vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"The COBRA idea is interesting but I am not sure it will be cheaper than Obamacare - health insurance is just insanely expensive; best for him to discreetly ask HR before leaping.  The ""good"" news is that in two years, he should be eligible for Medicare, which should be a better option. So as Dave said, go with Obamacare or COBRA depending on cost and other factors (doctors in network, etc.) and wait for Medicare to kick in. Also, given that his income is going to go very low really soon, he will be eligible for Obamacare low-income subsidies, which will reduce the bill even further. Further, if you get a Silver or Bronze Obamacare plan, you can stash away $3,300 in a Health Savings Account (HSA) tax free, which should further help with expenses. I am sorry your dad is having to leave his job of 30+ years because of some new jerk. However, I hope that the advice you get here will help you find good options for your dad."
"I'm a contractor, and I usually throw in a extra few hours for free during the week. A lot of us do. You want the employer to know that you're willing to put in the effort to help them succeed.        On the other hand, if they asked me to work a specific amount of OT a week, I'd get time and a half.       And most companies aren't going to work you 7 days a week,, 10 hours a day. Maybe around crunch time, but the rest of the time work is pretty normal. When my company's gearing up for a new project, I usually have a few weeks where work is minimal, and I have very little to do. I figure it balances out. Although I thought the end of the article was pretty funny. Like it was a high school guy saying ""Oh, yeah, well I knew a guy who worked so hard he dropped dead. So there!."""
It's a mutual agreement resulting in a trade of money for my services. I do it because I want to do things and provide for my family. I don't do it because someone decided to spend 4 years for a degree in graphic design and can't get a job. I also don't do it for people that have a cash only income (both illegal immigrants and legal citizens do this) and don't declare all of their income making them eligible for Obamacare. And, lastly, I do not do it for people that decide to live off of the system and are physically and mentally fit to work in some capacity. I should not be forced to pay a mandate just because I'm here breathing. Obama - just like all progressives - normalized this ""breathing"" tax. It isn't right. Of course, Obamacare falls apart if there aren't enough healthy people to subsidize the sick people. That's why the mandate was obviously put in place. But just because the mandate is needed to make it work, doesn't make it right to force on people. My mortgage needs to get paid. If all my neighbors chipped in $75/month, I could make it work. Well, is it right to force my neighbors to pay my mortgage? Nope. I made the decision to buy my house. They did not. Not to mention, with socialized health care, services are rationed and that is just sickening. Big Gov: ""Oh, you're 80 years old and you need a knew knee? Well, you did live for 80 years, so we're going to deny that request."" In a system where I pay for my own health care and insurance, I can get a new hip and a new knew if I needed it and it would all be done within a week or 2 most likely. You have 51 week-old Charlie Gard who Britain and the wonderful EU (sarcasm) ordered to die. He did so just last week even though his parents had the money to fly him here and have a doctor perform a potentially life-saving surgery. Yep. When the government owns healthcare, they own your health.
"&gt; those of us who showed the good judgement  If you call going $80,000 into debt for a ""professional certification"" (4-year degree) that verifies that you've read Kant or Marx from front to back ""good judgement"" then I guess so.  Lost in this whole thing is the fact that our college educated jobless want factory jobs in the first place. These guys are looking for veterains because they have been vetted by the military, they've proven some ability  adhere to a heirarchy/follow orders, and have shown an ability to work in a dangerous environment. If you can do that, I am sure they would love to hire you."
"I understand that, but in a field where so many do go by DJ [insert name] it can be a little off. I agree in almost any other case it wouldn't make any difference. When it comes to performers I think it's better to have their name accurately displayed, as it is their brand they are representing. Not a big deal, really. Just thought it was weak to not notice that when researching the piece. I think ""electronic artist"", ""musician"" or something else in that vein would have been better.   Then again, I work in that industry so I'm probably just being nitpicky.   **Edited for grammar**"
Time &amp; money. People have one or the other.   Even with a Pell Grant to attend school, it can be very hard to get a job that will accommodate a class schedule and also pay enough for basic living expenses. And many people around here were not encouraged to pursue education, because of the expense. And because, until 10-15 years ago, there were always factories hired and it was expected to start at 18 and stay until retirement.  I'm in my 30s and in school now, and it's taking me forever because I've had to change jobs, shuffle classes, and take time off in order to be able to pay bills and pursue my education.   If you do too well at work, they don't want to give you the time off to move forward (problem I had at a law office where I was working way more hours than hired for, then told I couldn't cut back to our original agreement when the next semester required more seated classes). If you don't excel, it's not worth their trouble to accommodate you because there are plenty of others begging for a job that can work whenever they're told.   And, in towns like this, I suspect part of it is a crabs in the bucket mentality.    40+ year old supervisors with GEDs sometimes don't like it when workers on the bottom rung are getting bachelor's degrees. The same in nursing - some of those LPNs &amp; ADN/RNs get a little touchy when the newer younger ones immediately go to work on their RN. (And EMTs that try to jump straight to Paramedic, or those going for 4 year Paramedicine degrees, are met with outright scorn. Although there are some reasons for that, mainly lack of real world experience).
Thanks for the feedback obelus,   The cost is $20,000 to 50,000 sqft.   Ya I am just looking for a rough idea of what a similar newer building is costing I figured what we are paying is really high as the building is extremely old and designated as a heritage site so we can't just knock it down. Beautiful building just not very efficient.   The newer building is the route I think we are gonna end up going not sure what we can do with the current building as not too many options for resale. We can't adjust the lease rates to compensate for the cost as the tenants are all seniors and it is an integrated care home. A change to apartments would prove difficult as there are no kitchens in 90% of the suites.  We are currently paying approximately $0.40 psf a month to heat (All electric) and the estimate for the new building is $0.1425 psf (Geothermal) so it is a pretty huge impact in comparison if it is possible but I haven't heard of a real building actually costing that little before.   Thanks for the suggestion for the IR I think I am gonna get some one in after the holidays to do a inspection to see if there is any short term fixes we can do with our system.
I download and use very few apps. But I did buy Swiftkey a while ago. For my phone and my wife's.  I was happy to pay the 3-4 bucks.  When I see an app that's free, I'm thinking :  1- It's going to be a buggy piece of crap  2- It's going to ad spam my eyese relentlessly.  Paying 3 bucks and having a quality add-free software is an excellent trade off.
"I get it - you hate california, as evidenced by you calling it ""the most overrated strip of land on God's green earth.""  Your clearly biased against the area.  But the numbers work out.  Your not just making three figures - in my offer, and in most mid career offers, your making 200k+.  You talk about these groups of triple digit income devs living in a house together - yeah this does happen in some cases, mostly in San Fran.  Look dude, I have friends out there who work for these companies, I've been offered and done the math knowing the real facts.  I'm not here to say California, and more specifically the valley is cheap, I'm just saying for someone in tech the money usually works out as better out here (if your not buying a house, I should mention - I'm younger and have no desire to be tied down to a house), the career trajectory perks are here, and the perks and nature factor are real.  I live in the Midwest - I get it, you like it here.  But of you think having to drive 3 hours down to red river gorge to see actual terrain, as in something more than ant hills, is great access to nature then we clearly have different ideas on what sorts of nature we enjoy.  I myself am a backpacker and mountain biker so the west coast is much better for my hobbies.  Moab would be ideal, but there are no jobs there, but that's part of the reason I turned down my valley offers for a 100% remote gig so I can travel to those sorts of areas."
It makes sense to me. Amazon will now have a much better supply chain for grocery products. It's been trying to get into the business for a few years now, and this is a huge step in making that entry sustainable and more profitable. I think a big reason for this buy was whole foods strong reputation and weak finances. 13B is a huge number, but a solid investment for Amazon that I can think will pay off in the long run.
"America just needs to get the cash out. I believe in the power of government to better everyone's lives.  But I'm in NZ.  Low corruption here with a strong safety net.  Universal health care. I have a hospital appointment tomorrow.  They are going to fix my chest deformity for free even though technically it's ""cosmetic"".  I was earning $50 an hour mowing lawns for 6 years.  I did a double degree in the late 90s for about $7k a year.  My Asthma medicine costs $5.00.  My brother had cancer - treated free (he's fine now).  My Mum's heart attack - free (she's all good too).  If you start from such a depressed place (believe me I get why Americans feel the way they do) I think you run the risk of ending up in a rather cynical place - government can't help me.  You got republicans essentially running on a ticket of ""government doesn't work"" and ensuring it doesn't by their actions.   I dunno mate.  Keep your chin up.  I feel like America is getting close to a real jolt to get it back on track.  She's really out of step with other comparable countries.  America is still great despite itself.  But it'll get back on track.  The boomers will die off and progress will become possible again."
Couldn't have asked for a better response. As for my courses, yes I had various group projects in different classes, with my capstone finance course being entirely group project based, so that would definitely put a dent in the required hours. But still the whole thing seems a bit arbitrary doesn't it? There's no real way of keeping track of hours, then again I haven't done much research on the program yet and if it comes down to the wording I can probably make it work as it is.  Regardless thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I am for sure interested in the PMP and in the mean time ill check out what you suggested. Appreciate it.
Are you serious?  I used to get the occasional cold call at the last place I worked at.  You can just smell them and I got them off the phone ASAP.  I think cold calls are *incredibly* fucking rude and I hate people who make them.  My advice is to find another way to make sales.  If you are an intrusive asshole who wastes my time you will get absolutely nothing from me.  And I am not the only one who feels that way.   A cold call is like going up to a complete stranger, smacking them in the face and then asking them to buy something from you.  It just doesn't work very well.
Or you know, going from 28k to 50k because I got my degree was 100% worth the 66k of debt I took out to fund myself. Spending 100k overall to get my wife and me through school bumped our pay by 40k a year.   In honesty, even a lot of risk-averse people look at school and think it's a great plan because, by and large, in-demand degrees pay for themselves quickly when the economy isn't in a recession.   edit: to further clarify, a lot of our debt was used for daycare and paying our mortgage and bills while we did school. The tuition itself was almost entirely paid for through grants and scholarships. It wasn't like playing the lottery, it was a methodical and logical approach to handling our finances that led us both to agree that quitting work for a couple years was worthwhile, and we had the credit and FICO score to pull it off.
My dad is the head of his department at a major hospital and I've listened to him bitch about hours for the last 15 years+.  The reality is that with meetings, administrative work, teaching/research responsibilities (when he was at a hospital at a university), etc., all of his work combined often adds up to 80ish a week. His actual shift work is significantly less than that.  As far as IB goes, I only know what I've seen. I don't live in NYC and I am not in IB, but I know people who are and the stories have been overwhelmingly in favor of the 80-100 hour weeks. My friend lives in Houston (Houston! Not even NYC!) and he comes home at like 2 am most nights (studying for mcat + stressful job). He often beats his roommate, an analyst at a 2nd tier bank, home.
"&gt; She didn't know that having sex can lead to kids? I mean, you'd think she might have at least pieced it together after the first one.  I don't think you realize how ignorant people can be. Nor how uneducated as to what options they have or more importantly who will pay for those options since they are probably just as broke as they were before the kid.  &gt; At what point do people's bad decisions stop being society's burden to bear?  This isn't that point.  &gt; If I decide to take on insurmountable debt because I don't know any better, should everyone else be forced to pick up the tab?  Not really a fair comparison, but no I don't think we should let you starve. Idiot or otherwise.  &gt; A $15/hr minimum wage would ruin our economy and cause a lot more suffering and homelessness.  Prove it, name an example country that is now a devastated wasteland for providing decent wages alone.  &gt; Just because we want to help people (and I do feel bad for her), if we put policies in place that will ruin everyone, we don't get off the hook just by blaming it on other factors or because ""we didn't see it coming"".  What policies would those be? I'm waiting for that ruined country.  &gt; In a way, making bad policy decisions that will fuck up our entire country is kind of a large scale version of what Fran and many others have done to their own life.  Real world example or I am going to continue to assume you live in a alt-right fantasy."
I personally keep my LinkedIn and personal website updated and go to plenty of developer meetings. Fuck stagnation.I'm not about to work in a field for a single penny less than I make now. If I was doing development the company culture should be better and management should be respectful of my time at the least, but trying to work for the pittance they try to put out is ridiculous when you know your skills will earn them double what you make (or more.)
I am going to read the article now; but first I wanted to say that the Cisco platform is very old and that it is not impossible for another company to make switches that hedge new technology. It seems only natural that Huawei would be able to give them a good run.
I can personally recommend MoneyWell. I've been using it for about a month now, and version 1.5 that was just released is a great upgrade from the previous version. The developer was very responsive during the open beta period, and from what I understand an iPhone version is in the works. (and no, I don't work for the publisher!) That aside, I've used a few other packages. I tried out iBank, which was fairly nice, but the account downloading functionality left a lot to be desired. I come from a MS Money background, and I am used to a seamless, reliable download scheme, and iBank's was (unfortunately) neither. Otherwise the interface was very nice. I had settled on MoneyDance before I found MoneyWell, and it's a pretty nice package. Unfortunately it's a Java application and doesn't adhere to most OSX interface practices. While the account downloading is substantially better than iBank's, the ugly interface made moving away from it fairly easy once I found something that had feature parity.
I use to think there was something wrong with me because I always hated spending money.  This hatred of spending resulted in me always saving quite a bit of my income. Since I don't enjoy spending it, why am I making and saving it (besides for an emergency fund)?  I've come to the realization that I enjoy my free time more than I enjoy making lots of money.  So I go to work for something to do - and pay the bills - but I am no longer trying to advance my career, or be the best at my profession, or climb some corporate ladder, or be some superstar.  In fact, I'm considering a career change where I would make half of what I'm making now. What's my point?  If having a lot of savings depresses you and you don't enjoy spending it then consider reducing your income.
"I personally believe if one (average) income could support the needs of a family (nothing extravagant) and the parents had options (instead of only one of the parents having the ability to work for an income that supports a family) it would be better. At the micro view, there would be less grudges and more time for family. I feel bad now bc I'm stretched so thin I don't even have time to watch a tv show with our kids during the week.   In our situation, my husband never finished school (his mom let him drop out in the 7th grade) so his work options are very limited. He has had to work out of town jobs since before we started dating. I graduated high school but due to having kids early, I put off college. Because of the expense of daycare, I stayed at home with the kids for about 5 years. The plan is I get my degree next fall, get a decent paying job to support the family  and he can figure out what he wants to do as a career and be able to pursue it without having the pressure of HAVING to make an income to support a family. I have been nudging him to at least get an online high school diploma in the mean time but I think he is self conscious and scared he can't do it. We aren't the ""Keeping up with the Jones"" kind of people. I'm just trying to reach some goals and be financially stable and not worry about if we have enough money in the bank for bills or if the car breaks down if we are screwed.   A teacher's job is very time consuming so it definitely will be a challenge if you don't work a job that allows you to help out. At my internship this summer the CFO was able to just leave and bring his daughter to work whenever he needed to. That luxury is not afforded to many.   Also on a side note- when you have kids, please make an effort to take your paternity leave if your job offers it. You deserve it! Employees shouldn't feel bad for taking the benefits their company offers. Gender equality ftw!"
I'm fairly intelligent, and I'm willing to work my ass off. But I only have a high school degree and no real marketable skills. I don't drink or get high, I'm not even looking to become wealthy as I'm not very materialistic, I just want to earn enough to pay for the basics, save up, and room to grow in case I ever want a family
I will never tip an Uber driver unless it's something seriously extraordinary. I've used it for a while and still do and the prices are the same. I've talked to many, many drivers and they all talk about the money they make and the hours they work. No thanks, there's no way I'm going to start doing that all the sudden and I'm not going to feel guilty for not either. This was a big part of why I liked Uber in the first place.
Yes, it was. Just in my group of friends, we have had about a 50% job placement rate so far, and we were the overachievers in the program. On top of that, I grew up in a home with technology. I was on dos when I was 2. There were some people who studied for hours, but couldn't understand subnetting to save their life, let alone routing protocols. Their brain just didn't work that way.   I mean, don't get me wrong, I worked my butt off and I'm proud of it, but I am super lucky that I was able to land a job 2 weeks after graduation. And if anyone understands luck, it's a god of chaos.
I worked on it for 8 months, I kept asking about it too. Their job posting was also terrible and they roped me in on it at the end and I gained the responsibility of recruiting and vetting (yay for that one actually...). We hired another replacement for me, I trained them too, and left immediately. Actually I regret staying there as long as I did. They gaslit me and I shouldn't have tried to make up for their incompetence. They actually made me a contractor at the end so I was getting paid half of what I originally was. Before I left I asked for a competitive raise and the company owner basically lied about details and tried to tell me what a fuss I was trying to talk about my happiness and what I want once a year... It was surreal but they agreed to bump my pay in the end. However, I was furious by their treatment and reply (which BTW came after I 'suddenly did not show up' despite bolding and clearly stating I would cease work with them and informing the people I worked with on the last day that I heard nothing back from the owner about a new/extended contract), so I said no. I don't know how to negotiate. I am too humble. Selling oneself or seeing someone sell themselves makes me physically uncomfortable. It is completely unnatural, and sets off my bullshit alarms. Actually I seem to have some PTSD from that job, now, too...
Take your time. When I started my business I thought I had a killer name at first and a few weeks later I found a much better one. Brainstorm with your partners.  For an internet business having a short domain name is going to matter, and you should really try to get a .com. A .us or .io are also good, but if the .com is already taken people will confuse them for you so it's good to get the .com first. Make sure you don't have any weird characters in your domain like hyphens which are harder to type on a mobile device.