owners increasingly have the choice to do without the hassle of hiring people, especially poor, unskilled people these sorts of 19th century programs are designed to help.  My heart goes out to those these sorts of short-sighted programs hurt the most (the poor), but blaming businesses for the mess is misdirected in the extreme.  Maybe you think that business is evil, but in this case it is clearly and unquestionably the system created by the regulatory environment that has created the undesired outcome.  The thing to always remember and keep in mind is the fact that businesses first and formost provide goods and services at the highest quality and lowest cost possible. Making labor more expensive means that businesses will do everything possible to use as little of it as possible when creating their good/service.  If you want socialized health-care then fine, advocate for the government providing this service directly.  Attempting to get 'health-care for free' by mandating businesses pay for it is simply a wrong-headed way to go about it that guarantees less employment **and** less health-care for the poor.
"While your implications make wrist-band.com (local wristbrand/lanyard company out of Sugar Land, lmao) seem a goliath, they're a nobody small company with a shitty business model.  So let's not act like small businesses are being driven out of business when the opposite is true.    Anyways, (god I can't take this serious, ""profits"" in this context is so hilarious, I doubt the money coming from a lanyard company is just rolling in the dough) it's real simple; Google is a huge platform that has some safeguards to prevent fraud, blah blah, unethical sellers, what have you.    Therefore, things slip!  If you'd like, why don't you try to go ahead and do something about instead of posting a ridiculous rant.    Here's Google My Business guidelines from a quick search.  I'm sure you can report a business that breaks these guidelines and the appropriate action will take place.    I'm still laughing at the premise of this."
"&gt;The inherent selfishness of mankind needs to be confined by the state for the greater good if entities fail to adhere to decent human standards.  As an American, I've never been sure if this is a ""human thing"" or an American thing.  I'm inclined towards the latter, because I'm living in another country now where there's no actual law requiring people close their businesses early the eve of a public/religious holiday, *but everyone still does*.  Running errands at 2PM before a holiday (by the way, *every single Saturday* is such a holiday here) is actually difficult because of how many businesses close down and give people their time off.  I've resented not being able to get things done, but *dear God* it must be *wonderful* for people with families with whom to spend the holidays."
Involved with Lead Generation here. I knew about rapportive and email permutation for a while now. The problem is that it's very time consuming. Twitter is very useless if you're going after companies in a niche market or small businesses. I have no idea what mailtester is.   I believe this was created in effort to have people find the emails, rather than assuming LinkedIn provides them (which they don't!).  I find it funny how they don't mention Sellhack. It's most likely because LinkedIn gave a C&amp;D to Sellhack this year. Now I believe Sellhack just uses dummy emails to extract real emails to build their own database.
"That ship has basically sailed. A significant number of businesses are going to have to replace their terminals *again* if the banks change their minds, which I doubt they would be too happy about. For example, a lot of small businesses use Square, which will not ask for PIN at all even for foreign cards and has no hardware that would permit it. Not to mention the restaurants that didn't bother with wireless terminals the first time (which is most of them).  Hell, even ignoring all that, a lot of major retailers don't even bother asking for the PIN with chip and PIN credit cards unless it's over $25-50. (Meanwhile, they always ask for the PIN for debit cards.) It's almost as though security *isn't* the main reason for wanting PIN to be required.  Source: I have a couple of the (very few) cards issued by American banks that ""require"" PIN."
"Just because ""many"" stocks have net losses doesn't prove the point. As this article describes, Morgan Stanley and Goldman are real businesses with billions in tangible assets. Their businesses are profit machines that create billions in value every quarter. Bitcoin has none of those things. That's why people say it's backed by emotions"
"Why shouldn't they pay for schools. After all why is that so many students and parents in underachieving public schools take no great interest in ensuring they get the best education tax payer dollars can offer?   Probably because they have no great stake in the game and the view the service as being always ""FREE"" of cost to them. In other words they fail to understand or don't care about the indirect costs because it has no immediate direct out of pocket cost to them."
Keep in mind this is a great primer on *macro*economics, or how the economies and money supplies of societies as a whole work.  It's equally fascinating and important to learn about the basics of *micro*economics, the other side of that coin (pun intended), or how individual people and businesses make decisions about production and consumption. You've probably heard of the laws of supply and demand which are really important for understanding things like how and why prices change and why some businesses and industries are more successful than others.
Yes, I know this sort of breaks our no-politics rule but this stuff transcends politics really, this is the basic idea of the internet they're trying to take away from us here, and this will deeply deeply affect internet businesses (which, aren't most big businesses internet businesses at this point?), so when fight for the future contacted us I just had to make an announcement.
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"The article is filled with terrible arguments.   The entire point of corporate tax reform is to stop having a situation where startups and small businesses (which are net job creators) are paying 40% corporate tax rates, whereas large established businesses (which tend to be net job-destroyers) pay 6% effective tax rates due to the tax advantages of debt. The author simply glosses over this and keeps repeating ""CORPORATIONS ALREADY PAY 20% AND NO NEW JOBS ARE CREATED!""   Then the author also tries to point towards cronyistic tax deals as evidence that tax reform isn't needed, when that's exactly why it is needed. High corporate taxes result in a situation where large companies can lobby for lower taxes for themselves, but smaller companies lacking political influence are stuck paying the high rates. Illinois is a great example of this phenomenon; their corporate taxes are sky-high so large companies just threaten to move every time they want lower taxes; so you end up with the ""large company tax"" which may be like 2% and the ""small company tax"" which may be something like 8%.   Overall, it's clear the author has ABSOLUTELY NO UNDERSTANDING WHATSOEVER of the issues involved with corporate tax reform. The US corporate tax system is terrible precisely because it rewards debt-driven growth and cronyism, while punishing real economic growth."
They have already done this - why should they have to pay taxes when a latecomer does not have to? Why did they have to follow environmental laws when Foxconn does not? That sounds like crony capitalism to me, where the government favors certain businesses over others.
"I can see why businesses would be upset at this, since previously facebook had convinced many businesses to use facebook advertising to increase the number of ""likes"" on their business facebook page.  And now they have to pay more to get any value out of having those likes on their facebook pages? Seems like a bit of a slap in the face."
I agree. Small investors got screwed worse with manually traded shares. Electronic trading was a big part of why fees for trades have come down so much over the years. HFT acts as a tax on small traders, but it is fairly insignificant.  This isn't to say that HFT isn't a problem. Systems that cause flash crashes with no one understanding why, isn't good for the market. A small fee is a small change that could provide a solution to the problem.
400 games a day are released in the app stores. There will always be random small games that find success but the vast majority of devs without diversified portfolios and cash flow will fail quickly. It's like any other entertainment industry with way more music tracks/movies/games than demand. It's incredibly risky (not to mention freaking hard as hell to make something 'fun'), especially compared to taking those programming skills and making a decent, steady salary as an engineer.
&gt; Please read the other comments about   That's all very well, and I **did** read the article - thank you very much for your suggestion; but my comment was not related to the other comments, it was a reply to a specific comment about smaller businesses being more responsive to customer complaints than smaller ones, something that I have not found to be true.  In fact, it is often quite the opposite.  Perhaps in your neck of the woods, small businesses are always polite and perfect, and never require your time.  My opinion is different.  For example, if a small business makes a mistake, then I definitely need to take time off work to try to fix it; possibly, I'll need to even personally go in.  On the other hand, my large banks have people available nights and weekends, making it easier.
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Removing emotions from decision making is autistic. Imo people fail to be a fit because most people have empathy and emotions. You want a bunch of computers to run your shit fine, but to acknowledge their behavior is anything short of being on the spectrum is naive
I've operated our family owned lan center with PC's and consoles for the last 4 years and some change. If you ever want to discuss your business plan, target demographic or any other aspects of the business please feel free to contact me.  www.level-up-augusta.com  http://imgur.com/gallery/S67t0  I've talked to current owners, people in various stages of planning, and others that are just testing the waters. The facts are LAN centers don't fail any more or less than any other small business. There are plenty of ways to make this business model work.
&gt; At a time when small businesses could not get affordable loans to create jobs, the Fed was providing trillions in secret loans to some of the largest banks and corporations in America that were well represented on the boards of the Federal Reserve Banks.  the 1% helping the 1% ? that's preposterous !
90% fail 10% success  Just plug in some odds, because most of this is made up and a bunch of bologna anyway. Put a field in for their hurdle rate in the Excel spreadsheet and have your model always project 5% above their hurdle rate.
And where does that spending by the government usually end up? Right back into the economy. Putting that tax money into the hands of the wealthy means they will do what they do best - hoard it. If you have an economy that's built on a certain amount of spending by the government, then cut that off because you decrease the government's cash flow, then you have to have an equal response in terms of spending. Kansas showed that most wealthy people do not spend the money they get to keep from lower taxes. That in turn causes a strain on the economy and you end up with both fiscal woes at the state level and economic woes for businesses and individuals. That's what happened in Kansas and that's what will happen at the federal level if these tax cuts are enacted. This is fine for the wealthy - they win in this scenario. But they are the only ones who do. Instead, the tax cuts should be focused on the lower and middle classes who will actually go out and spend that money. But, as written, these tax cuts disproportionately favor the wealthy, who will not spend to help individuals and small businesses.
$300k gross is lunch money, even for many small brick and mortar businesses. Add in taxes (federal, state, county, city, sales tax, property tax, parking, licenses/ permits), rent, cost of goods, hired labor and that $300k turns into $0, if you're lucky.
&gt; Why not just get rid of deposit insurance for commercial banks  Repeated cycles of boom-and-busts, bank runs, recessions and crashes (that make today's situation look like a walk in the park) showed that deposit insurance is the best policy. Case in point: no Great Depression since we instituted it, and individual account holders are protected even when banks fail (as they do now and then for natural reasons).
No, not crushing taxation, reasonable taxation. Our corporations pay some of the lowest taxes in the world, with some of the larger ones actually paying none. I'm fine with lower taxes on small businesses. Btw, if wanting decent opportunity to take care of me and mine is greed, then yes, I'm greedy.
A lot of these schemes fail to take into account the time/effort you have to spend in order to extract the small amount of profit you would get.  If there were easy money to be made, people would start making it and the company that was allowing themselves to be swindled would put an end to that deal.  So these things usually don't last. You used to be able to order dollar coins from the mint via credit card, with no shipping.  This was risk free and allowed you to earn credit card points.  But the mint has effectively plugged this hole.
There's a lot of foreign small and big businesses - as well as foreign individuals - that would love to invest in India.  But they can't because of the strict regulations and outright prohibitions on foreigners.  And instead of tearing down barriers to entry, Indian government is introducing more protectionist measures (as cheap goods come from China and Indian businesses can't compete despite cheaper labor force.)    I don't know the answer to India's problems.  I don't know what's going to happen.  But I agree with the Infosys guy:  India is no China and will not see that sort of success anytime soon.  Sure, India is gaining ground every year, but to even catch up to China of today, it is going to take decades.
Get rid of the idea that monopolies are required. Arbiters and dispute resolution firms can replace courts, and actually already do for many large companies, since courts are absurdly slow and inconsistent. Police spend half of their money policing drug use and possession, despite the majority of people not wanting them even illegal. End the monopoly of police by government and we'll directly fund firms who enforce rules of each property. If your rules are absurd, nobody will go on your property. Businesses would have very reasonable rules and simple such as prohibition against violence and theft.  Your complaints against insurance are dwarfed by government's waste. They routinely fail their customers and then make us pay for the mistake. Consider the failure of 9/11. We pay $Trillions for a national defense more costly than the next 25+ countries combined, and then when they fail and allow hijackers to ruin several buildings, WE and our kids and grandkids pay for it in higher taxes. They double down. Insurance companies lose customers when they have bad policy and consumer advocacy groups draw attention to it. Government just says FUCK YOU and their bureaucracy and social momentum (govt schools ensure very high support for govt as an unquestioned monopoly) allow them to continue without much opposition.
Yes, but what qualifications are they asking for? [Here's one reasoning for why they keep bitching.](http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/tech-careers/why-bad-jobsor-no-jobshappen-to-good-workers) Essentially it sums up to the companies not wanting to pay market price for homegrown talent (essentially they set the price and expect people to sell at that price when there are plenty of buyers), the companies not wanting to spend the money training, and the companies want people who can start on the ground running instead of taking a little time to get a feel for the job.  Most of the engineers I graduated with knew that they would need more on the job training because the degrees were so general. It's almost impossible to make the degrees fit perfectly to the parameters that the companies want, so the universities provide a good engineering foundation that businesses could build upon. If the businesses were willing to spend the time training people there wouldn't be a problem.
Get it in writing from the debt collector first that there will be a pay for deletion.  This is the most fail safe way that I know to get a collections debt completely removed from a credit report, and also without the chance of it being put back on the report by another agency.
Apoorva apparently doesn't like competitive according to my friends text, so I asked him if that means Instacart is being purchased as well. Makes sense, why compete when you can just get acquired or go acquiring other businesses
"This article makes a fairly biased point about how morally wretched suits MIGHT have caused one girl to commit suicide at one hospital in Australia . Then wildly extrapolated that point to make it sound like business people can't run businesses. Finally, the article states that business people are needed to run a business because businesses are businesses And doctors  are doctors. I get that this plays on reddits ""does anyone else le STEM :D"" argument that mostly turns into hatred for ""lesser"" majors. Business included, as always. So I can see why this article can lead to entertaining discussion. But I want the time I took to read this article back."
Yeah thats why you dont go to work under the influence thats kind of common sense i fail to see your point here. A guy who drinks beer at dinner shouldn't be hired ??  &gt;On the other hand, grades of individuals who moderated their use of alcohol and marijuana saw their GPA improve in subsequent semesters.  Yeah idk what your point is with this article either.
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Randomly selected stocks would probably become worthless at a similar rate of all businesses going out of business do.  I'm not sure why you'd randomly select a stock though.  Stocks in the S&P500 (or other similar index), or large-cap stocks probably become worthless at a much lower rate.
I operate machinery and drive for work but if I was drug tested I would fail... Yet I am not stoned at work. Am I more dangerous than my Co worker who comes in hung over everyday still smelling like booze. I get stoned at night, eat some Cheetos and go to bed. Why is what I do in my spare time a concern. Marijuana stays in your system for like 30 days, just because you test positive doesn't mean you are stoned.
. Stop it. You're the only one mischaracterizing. You tried to pin a $15 minimum wage on me when I vehemently disagreed with it.   The cost of college for me and my 2 brothers was over $500,000 because we all went to great schools that were 40-50K a year.  So I'll take my 18 years of public education (full of AP classes by the way), followed by my four in college, which got me an economics degree, and I'll keep laughing at you for failing so miserably at being condescending.    If letting business do whatever they wanted worked, trickle down economics wouldn't fail as regularly as it does. We didn't regulate the banks in the early thousands. We came close to a depression. We didn't regulate businesses in the progressive era, And we got disgusting meat processing plants and the triangle shirtwaist factory fire.   You understand no ones equalizing outcome. I just believe that if you work 9 hours a day 6 days a week you should have a decent standard of living.  I can be hysterical, but your wrong, you suck at being a dick and you just don't want to pay more taxes. There's not economic reasoning behind it. Kansas's governor had the same thinking as you. Deregulate. Let business do their thing. Cut taxes for th wealthy. Kansas's residences sat on that money and Kansas is in crisis right now because of it.   That's because more money into businesses doesn't mean they'll increase production especially if it doesn't increase efficiency, or did you not learn about that?  Every time we deregulate businesses run amok and then the government has to bail them out with tax payer money, only so they can turn around and lobby for eased regulations. Or does the result of the 08 Financial crisis not ring a bell?    You do understand most of your taxes go to subsidize billions of dollars for corporations like Walmart right? Where's your outrage?  And you're talking about looking at history?   Son, lmao. You're an idiot.
Yeah, you can presume anything you want.  I'm not going to spend the rest of the night refuting a wall of words that will only generate another wall of words that I will then have to spend the rest of the night refuting.  So by sheer might of bullshit, you win.  You are right about one thing though, Somalia is an example of a failed government.  You seem to want our government to fail as well.  What I meant by saying that Somalia is a government free utopia is that they do not collect taxes, they do not regulate their businesses, and they have no influence on the lives of their citizens, which as far as I can tell is exactly what you are advocating for the US.  Do you know what to call it when people structure their interactions in order to cooperate?  The word is Government.
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