vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
They've had a lot of growth, but the price levels in the stock market, real estate market, etc. are pretty questionable and doubtlessly over inflated. They're essentially propped up on the belief that the central government will bailout the necessary parties before any sort of crash.  I think the numbers this year are particularly suspect due to Xi's new array of policies. He seems to be rather unpopular right now, so he'll be wanting to use any good news to his advantage, and fabricate good news if there isn't any.
&gt;But that's basically what the military is. One big jobs program    The military is one of those peculiar government expenses where, under ideal circumstances (peace), is a waste of societal resources, but in the worse case scenario (being attacked by a foreign power), is an absolute necessity.  The US military in particular, is well known for having more spent on it than all of our closest economic competitors combined, albeit with reports that it might not be spent very efficiently. It could be reduced quite a lot without endangering US territorial safety at all, although I'm sure a few well-connected arms manufacturers would complain.  Even aside from that, however, I was thinking mainly about the sheer amount of money involved in Quantitative Easing (QE). The big banks received at least hundreds of billions, if not trillions, multiple times. But without increasing economic demand, there is no reason for existing businesses to look for loans, so all that money didn't have anywhere to go except for the increasingly complex financial games that the banks play with each other.  Imagine if all that money had simply been used to hire people to work. That's economic stimulus right at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Those people are much more likely to spend on real things that will create an economic demand.
"I suspect the old people (who deserve to be shot for the state of these days) expect they'll die of natural causes before anyone born before 1970 learns that they've been handed the BILL for those parasites' retirement of USELESS consumerism.  If you're going to have a government, they need a BASIC fundamental plan that WORKS. If they don't, they NEED to be overthrown, with violence, if necessary. However, who's to say what's ""viable"" given the ACTUAL history of the human species.  If there is a god, or a benevolent nature, then the causes of this, ""winners"", need to be exterminated for the good of the species. The meek will NEVER ""win"", there is NO winning. The troglodytes who fly the ""flag"" of winning should be eliminated."
The smartphone craze has definitely spread like wildfire since the introduction of the iPhone back in 2007. Smartphones have become a necessity thanks to the multitude of applications that can be used even by children with almost no supervision needed.
It really wasn't necessary, as rising wages in China are competing with wages here. All we had to do was get to the point where China wasn't dirt cheap anymore.  Also dealing with the corruption overseas certainly doesn't help. People say that complying with US regulations is burdensome, but not nearly as burdensome as not knowing what bribes you will have to pay when.
"An actual degree may not be necessary in 18 years as ""non-traditional"" education becomes more openly available. Sources such as Lynda.com, Coursera, MIT's OpenCourseWare, Duolingo, etc, are dramatically lowering the bar to getting a decent education.  While these types of resources won't take the place of a degree, if only the ultra-wealthy can afford college in the future (at least in the States), we'll see even more jobs being taken by people from other countries, where education is free or, at least, significantly less expensive due to the lack of education and experience our own over-priced universities will cause."
Are there any examples of compulsory paternity (or maternity) leave in the world? Where required, employers must offer it, and it is medically necessary for women to have some time to recover from the stress of childbirth, but I don't believe it's forced on the parents. I do believe, though, that many men would take the opportunity for paternity leave if it were more convenient than spending vacation or sick days (which aren't always available).
Damn. I just looked to confirm. Without reinvestment (but just holding dividends), looks like the return through 2013 is 0 and then there have been decent returns since 2013, but holy shit, it does not look good at all. All of that not adjusted for inflation.  I wonder how much of that shitty performance can be reasonably classified as 'necessary' due to the spin-off of GE Capital, which generated a lot of the profit for GE but really was a huge problem for them when liquidity became scarce in 2008.
"&gt; cost of living for ""basic living""(whatever that means)  ""By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but what ever the customs of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-laborer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into, without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England.""  - Adam Smith on relative poverty, The Wealth of Nations  &gt; Because without central authority, you cannot actually change the price of a good permanently.   Who said I wanted to do that?"
In general yes, however you are creating a false dichotomy. I can choose to fly and accept that level of radiation, and fly safely, all without the TSA being involved. The radiation on the plane is a necessary risk that must be accepted for flying, whereas going through TSA is not.
As of now the two scenarios are very similar if not the exact same concept. At this point, DB is not legally required to fulfill that request. Maybe eventually they will be but right now no they are not.  That only leaves the other element of ethical obligations which is what I agree with...except that's exactly the same conflict Apple had when they refused to give the US government access to a terrorist's phone (which of course had been suspected to possibly contain information relevant to other plans)  Edit: the main point is both these companies stand to gain from refusing to follow a reasonable government request. I'm not saying DB or even Apple made the right choice overall but both companies of course had good business-minded reasoning for refusing to help the government reaching out to them in each case
Yup, and fortunately there are vocal (and voter) people on both sides of most issues, making the center unnecessary for voting. If the system gets too crazy, the middle will act.  So I'm not too worried. The vocal kids you worry about are like the 60's peace, love, and freedom hippies that grew up and became the respectable capitalists in the 1980's. Youthful idealism gets replaced with respect for reality.
China is doing this more out of necessity than any futuristic, environmentalist mindset. They're starting to see the writing on the wall - they will suffer some of the most damage due to the crap we as a species have put our planet through.
"That seems to happen a lot. A lot of awesome potential is utterly wasted because old people are in charge who are too used to things being _one_ way to see that things are changing. They figure that if they just stay put they'll anchor reality and things will stay the way they always have. They're vital, they're necessary, the world can't move very far without them!  Nope. Sorry. The world says, ""Bye!"""
&gt; And here is an example that I am sure you will be thrilled about: eminent domain. It almost always sucks for the land owner, but if done right can benefit society at large greatly.  Eminent domain is unnecessary to build roads and other infrastructure.  You are willing to participate in an unethical act just because it is convenient to a powerful few?
They are a blueprint with very fuzzy boundaries, which do not in any way completely determine who an individual is as a person. The environment makes further alterations to this blueprint, and finally free will and consciousness allow yet another way to determine how we act and think.
Here's my opinion.  Families are going to have to hang together more. Since employment is so unstable, they need a way to get through the bumps. Several adults (plus children) living like a clan can do this, and family ties help with the social problems. We already are seeing adult children staying at home now.  Families need to build up capital too. In this new world, anyone who doesn't have some capital (i.e. a piece of the pie) is going to be an utter serf. If you're a serf, it's going to be extremely hard to build it up, most everything will go to just survival. Dividend or rent paying capital gives some independence. Families should prioritize working together to have some, even if it means sacrificing entertainment, eating out, etc.
Wow that's new and exciting. But I think that humans have that potential to bring out something that uniquely is their own in whatever they are making.   Yes armies of man and women working routine jobs will eventually be replaced by software or robots. I guess then those people will need to use creativity or learn new skills and adapt to what is needed. Probably new trends and new needs and new problems and opportunities will emerge. I doubt that automatic future is so very close. It's more like specific in some areas of business models, but not overall phenomenon that will change world to be unreconizable, at least not so soon.
The fundamental question remains - why was the change so necessary? Google Maps' platform is very open and easy for developers to build upon. I don't see why adding guided turn-by-turn required a complete rehash and rebuild of a maps program. (Not to mention, it doesn't even work on the iPhone 4.)  It is that bad, because what was provided before was that good.
Hmmm... I am self employed.. and I spend what ever time is necessary to learn the required skills... this year I spent hundreds of hours learning about website development.  Ultimately it's your choice... if you can outsource some of the learning curve, why not...  You either need to have the skills yourself, or know people who can do the work for you. BTW.. finding the right people is another skill.
"&gt; The fact that there is way more educated people than is even remotely necessary. Yes, you got it! I agree with you and this is the bottom of line of the whole story. Once, to finish high school was not an easy accomplishment. To be accepted to college was an accomplishment, to survive the first year was an accomplishment, and not to mention to graduate with a bachelor degree. The few who managed to accomplished that were accomplished men and women who got full benefits of their accomplishments, guaranteed!!!! Today, also as a former adjunct professor in college, I can tell you you that anyone graduates from high school (""no student left behind""), everyone(!), many barely know how to read, write or even tackle a simple logical question. And same in college: I was told I can't fail my students except in extreme cases. So what do we have here? You said it correct and clearly: &gt;Everybody having a college degree drives the value down for everybody...which is exactly what is happening. Further! It's just an industry to make money, put people into debt, give them almost worthless pieces of papers, force them to also study for a master's degree and reduce the pay for qualified people with degrees. Even Harvard! You would think that for $80,000/year tuition, you get good education. Instead, you are put in a auditorium with 500 other students for lectures. &gt; Things need to be turned on their head. Yes! You got it here too! &gt; I propose that Colleges need to receive their income as a percentage of the first 10-15 years of income from their students. Disagree! I propose to make the requirements for finish high school and college degrees much much higher, as it was in the past. As you said, too many people have [worthless] degrees!!!! The few who get degree, are accomplished people and will reap the benefits, including their employers. This is also the best formula for people to come out of poverty and low social-economic family background.
Yeah but that wasn't the whole point behind his statement, which was offered in support of the notion that the low-height zoning was the reason for the housing shortage. The reason population density matters is that it's been necessary for Japan to build expensive, high rise housing that's earthquake resistant. Until recently, it would have been unnecessary to zone differently in New Zealand. The implication, I think, is that Japan didn't start building high rise housing until it became more cost prohibitive to build out than up.   I don't care about the matter at hand, but I felt a need to referee the fact that the rebuttal did, in fact, negate his point somewhat, and you just happened to pick the part of his point it didn't negate ;-)
That's the trick: it seems like they couldn't. Their rides are still heavily subsidized.   I don't think people will pay for Uber if it has a 2-3x price hike, and that's necessary just for them to break even.
Inflation is an increase in the money supply.  Increases in consumer prices follow from inflation.  It's not the same as inflation. Some inflation is necessary for a growing economy.  If your gross national product is only $1,000, then you can get away with having less money than if your gross national product is $1 trillion. Inflation beyond this, though, is used to allow governments to live beyond their means.  If there is more money chasing the same amount of goods, prices will rise.  There is truth in what azcoastal says about this kind of inflation.  It's theft. Governments like inflation because it allows them to pay off their debts with cheaper money.
People have credit cards for various reasons depending upon their personal situation and uses  You don't need to have a Credit Card if you don't have a reason to. But most people do.
All of these events however, cuts into your actual vacation time as they subtract it away from your accrued vacation. These events are mandatory for all employees to attend. Underneath the facade of ""culture"", the management was extremely toxic. If you did not drink the koolaid, you were almost assuredly on your way out. As this is an at-will company, I would often see people let go for the most stupid reasons, if any were even given (including myself). Anybody who voiced concerns or had different ideas going against someone in charge were soon to be ""performance managed"" out of the company. I highly encourage anyone looking for a job to check out the prospective company's Glassdoor page. It is a great resource and will truly give you an idea about what kind of ride you'll be in for."
I mean, I'm not saying people *need* sex, I think thats stupid to assume, but to say you need to have a lot of money before kids will set us up for failure. Already, the younger generations (i.e. millennials and younger) will have to deal with a low birthrate that will be a huge problem once they hit geriatric age. Not having kids means you'll likely need some form of nursing care, but if no one else is having kids either then who's going to staff nursing homes?  I'm not supporting people having kids either willy-nilly just for an illusion of comfort for when they're old. People of all classes were able to have kids back in the day and just saying 'you can't have that anymore' doesn't sit right just because the system is fucked up. This is something that needs to be fixed, not just a bandaid thrown on it, saying 'just don't have kids lol'
Yea because we need beautiful UI glass effects in our nuclear silos...  Raw computing power has been sufficient for most tasks since the 80s.  Almost all the gains since then have gone into usability.    For something like a nuclear missile controller you really don't want to be updating every other year to untested new technology that no single human could fully understand.  A beautiful UI is not sufficient compensation for the added complexity.
That's a really good idea, though in most cases like this the template letter is sufficient: Someone with legal expertise drafts a template letter with the proviso that this letter will probably have the desired effect under a specific set of circumstances. If this set of circumstances apply to you, then you can print this letter out and send it...  Legally, a properly worded denial by an individual is no different than the same denial written by a lawyer, so unless someone has actually began litigation there's rarely a necessity to seek legal advice. And in most cases firing off a denial (or a fuck-off letter) is more legally advantageous than silence, so it might not even be worth it...
I'm not sure you can call this socialism, but I hold the belief that the world at some point will be socialist-like.   This will take progress of automation and energy advances and capitalism will be the catalyst in this advancement.   At some point people won't have to work.  The only thing we will need is the power to run the automation.   I think that by the time we get there,  it won't really matter,  as there will be no jobs needed.  The bottle neck of course, is creating the energy cheaply,  if not freely, via automation.   We should be able to produce or run everything automatically at some point. From food production,  to gadgets,  we can and I'm sure will make everything automated.   The only thing needed will be the raw materials which can be harvested  through automation.  The world will be weird and awesome 200 years from now.   Assuming no religious cult takes hold and people don't banish or burn the advances made, which have historically happened.
"Yes. Since it is our duty to give aid to helpless children, even when their parents make ""bad"" choices. As a society we combat this situation with education so that people will understand that having children they ""can't afford"" is a bad idea. Contraception and financial education is essential in this situation."
"Ok. You also had a wife/girlfriend. What about the single parents? I guess in your eyes if they can't juggle raising a child, holding down their full time job, taking public transportation, and going to school full time, they're just not working hard enough. Or clearly not as hard as you did.   Sorry man. No. I guess we just disagree, but many people really are just in a position where they are unable to better their lives. Simply saying, ""this is important to me"", sadly, is not always enough to ""make it work""."
you understand inflation is necessary for growth? inflation is an increase in the money supply. the fed has a policy of inflation targeting. they say okay we are fine with 2% inflation lets keep it at that level. and their policies aim to keep inflation at that level.
"Well what he was trying to say is that support should be prioritized higher as an investment rather than cut to the bone as a necessary overhead evil. Yes, they all still need to be balanced, so technically it's a true statement, but the implication with which it was said was ""you shouldn't be pouring money into support. Ever."""
It's a good idea to keep them, just until your statement arrives. As a programmer you know its supposed to be automatic, but glitches do happen. Keeping the receipt till your statement is probably not necessary 99.999999% of the time, but it might save your butt one time, which would be worth it.
No, it's not a joke. Single women don't have families yet, and married men are more stable than their single counterparts who are chasing tail and partying more.  Women are going to get pregnant and have families, it's unavoidable. At least the single woman doesn't have that YET. And frankly, men should be taking paternity leave as well as women, so that's a moot point.
But it does require math skill and ability to know and follow procedure - plus you need to pay someone enough that they aren't going to take bribes/steal from the till.  And there is the whole treating people like humans thing.  Which you seem to lack.
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Even if it's not used for energy, coal is still essential for making plastics, drugs, air and water filters, soap, dyes, solvents, and carbon fiber.  The coal industry will be around as long as we need aspirin or Boeing wants to build lighter passenger planes.
No. Because the force required to deter a Russian invasion is a bell of a lot less than what the US is building up.   You are still in Afghanistan 15 years later. Europe doesn't need to build force to do stuff like that.
Whether or not you have money in your account will not necessarily stop them withdrawing the money, and it certainly won't stop them attempting to withdraw the money. There are two possible scenarios when they attempt to withdraw the money (as they surely will): I think you are just lucky they haven't attempted the withdrawal yet. Put the necessary money into your account now if you possibly can, and consider this a slightly expensive lesson learned about following the Ts and Cs when cancelling services.