vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
I'm not quite sure what version of reality you were watching during the past 6 weeks, but the customers did absolutely boycott this store.  I was one them.  If you had bothered to step out with any of these protesters, you would have found associates and customers alike.  The store remained opened and there was always merchandise to buy.  I went into my store, repeatedly during this 6 week boycott and the shelves were always stocked and being stocked.  Meat, produce, seafood, and some dairy was not being delivered because, if it was not being bought, it was just being thrown away.  Many vendors had stepped forward and publicly stated that because of the Board's irresponsibility in their handling with the Artie T matter, it was costing them business and they were no longer going to do business with Market Baskett until ATD was reinstated.  This was a boycott, because putting a financial stranglehold on the business was the only way to make the Board listen to what was being said.
Not limiting... I just would not excel at that. I learn socializing a lot slower than others, I like being honest and straight forward above manipulating people with psychology. Heck, I'd say I'm on the spectrum. It goes against what I am to be managing people. It goes against what I believe.  It is a shame the world thinks such paths are superior.
"&gt; And what the hell would you use instead of ""going forward""?  ""From now on?""   As in:  ""Going forward, we will only touch base via email, unless we need to take it offline, in which case please reach out and we can do a coffee.""  --- Versus ---  ""Learn to communicate in plain English, you pathetic corporate drone""."
Ha I'll probably be down voted with this too but, I guess we have a bunch of selfish capitalists in here.  Yes, in our current system that situation is luck.  No doubt you and your father worked hard to get you where you are today, but there are others working just as hard that wont be as lucky.  Your father had a fairly stable career, being an officer.  What if you were born to a single mother?  Maybe a family that was split apart when the father's job was outsourced?  Maybe you were born into a bad neighborhood with crappy schools?  How would your current plan have turned out?  Yeah, investing isn't like a casino, but there is risk involved.   I know about index funds, but as you know a lot of the market has to do with timing.  Tell the poor guy who was 65 in 2008 and wanted to retired how that whole index fund investment worked out.  Society create a situation for you where you could succeed.  We, the tax payers, paid for your fathers career.  Your schooling was partially made possible by the government.  The government also supports the legal system so you can invest your capital in the first place, and the infrastructure for those companies to succeed.  If you want to retire at 35 that's great,  however if you are advocated for less taxes in order to do that you are robbing others of a chance to realize their own dreams.
That is a false equivalence.  That worked because Microsoft is in a dominant position, owns the channel and could afford to lose money on its platform for a long time. I don't remember how long MSFT lost money on the XBox. It might still be doing it and making money some other way,  Would XBox have even worked if all Microsoft did was to charge a monthly fee for using the XBox, while the rest of the platform was owned by Sony(or Nintendo) and they had a strong incentive to not let MS succeed?
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depends entirely on the scope and where your chokepoints are.   if its a question of ginormeous amounts of data being stored in your spreadsheet and then extracted/joined with a mess of index match functions, that can quickly run up in size, and can be deftly replaced with a powerquery setup.   If it's a computation that requires a few iterative steps or complex nested lookups, but with simple inputs, then a few simply scripted UDFs can lower the complexity (and workload and size) of the workbook.   OP also mentions that the workbook is used for the display. If there is a lot of repeated deletion and adding of formats, sometimes workbook size can be seriously affected by these things cluttering up the sheet, and it can be useful to just clear those outs.   I'd say it makes sense to move away from workbooks and into something more technical if you the organizational support to do so. If one person sits and codes models in python but none of his colleagues can work on it or fix it, and it's not documented correctly, and there's no support structure, then I'd be cautious of transferring something business critical to that structure, rather than optimizing the solution that people are familiar with and can modify themselves.   But if it's a tech-savvy organization that recruits accordingly and has the technical support structures to implement changes and modifications as required by the business, I don't see any problem in using other tools.
All the comments seem to accept the slap on the wrist and move along. The law obviously exists for a reason. If we are allowing it, then why the law? What makes them exempt?   First few times, get fined. Anything after,  LARGE fines (6+ figures). If you do it again, obviously you don't know how to follow the rules. Lose your license.    Honestly, why condone this and other behavior?
&gt; To imply a grand conspiracy...  No conspiracy required.  All you have to agree with is that having money makes it easier to make money and society will sort itself into classes that become further apart and harder to move between.  &gt; How about it is hard work and good parenting?  Those are important but exist in both rich and poor areas and it is a simple fact that you would get further with hard work and good parenting in a rich area than in a poor one.  I think a good way to describe it is inequality of affluent opportunity and experience.
Satya has amazingly turned MS around. They were the laughing stock of most developers for many years but have picked up a number of big name developers, released a lot of great developer tools and are starting to be relevant again. It's an amazing transformation and for the first time in my life I'm looking forward to what they do next.
The only legit criticism of this that I can see is employees are not compensated for wear and tear or gas. That's such a tiny thing though, and extremely common. I'm not sure this is really a wise business move, but no need for pitchforks (or rather, no additional need for pitchforks over the standard level appropriate for Walmart employee practices).
If this 'scam' has a name, address and/or phone number, I forward it to the FBI anonymously. That is my advice.  You may also wish to consult a lawyer.
"man your insults are really shit. almost as bad as your literacy.   looking forward to the next great question you posit to r/finance. maybe such challengers as ""what's a stock index"" and ""i bought uvxy - what is it?"""
"liquid asset A sunk cost may turn out to be a loss or it may make you a profit, but what makes it ""sunk"" is: you can't get it back.  The opposite is a cost that you can later redeem, which makes it ""liquid""."
micro venture capital investments and SoLoMo are the current buzz words in the investment community. Jordan Combe, a London based investor and entrepreneur is keen on helping businesses of any kind, not just the glamorous hi-profile hi-tech ones succeed with careful financing and management
Today's rate is 23.21 bps.  I'm going to list years forward, spot rate, forward rate.  1, 30.27, 61.77   2, 63.64, 155.73   3, 107.15, 228.04   4, 143.16, 266.31   5, 172.55, 290.12  These are bids, but mids are all within a basis point
"&gt; How is putting a gun to a persons head and saying give me your money or else I will cuff you and put you in jail not stealing?  I've had [other discussions about why taxes are not theft](https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/6leb2o/missouri_republicans_lower_st_louis_minimum_wage/dju1jjp/).  &gt; If...they aren't disabled then they are just lazy.  I think there are a whole lot of people who struggle to work but are neither.  How about a single mother with young kids and no help?  Someone raised on the street with no idea what it takes to get a job?  Someone with general pain or fibromayalgia?  Someone addicted to drugs or alcohol?  Maybe just someone who just can't take control of his or her life because a lowered IQ caused by lead poisoning or poor nutrition as a child?  I totally agree that a ""tough love"" approach is a great solution for lazy but if the person has a real problem or lacks the tools to succeed, then the approach is not only cruel but will push the person into what looks like from the outside as more irresponsible behavior."
"As someone who works in tech and has seen a thing or two, the fallacy of moving to college towns to foster innovation is a farce. The whole reason businesses do this is to get an endless supply of cheap labor from new graduates who don't have families, thus will work nights and weekends for free to make a name for themselves. Once those kids wise up and maybe want to start a family, they move to suburbs away from these college towns and leave those companies which leads to high attrition rates for mid level employees. This also leads to inferior products from a ""high technology"" standpoint because of lack of senior mentors and you end up with shit projects just slapped together that just barely work. Would you want your GE jet engines designed on the cheap by recent graduates or disciplined engineers? I'm not saying it's a bad business decision, it is totally valid and smart for some markets, but it seems like GE has their hands in important technology that shouldn't be designed like this. If they want to reinvent themselves why not make a Boston technology center for innovation, not move their whole business? It just didn't make sense."
The fifth in our series of blogs on what keeps retail CIOs awake at night focuses on the big question of ’out of the box’ or customisation.  The classic question for an Retail IT Director a generation ago was whether to buy or build a retail software solutions. Traditional IT departments were structured typically with large development teams who were quite capable of developing large scale applications as well as modifications to existing systems.  The classic question for an Retail IT Director a generation ago was whether to buy or build a retail software solutions. Traditional IT departments were structured typically with large development teams who were quite capable of developing large scale applications as well as modifications to existing systems.  Moving forward to the present and the recent history of apps, out-sourcing, agile methodology, off-shoring and near-shoring and the question has changed more into whether it is better to deploy a ready built solution in ‘vanilla’ flavor, i.e. as it comes out of the box. Or whether it is preferable to take the application in standard form and customise it to meet the particular needs of our business.
No. That's the point of a passive strategy: you maintain a more or less constant mix of assets and don't try to figure out what's going to move where.
It is fully coupled with three channel system and makes it so easy to reach in a higher range. With this you are guaranteed to make the descent and flight up, forward and back as well as left and right.  This shows that you can also make reverse flight tips with less effort. It comes with a gyro system, which gives the heli sufficient stability.  The included remote control includes a trimmer as well as the mobile controls. The main function of the trimmer is that it completely compensates for any negative orientation.  For example, if the helicopter appears to lean further to the left, you can easily turn the trimmer to compensate. Also, keep in mind that RC helicopters work with infrared controls. This means they tend to be flown more slowly in direct sunlight.
"Share value is not always an indication of true value. Citi was proactive in trying to find bidders for their business segments which posed the most risk to their traditional banking business.   They have expanded into many emerging markets during Pandit and ""slimmed down"" their operations. They also just got rid of Smith Barney... which I think is a great move. I think Citi has a brighter future than say, BoA."
This becomes a problem of infinite regression.  A person is *lucky* if they have non-abusive parents. A person is *lucky* if they don't get into a car accident at 17. A person is *lucky* if they are born in the United States versus the third world.  A person is *lucky* to be born in the 21st century versus the 8th century. A person is *lucky* to exist at all.  Luck is undoubtedly an important factor in success. It has to be. But how are we interpreting luck? Is luck just another word for things beyond our individual control? Just for complete randomness? I don't think anyone would argue that luck isn't important.  However, we can't have that mean that people who succeed don't deserve their success. One person might start a cupcake bakery and be extremely successful. Another person might work just as hard at their bakery and fail. The former person could have had a better location, better name, better advertising - hell they could just be a better baker period.  The point is that as long as that success is earned through individuals rewarding your value - there should be no problem with *luck* being a factor. The only time luck should be an issue is when a person is *lucky* to know the right political connections so they earn their income through political opportunism rather than market forces. The randomness of luck is actually what makes it fair - nobody truly controls it. It emerges based on the actual wants and actions of other individuals either buying your products, patronizing your store, or paying your wages.
"This guy said something like ""I won't hire AND I might lay people off AND I might close down shop if any taxes go up."" That is nonsense.  There is a level of burden at which a given business will fold. There is no currently healthy business is at the point where one additional penny of taxes will cause them to close their doors.   Either this guy is making future excuses for a problem he already has but hasn't announced, or he's being overly ridiculous to make a political point. Either move is shady.  That being said, I agree with your assessment 100%. Burden impacts investment."
"Yeah, I don't think ""millennials"" are the ones to win over here. I had the opportunity to dinner at Applebee's twice, once in 1999, and then in 2013.  The Applebee's in Miami, Florida, was a cheerful place, the food was good and fresh, and the local chef had an exclusive hot wings recipe. We had a great time.  Now fast forward to Applebee's in NY, 2013. Weird place, awful attendance, tasteless food. Now, I don't know what happened there, but you can't usually justify your lack of managing and hard work on ""tendencies"".  Innovation and offering more than expected can do wonders for your business."
Libraries pay the author for the books.  Also, before Internet distribution, people would buy books, regardless of whether it was in a library or not.  Going forward, if a book is available for free on the internet, why would you go buy it?  What incentive would the author have to keep writing?  I'd hate to see Malcolm Gladwell &amp; Seth Godin stop writing because they couldn't afford to anymore.
Did you even read the article?  Did you read what the government put out this week?  In places where the state government set up their own systems the insurance companies have stabilized the markets and made a very good profit last year. The only places it's failing are places where republicans did nothing to help it succeed. If you actually think this legislation is failing you've bought into the republican talking points.
My problem is these massive national/global companies don't give a shit about their employees. Why care where there's a thousand more that will work harder for less. They are taking advantage of us. If your business cannot sustain itself while properly paying it's workers, it isn't a business that should exist. Why do I need to make shit when my CEO makes millions upon millions. Trickle down my ass.
The raiders will still exist.  They just might move.  That's kind of a cheap bet.  Then there's Suzuki.  Are they claiming all of Suzuki will fold or just the car business?  As far as I knew they were still doing well with motorcycles.
See, the reason why this is still not good is this: the companies that determine the “use by” date are the same companies that profit by you throwing it away and buying more, sooner than is necessary.   To me, that’s a direct conflict of interest.   What we actually need is a requirement to have an independent company determine the literal “use by” dates.   This is a good step forward in terms of understanding something, but still ignores a glaring conflict of interest.
"very smart viewpoint in my very humble opinion- ""The lesson is that there’s more than one way for a state to have a successful economy. That’s a sentiment that is seldom shared because you can’t score partisan points saying things like, “There is more than one way to do something.” Don’t @ me, but maybe states can be highly taxed and highly regulated like California, or maybe they can be more business-friendly like Texas, and they can each succeed in a way that pleases their citizens.""  http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/texanomics/article/Gov-Abbott-keeps-bashing-California-but-Texas-11202452.php"
I'm a democrat so get off your midget-horse. If there are no jobs in your city, yes you should move.  I did and as did all 3 of my siblings. Pretty much every single person I went to college with moved from their hometown as well to pursue a better paycheck. Moving for work has always been an integral part of the American psyche, it's literally how your state was founded and what separated us from Europeans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.   What do you want to have happen?  You want the federal government to force companies to move to your home state?  You want to pay a bunch of corporate welfare to entice a company to move for you?  If anything you should be pissed that your state government has created such a toxic environment that no one wants to open a business there besides those looking to exploit your natural resources. Your economy sucks because of your local politics - almost everywhere else is doing well as far as employment goes. There should be wage increases happening right now that aren't but if we don't go into recession they will go up soon. They are going to have to. But only in those places with diverse economies built on future tech energy models.   Don't get mad at me, get mad at yourself and those around you. You all have voted for republicans who have dicked you over for decades yet it's always someone else's fault. I understand you're a democrat personally so you of all people should understand this.
This is potentially a real risk to Google. The odds of such a huge success it decreases Google's profits are tiny (I think). But there is a real risk that the increase in Google's profits going forward are materially affected by a well done competitor to Adsense.  If Amazon took away 10% of what Google's Adsense business 4 years from now would have been that is likely material to Google's earning. Not huge but real.  Even losing the ads on Amazon's web site is likely noticeable (though not a huge deal I would guess to Google - though to most companies it would be a huge lose).  There is even the potential Google has to reduce their profitability on AdSense to compete - giving web sites a better cut of revenue.  That said I think Amazon has plenty of challenges to making it an effective competitor to Google. But they have a chance. And there is even a small chance (very small I think) that Amazon could create a competitor that actually results in noticeably (say over 15%) declining revenue to Google via Adsense. Likely even in this case Google continues to grow profit as a company overall.  Google revenue from ads from their own websites are the most important earnings and likely to continue to be so. Also new business (non web-ad-income) is growing and I think will continue to do so (this is likely an area some might find more questionable).
I love his example of channels that everyone watches still, in the midst of the collapse of the entire TV business:  &gt; **The majority of what we pay our cable company is wasted.** We get broadband Internet from our cable company, and we use that constantly. But we also get 500 channels that we almost never watch, along with a couple (HBO, Tennis Channel) that we pay extra for and do watch occasionally.  Ah yes, what *would* we do without the Tennis Channel. Fast forward 10 years: only the Internet and the Tennis Channel are left standing, and are in fierce competition.
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There were and are a ton of talented people. A lot of talented people have come and gone. But a ridiculous amounts of projects and partnerships were put forward throughout the 90s. They failed on a number of fronts. Talk to older guys, they saw everything coming, management just didn't agree from wayyyy back.