vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"Do you know who this guy is? He's the one who bankrupted himself building a replica of Versailles in Florida, then had the audacity to say  &gt;""people like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for.""  Bullshit! He didn't invest in himself, he spent money he didn't have on the most expensive house in America so he could live in a place that's entire history epitomizes decadence and luxory at the expense of everyone else. And how in the fuck does his personal tax rate affect his ability to run a business? He straight up says  &gt;""I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids.""   He admits that every paycheck from here on out is superfluous, so in what reality does an extra 5% in taxes so badly inconvenience him that he would be forced shut down his entire company? He's a scumbag. He doesn't care about his employees at all, he's a greedy douchebag who is trying to bully people into voting in his best interests, and his best interests absolutely *do not* line up with his employees'."
It's not a matter of claiming that no one deserves their success. It's a push back against the claim that luck doesn't play a determinative (but by itself insufficient) role in that success. edit: and how that perception shapes socio-cultural attitudes towards the less lucky.
A lower statuory rate, relative to the statutory rates of other developed countries (every single one of which have statutory rates much lower than ours), incentivises firms to invest more money in the US and hire more American workers, and to make good business decisions, rather than forcing them to make decisions based on steep, arbitrarily set tax liability.
You can pay a lot in that store, but there are very reasonable prices. If you cherry pick sale items TJ's is no more expensive than any other store. Who knows the sales better than the employees? Also, grabbing a few things after work without making another stop is very convenient. Throw in the employee discount and those are definitely good enough reasons for employees to shop at their store.
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That's laughable though. Point guards in the NCAA work their asses of as well. How many of them make it? Working ass is always memories to play a much larger role than it does. And we're talking sports. Something probably far more meritocratic than the rest of us plebs are doing.
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What about the debt attached to more recently purchased properties, purchased at the price before the market gets flooded with baby-boomer homes? I'm not an expert in real estate finance, but it sounds like if that downward pressure on prices isn't slight, financial institutions will be taking that risk for anyone who defaults on a mortgage after their property loses a substantial amount of its value.  It seems like immigration could play an important role in offsetting this and keeping the prices stable, but that's a politically unpredictable issue to say the least.
The made a lot of bad decisions:   -  Putting the cash registers in the middle of the store.   -  Cutting the number of employees in each clothing departments. (I know someone who was alone, on a Saturday for all women's clothing).    -  Firing the experience employees working on a % base in certain departments (like the tools) for minimum wage unexperienced ones.     -  Keeping the same buyers who were clearly still stuck in the 80's. Even my Dad would have done a better job.   -  Waiting too long to renovated their stores.
The thing is, capitalism doesn't care about national interests.  It just cares about making money.  This is why you can't run government like you run a business.  In business, outsourcing, firing people and making those who stay do more work, etc is all good business.
Somalia, that's your trump card? I'm equally disgusted at both parties and the role they played during the financial crisis which affected the entire world, and because I won't play sheep and walk in lock-step to the polls for Obama (or Romney), your suggestion is that I move to Somalia?   Can you not see how ridiculous you are?
Normally, yes, kind of. I don't personally think in terms of 'generating profit' when making business IT purchasing decisions, I merely think in terms of adding value.   But in the context of the article:   &gt;Before you buy a technology, consider well whether it is going to increase your revenues or decrease your costs? If it would not then there is no point buying it.      A DR/BC facility will never generate profit. It will, hopefully, allow you to continue generating the profit you were generating any way, should shit go bad. But even then, your costs are likely to go up.   So when I say 'kind of', I mean you're right in that 'profit' can mean more than numbers on a balance sheet, but the writer of the article seems to present 'profit' in those black and white terms. The article appears to advocate something that is not particularly good practice, but deems to call it so.
&gt; Cheaper energy is equivalent to a pay raise  No it isn't.  A pay raise can be distributed as the payee feels fit, cheaper energy only serves one area of expenditure, which as I stated, isn't the major area that somebody who is struggling financially needs help.  We don't need more competitive pricing in products, we need business in America to stop focusing on profits for their shareholders over providing decent wages to their employees.  America is one of the most  (if not the most) competitively priced marketplace in the world.  The average person doesn't give a shit that flowerpots cost $3.40 each instead of $3.60, they care that they have shitty healthcare, cannot afford to buy a house, cannot afford rent, cannot afford decent food, have no job security.    Corporate profits have skyrocketed, the super-rich keep getting richer, bankers make decisions based on their bonuses rather than the sustainability of their decisions.  Cheaper energy isn't going to solve one of those problems.  Corp. profits vs wages:  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/trade-record-corporate-profits-your-miserable-salary
Hey,  While CFA is a great course in terms of the curriculum, it is going to be tough for you to actually land a job since CFA doesn't conduct any centralized placements. 25-26 isn't too late to start a job - jus make sure you mention your role in the  family  business  as work experience on your resume.  An MBA may be a better option to get ur career going , but it's expensive and getting admission into a good school is ridiculously tough.
In addition to the other comments there are things like training costs. Lower paid employees tend to turn over more quickly so instead of training one employee for 4 weeks and staying for 3 years you spend 12 weeks over that same time period as the minimum wage employees each only stay for a year. Also, you aren't necessarily scheduling all three people at the same time, it might be 3 part time workers at $12 an hour covering one role vs. one full time $20 employee working 40 hours a week.
"Must I rehash the obvious reasons why a community organizer lacks the business sense to see us through the mess?  ...and must I really detail why it is the corrupt career politicians in and out of congress that are to blame for this mess?  Obama's persistent electioneering since 2008, and the pandering to special interests to the tune of trillions is a good place for starters ...or perhaps the 7 figure price tag per job that he owns...  I dunno, I lost count of Recovery Summers (is this IV or V? ) and ""shovel-ready"" *jobs* obviously meant something else to him...  Yet, I suppose the dozen or so private firms that Obama haphazardly threw millions of tax payer dollars into that only ended up failing could also play a role ...but proceed to blame bush, and stack up the excuses. I'm waiting.   Sure, Romney may have been a shrewd business man, but at least someone made money and had something more tangible than ""hope."""
I would listen to chrissundberg below.  Most professionals I meet and interact with in accounting firms, law firms, lending, and others are by the book, smart, professional, and honest in their business dealings.  Of course I have also run into a small minority that try to avoid contractual obligations or pull a fast one on the auditors, but these guys are known quickly throughout the business community and avoided.    You need to reevaluate your thoughts on government's role in business and the finance industry, which you are clearly interested in joining.  Quite frankly you won't last a week coming in most companies if you vocalize the government should do audits and business is amoral.
The owner of a long futures contract does not receive dividends, hence this is a disadvantage compared to owning the underlying stock. If the dividend is increased, and the future price would not change, there is an arbitrage possibility. For the sake of simplicity, assume that the stock suddenly starts paying a dividend, and that the risk free rate is zero (so interest does not play a role). One can expect that the future price is (rougly) equal to the stock price before the dividend announcment. If the future price would not change, an investor could buy the stock, and short a futures contract on the stock. At expiration he has to deliver the stock for the price set in the contract, which is under the assumptions here equal to the price he bought the stock for. But because he owned the stock, he receives the announced dividend. Hence he can make a risk-free profit consisting of the divivends. If interest do play a role, the argument is similar.
He probably doesn't expect you to know technical information about what he does, but you should almost certainly do  a fair amount of research to be fully aware of his role in the company, the mission of the company as a whole and the sort of needs he probably expects his assistant to fulfill.  Good luck!
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Walmart now accelerating roll-out of fully automated warehouse and distribution centre technology; materials handling events to go down by seventy percent post-deployment.   That's probably what the announcement's going to be about. And seventy percent less product-related work to be done in a warehouse means seventy percent fewer floor workers, meaning that all those employees striking today will have their positions restructured by the end of the year.   And yes, their HR department is staffed by dementors, but damn their supply chain is like a curvy set of tits to those who've studied it; you can't help but want to play with it. A lot. Good stuff.
&gt;Now introduce chance by randomly assigning each participant a “luck” score. That score, however, can play only a tiny role in the ultimate outcome, just 2 percent compared with 98 percent allotted to skill. This minor role for chance is enough to tilt the contest away from the top-skilled people. In a simulation with 1,000 participants, the person with the top skill score prevailed only 22 percent of the time. The more competition there is, the hardest it is for skill alone to win out. With 100,000 participants, the most skilled person wins just 6 percent of the time. http://www.bloomberg.om/news/articles/2016-09-01/why-luck-plays-a-big-role-in-making-you-rich    https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2006/04/26/1917/understanding-mobility-in-america/ &gt;Children from low-income families have only a 1 percent chance of reaching the top 5 percent of the income distribution, versus children of the rich who have about a 22 percent chance.  -- Children born to the middle quintile of parental family income ($42,000 to $54,300) had about the same chance of ending up in a lower quintile than their parents (39.5 percent) as they did of moving to a higher quintile (36.5 percent). Their chances of attaining the top five percentiles of the income distribution were just 1.8 percent.  Further, children born into the bottom quintile of income have a 42% chance of remaining there and only a 6% chance of making it to the top quintile. For those born  in the top quintile it's exactly the opposite: 42 percent remain in the top quintile as adults, and only 6 percent fall down to the lowest income bracket.   I'd imagine folks like you don't like to read so  https://www.mixcloud.com/rationallyspeaking/rationally-speaking-165-robert-frank-on-success-and-luck/
I think all business owners in the UAE should have their employees undergo such safety courses. It is important that safety in the workplace or site is prioritized and that all employees pay particular attention to this important aspect as well. First aid and fire safety should only be some of the safety training courses that employees should receive or undergo.
&gt; Just like you don't wear hockey skates to play football, you don't wear stupid looking shoes to work in finance.  Did you respond to the wrong person?  I'm the one making fun of people wearing dumb as fucj square toed shoes here lol.   My comment was that if the person above thinks I have a stick up my ass for making fun of his dumb as fuck shoes, he's too insecure to be in finance.
&gt; Sure, you don't agree, don't know why don't agree, can't explain why you don't agree... because you like to disagree for the purpose of disagreeing.  Oh please. You're the one who started attributing disagreements to me about things I never said.   &gt; What don't you disagree with?  OK, I'll bite.  &gt; Susan is no good?  She made a grave mistake. Can't speak to the totality of her career based on this one incident.  &gt; Got her job in a corrupt way?  No public information sources I've seen support such an allegation.   &gt; her degrees show she was not born interested in security (except for fat pay checks)?  Her degree shows that in her youth she was more interested in music; her career history, on the other hand, demonstrates an interest in security. Alleging that her interest was solely based on pay is pure speculation.  &gt; people with IT degrees are more a match, suitable and qualified for security jobs, especially when they have specific on-hand experience?  People with specific, recent experience (Susan had 14 years), are more qualified than people with an outdated IT degree. Between two people with identical experience, the IT degree might help tip the scales. Still, her role was administrative, not hands-on, so specific technical skill sets are less important than management skills for this role.  &gt; HR does not care about employees?  Good HR does.  &gt; real experts have to fight HR and terrible management... and usually lose because of this whole corrupt setup?  Real security experts are not often also experts in HR and management, so aren't qualified to judge qualifications or actions of taken in those contexts as they are unlikely to have a clear view of the overall situation. Claiming that the HR and management setup is systemically corrupt is a specious claim.
"Presicely. I find it sad that individuals, employees and consumers have to play by the rules of ""the free market"" when it comes to buying products or employment but a giant corporation can muscle its way in to manipulating supply and demand to their advantage when they see fit."
If I remember his interview during the world economic forum, he said we were wasting money on wars.  Getting our fiscal situation in order to maintain interests abroad and invest domestically means making tough decisions and sacrifices - like raising taxes.
"Monetary policy has always been in play. The Romans frequently debased (that is, increased the alloy/base metal ratio) their coinage and the U.S. went off the gold standard numerous times, especially during wars. Really the gold standard was only adhered to when it was convenient, so historically it did not play the role that Austrians wish it would. Basically just because gold was historically used as currency does not mean that it controlled the money supply. For example, most sovereign transactions were simply recorded by symbolic ""money things.""* And even if the gold standard did automatically protect the value of money, inflation is a hell of a lot better than deflation anyway. You want to reward people for putting their money to work, not sticking it in a mattress.  *For further information on the history of gold currency and money in general, see section 2 of this article from the LSE: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268098000159"
You are correct in thinking actual number of shares do not matter, the value is the value.   However there are cases where share price does play a role.  Berkshire Hathaway for example has not split because Warren Buffet believes it has cut down on the liquidity of the stock, as well as attracting investors with an eye for the longer term.   There have also been things written on the psychology of a share price. For example, some people are attracted to shares that split, because it reflects a company is growing.
Over on investorguide.com there is an absolutely amazing strongly recommended essay which explores countless of different traits in search of a difference between investing and gambling, and they came up with the following two definitions: Investing: ""Any activity in which money is put at risk for the purpose of making a profit, and which is characterized by some or most of the following (in approximately descending order of importance): sufficient research has been conducted; the odds are favorable; the behavior is risk-averse; a systematic approach is being taken; emotions such as greed and fear play no role; the activity is ongoing and done as part of a long-term plan; the activity is not motivated solely by entertainment or compulsion; ownership of something tangible is involved; a net positive economic effect results."" Gambling: ""Any activity in which money is put at risk for the purpose of making a profit, and which is characterized by some or most of the following (in approximately descending order of importance): little or no research has been conducted; the odds are unfavorable; the behavior is risk-seeking; an unsystematic approach is being taken; emotions such as greed and fear play a role; the activity is a discrete event or series of discrete events not done as part of a long-term plan; the activity is significantly motivated by entertainment or compulsion; ownership of something tangible is not involved; no net economic effect results."" The very interesting thing about those definitions is that they capture very well the way those terms are used by most people, and they even acknowledge that a lot of 'investors' are gambling, and that a few gamblers are 'investing' (read the essay for more on that). And this fits well with the way those two concepts are understood by the public. So in those definitions normally buying a lottery ticket would indeed not be an investment, but if we take for example Vadim's operation example If you have $1000 and need $2000 by next week or else you can't have an operation and you will die (and you can't find anyone to give you a loan). Your optimal strategy is to gamble your $1000, at the best odds you can get, with a possible outcome of $2000. So even if you only have a 1/3 chance of winning and getting that operation, it's still the right bet if you can't find a better one.
So, the point of the article is that the taxpayers are making up for what Walmart isn't paying. But, walmart pays way more than what it's employees are using.  Employees use government programs, Walmartpays more than double of the cost of those programs, so no cost at all is passed to the taxpayers.  Walmart WOULD be evil if they didn't pay taxes. But they do.  The article is nonsense.   We get it. You don't like big business.
"&gt; I think the primary reason you're being down voted  I find the right obnoxious and the left repulsive.  Virtually every foolish thing in our society was born from the left and they should be roundly shown the distain their ideas deserve.  Now the right has joined the party and is using the exact same thug tactics to try to instantiate THEIR tyranny by government force.  It's revolting, but the left wins on just pure malice and stupidity.  &gt; all too often better candidates for a job are excluded in favor for those who are of similar religion or race as the employe  So what?  It's the employer's money and his/her company.  If they make these kinds of decision too often or too long, they will lose out competitively to people who do hire Best In Class.  &gt; Employing people to help create your master vision fundamentally incorporates compromise, for the betterment of society.  But I don't exist for the ""betterment of society"".  I exist to promote my interests, my family -  my enlightened self interest.  If I make bigoted hiring decisions and thereby exclude best-in-class employees it is *I* who will suffer, not society.  This is a self-regulating problem.  No one in their right mind wants to run a business with anything less than the best possible employees (at the lowest possible salary, BTW).  The Dirty Little Secret here is that EEOC rules do NOT promote Best in Class.  The Best In Class already have jobs and are in demand because - nothwithstanding the whining of the social do-gooders - no one can afford to ignore them as a substantial asset in the workforce, no matter how petty or bigoted any single person might otherwise be.  No, EEOC laws are designed to give substandard candidates jobs they are not qualified for, do not deserve, and cannot perform well.  This has the horrible secondary effect of having people quietly musing ""Did he get the job because he's Black/Jewish/Asian/Gay/ ..... or is he really good at it?""  It's not fair, but that's what tampering with meritocracy does."