vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"I can't speak to this particular process, but I'm very well versed in putting together RFP (request for proposal) and Tenders (a term more frequently used in oil &amp; gas).  Basically, the customer puts out a document that says ""I want this widget constructed and built to this specification"". Then qualified bidders submit a proposals for the widget. Using this process is almost ubiquitous for large projects and for government contracts there is generally a legal process that must be followed.  Within my organization, nearly every project &gt;$100,000 must go through an RFP. For example, we just put our audit out to bid. 5 accounting firms responded and our Board's audit committee will select one of the bids.   Aside from performing some diligence regarding the solvency of the accounting firm, the profitability of the contract for the accounting firm is not part of the selection criteria. And while we aren't under any obligation to select the ""low bid"", we will absolutely give additional weight to bids that provide the best value (aka cheaper).  if you are curious about the generalities of the RFP process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_proposal"
"Paypal has an account called ""micropayments"" for those who have a lot of transaction under $10 with ""better"" commission structure, 5%+5c per transaction (rather than 2.9% + 30c with regular merchant accounts)"
You can find great deals and the forums are full of other information.  I also have found when I need to find a deal on something, you can ask or find others on the forums for help. http://slickdeals.net/
There are a few ways to make money from a market correction:
&gt;Under US [corporate law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporations_law) there are five primary methods of stock repurchase: open market, private negotiations, repurchase '[put](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_option)' rights and two variants of self-tender repurchase: a fixed price [tender offer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_offer) and a [Dutch auction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction). In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there was a sharp rise in the volume of share repurchases in the US: [US$](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar)5 [billion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000_(number\)) in 1980 rose to US$349 billion in 2005. &gt;It is relatively easy for insiders to capture insider-trading like gains through the use of ""open market repurchases"". Such transactions are legal and generally encouraged by regulators through safe-harbours against [insider trading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading) liability.
As the article says, selling warranties &amp; one on one tutorials is a benchmark for individual sales ability.  I don't know about Prada, but yes - many upscale department stores do still offer commission. And just about *every* store has something to upsell you on.  I don't mean to debate the merits of a commission-based sales system; I'm just pointing out that the competition (Sprint/Verizon) use one. And pay better as a result.
You don't need a book, you need to advertise. Start trying different things untill you find the money. Scale up what works and also keep trying other avenues.  What's your position on Google when people search for your Jewellery, Jewelry, Jewellers, Jewellery stores, etc., + dates (anniversary, mothers day)  + brand names? Do you have a website?  I've been killing it on google maps &amp; local seo for years. FB ads would do great with the right targeting.
Adjustments can be for splits as well as for dividends.  From Investopedia.com: Historical prices stored on some public websites, such as Yahoo!   Finance, also adjust the past prices of the stock downward by the   dividend amount. Thus, that could also be a possible factor in looking at the old prices.
As a follow-up, I ended up buying:    * Financial Modeling and Valuation: A Practical Guide to Investment Banking and Private Equity (Pignataro, Paul; Hardcover)     * Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, and Other Restructurings, + Website (Pignataro, Paul; Hardcover)     * The Essential CFO: A Corporate Finance Playbook (Nolop, Bruce P.; Paperback)
If you don't have to pay a large chunk of people money, you may be able to lower prices to get more customers, so in some regards they could compete but you're probably right - walmart is so damn cheap
Half of original MSRP at Amazon is a good option for books that are in good condition.  Another option would be to use eBay, specifically Half.com.
In this modern generation, Classifieds Australia  has become a growing industry around the world. Classifieds come into action when we need to promote our items through newspapers, online or other media solutions. Commercials in a newspapers are short, as they are charged for every line, in this case identified advertisements are useful since they are much more cost-effective than larger display advertisements, and are mostly used by individuals who have single items to provide or buy.
There are multiple social engineering ways.
"Who knows, maybe the small-scale store will manage to come back as a kind of ""pick-up"" hub for merchandise bought online. Want to sell on-line? Sign up for our new ""preview shipping"" service where we weigh, photograph, authenticate, and track your purchase so that if your customer bitches about it being non-functioning or a knock-off, you're covered!"""
A few ideas :   sell snacks for the trip, or alternatively just raise your prices and give the snacks for free.   Print out a sign with some pictures of where you'll take them, tease the experience.   Install curtains that can be opened or closed in case customers want more or less shade / privacy.  Have a radio or some speaker to play music during the trip.
"According to Realtor.com, there are a variety of options to save on closing costs:  A general Google search on ""how to reduce closing costs"" will return a lot of results on other people's experiences, as well as tips and tricks."
I've thought of the following ways to hedge against a collapsing dollar:
They essentially argue that purchases of things like movie tickets are made by groups; once individuals are constrained by the group's choice, the firm has additional market power: We present models in which price discrimination in the context of a two-part price can occur in some competitive markets. Purchases take place in groups, which choose which firms to patronize. While firms are perfectly competitive with respect to groups, they have some market power over individual consumers, who are constrained by their groups' choices. We find that firms will charge an entry fee that is below marginal cost, and the second part of the price is marked up above marginal cost. The markup not only is positive but increases with the quality of the product. The quote you are looking for is similar, and again attributes the discrepancy to price discrimination. From the Armchair Economist (p. 159): The purpose of expensive popcorn is not to extract a lot of money from customers. That purpose would be better served by cheap popcorn and expensive movie tickets. Instead, the purpose of expensive popcorn is to extract different sums from different customers. Popcorn lovers, who have more fun at the movies, pay more for their additional pleasure. That is, some people like popcorn more than others. The latter idea is that the movie experience for popcorn lovers is worth more than the sum of its parts: that a movie ticket + popcorn is worth more than either of them separately for some people.
"I blame that ""no concealed carry"" sign on the outside of the building. We live in a crazy world, and I won't patronize a business that suppresses my right to self defense. I'm probably a small percentage of why BWW is failing, but it's notable that there are others like me who also refuse to voluntarily visit a GFZ. GFZ's don't work. So I don't go to them. I'm not missing anything I can't get elsewhere."
&gt; To me that's a failure on a collective level.  I'd say it's more of a failure on a personal level. Without the mass of wealth that exists due to capitalism and free trade, there would be nothing to support anyone with. We wouldn't have to worry about these conversations because there would be no internet and we'd be too worried about killing wild dogs to eat and fending off the rest of the pack so they wouldn't kill us. I think you're taking a lot for granted.  &gt;The service industry employs a big chunk of the country. If the people whom they employ can't eek out a living then something should be done. Minimum wage has existed for many years now and is not controversial.  Inflation isn't seen as controversial either, but it should be. Here's someone that finds it controversial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rls8H6MktrA
&gt; Being FORCED to live life as a second class citizen is FAR WORSE than being forced to do business with people you prefer to shun. Go start a business and get back to us. You are not only wrong, you are wrong pathologically. If a person is refused service for any reason, they can find another store, shop, or vendor. If I refuse to comply with government do-gooding and meddling, I go to jail. Forceful acts by government are ALWAYS far worse than forceful acts in the private sector, at least in the usual case. &gt; If you have any ideas about how to ensure all citizens have a realistic opportunity for success without any government intervention in the economy This is an absurd demand. Apparently, you did not get the memo. THERE IS NO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN LIFE FOR SUCCESS. How do I know this? Because some people are smarter, better looking, stronger, take more risks, have better families that support them and so on. The only way to equality of the sort the left keeps gurgling on and on about is to have everything lowered to the lowest possible common denominator. That's how you get the cultural messes like Watts in LA or Englewood in Chicago, downtown D.C., downtown Detroit, Appalachia, and so on. They're ""equal"" all right - equally miserable. You'd better grow up fast on this one - some people succeeding and a few failing is WAY better than EVERYONE failing... and that's exactly where your collectivist sewer leads. It doesn't matter what you or I think, it's observable in Reality."
Sorry, but I found the opinion piece a very weak argument for deregulation. Mr. Salter backs none of his assertions with a single study or researched fact. Mr. Salter shows a lack of any nuance when it comes to understanding that not all regulations are stifling competition, and in fact some do help 'the little guy'.  Most of his baseless complaint revolves around the idea that the 'too big to fail' mega-banks are making out big time with regulations killing competition. Fails to grasp the idea that deregulation is what created these economy destroying mega-banks in the first place.
&gt; It's as if capitalism has a natural tendency to make the strong even stronger and lead to monopolies that eventually screw the public! &gt;   Slow down there Marx, even in this example people are getting goods cheaply and more conveniently. It's hard to find examples of large businesses that actually end up making their customers worse off by beating off all competitors with low prices then raising prices after.
A common pattern I'm noticing here is an absence of critical reading.  You don't see that the problem people have is not with your suggestions of approaching education in an alternative way, you are getting down voted because you repeatedly go back to this theme of 'anyone can do it.'  Implying that if you aren't an entrepreneur it's because you are lazy.  That is why you are getting down voted.  You sound like someone patently out of touch with reality.  I know this sounds harsh, but I'm just trying to clarify for you why you are getting hammered with the down votes.
Lots of president also had business operations.  None that I know of were ever forced to stop running their businesses.  Washington and Jefferson both ran large farms and sold to oversea customers.  Either way, this bill would never pass.  Every congressperson runs side businesses and have investments.  The last thing they want is a law to cripple their income opportunities.
Add to this that every argument is incredibly generalized with almost no proof or support. I could think of 10 companies that this article could apply to off the top of my head, one being Apple. That said there are as many companies that fall under these same traits that have remained successful.   Maybe it's just really hip to trash talk Microsoft and Forbes is looking to cash in.
"&gt; You know there is a heading in big bold text that says ""My budding product empire"" that conveniently links to actual products that make money for said author.  It's 2/3 of the way down the page in the same colour and format as the rest of the text. It's very poorly displayed - any product or service should be prominently featured.  &gt; I think you have a problem with the whole way the author markets herself, but I obviously it works.  That's not obvious, no. Anyone can make vague boasts about how much money they make, especially if those claims are aimed at attracting more business. The ones who brag the loudest are usually the ones with the biggest shortfall to make up.  &gt; Also I don't feel like it's bragging, it's more like sharing the wealth.   Sharing what wealth? As I said, anyone can make hollow claims about how much money they make. It all sounds too much like those self-help books."
&gt;I note that each response to me includes a personal insult.  False.   I don't know, nor do I care, why people downvote, but I assume it's because you're letting emotion cloud reason. The point isn't that people may lose jobs, it's that an inefficient business should go under. This is [/r/business](/r/business) not [/r/sappytearjerker](/r/sappytearjerker).  Brick and Mortar retailers suffer when a more efficient and broad-reaching business such as amazon comes about. They mostly go into these stores to check out the products and decided which to purchase online for less.   What I think about whether or not these people will get another job in T time is irrelevant to the point, again, that inefficient companies should go under.
I started to work out, step by step, why this doesn't work, but the scenario is too convoluted to make that helpful.  Basically, you're making mistakes in some or all of the following spots:
"Except one aspect of their business model involves lots of repeat business. The volume of early adopters who are even willing to take a chance on something like this is pretty thin, so client retention equals survival. All it takes is one stalk of wilted celery or a single bruised apple for someone to say, ""Nope. I'll pick out my own stuff from now on."" If anything, I could see stores holding back the *best* produce for online shoppers."
"The way I see it: Survival of the fittest. In the beginning weren't there a LOT of nearly similar sites? There was competition but they died out. Before there was only Google, there was MSN and Yahoo and more BUTT they died out. The only way break this alleged ""monopoly"" is if there will be others who could provide even better services than these giants."
"OTOH, Walmart seems to be doing just fine. KMart just hasn't been able to get its act together. Walmarts are bigger, cheaper, and cleaner.  Sears, like most general department stores these days, is struggling against small niche players. Their historical strengths of tools (Craftsman) and appliances (Kenmore) have been undercut and out-inventoried by larger, more specialized stores like Home Depot and Best Buy. Their historical catalog business has been totally destroyed by the internet, which they were far too slow to embrace. They have no ""identity"" anymore.  35 years ago when I bought my house, I bought a refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, a clothes washer &amp; dryer, and a vacuum cleaner from Sears. The current incarnations of all those items (except the clothes dryer, which I almost never use) came from Best Buy and Lowes and Amazon."
People clamoring for more and more regulation will always be disappointed because businesses will always find ways to get around it.  And, it is the usually the incumbent businesses that are able to do so, while new businesses find increased barriers to entry.  The correct solution is to remove the root source of the tuition bubble, get rid of the government subsidies for higher education altogether.
"It was bound to happen, it's just happening sooner because they can use the excuse of minimum wage rising. After McD's does it other places are soon to follow to ""stay competitive"".  We can address the situation now and start training people for jobs that will be available in 20 years or we can argue about entitled people/bad businesses and everyone will suffer sooner or later."
"equifax is not too big to fail. equifax needs to be made an example of. congress should be trying to start to legislate some privacy for us citizens like germany/eu. this just shows that the government is very unconcerned about our privacy. they could at least fake it. EDIT: i realized i am a hypocrite. i trashed hillary for her ""public/private positions"" and here i am asking for it. i feel defeated."
"The FTB, as any government agency, is understaffed and underpaid. Even if someone took a glance and it wasn't just an automated letter - consider the situation: you filed as a LLC and then amended to file as a partnership. Unless someone really pays attention - the obvious assumption would be that you had a limited partnership. Yes, you'll need to call them and work with them on fixing this. They do have all the statements you've attached. However, there's a lot of automation and very little attention to details when it comes to matching errors, so don't get surprised if no-one even looked at these statements. Next time your elected government officials talk about ""small government"" and ""cutting government expenses"" - you can remind yourself how it looks in action with this experience."
"Full disclosure:  I own restaurants.  It's a bit of a Catch-22.  It's a weird time for the restaurant industry because minimum wage is going up (which I'm all for) but in a lot of states, you don't get tip credits.    So, ""Make at least good food with decent portion sizes at a moderate price"" is pretty tough to hit.  ""Good"" food costs more yet bargain chains like BWW get raked across the coals for being too expensive.    It's why fast-casual (Chipotle, et al) are taking business from Applebee's and BWW.  I think we're going to see a lot of the casual dine-in restaurants fall by the wayside pretty soon, their rent and labor costs just aren't sustainable in a bargain-seeking market.   Good, fast, cheap.  Pick two."
I've been to some very nice restaurants that are worth the money at most price-points, but *most* restaurants seem to be, well, generic and crappy.  They're running on subsidized wages because their product just *isn't* something people want to pay money for.
"This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Retail-workers-will-be-the-next-unemployment-11263625.php) reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot) ***** &gt; If Amazon succeeds, the fate for retail workers is clear: massive unemployment.  &gt; Average retail workers, who earn little more than minimum wage plus commission, do not typically have any advanced training or higher education that qualifies them to fill vacant high-tech jobs.  &gt; &amp;quot;People who are working in retail are going to need to do something different, and they need to figure out where their aptitude is, and what their interest is. And they are going to need to do something quickly.""   ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/6lh15v/retail_workers_will_be_the_next_unemployment/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ ""Version 1.65, ~160117 tl;drs so far."") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr ""PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome."") | *Top* *keywords*: **work**^#1 **retail**^#2 **job**^#3 **program**^#4 **shop**^#5"
"Have you asked yourself why the worker is paid very little?  The private sector is efficient, that in and of itself is reason to privatize.  I have a feeling this ""better way"" you keep talking about involves me having a lot more of my property and/or income redistributed."
"I agree....  Do these people realize.... if talents can't come here, in the long run, companies can just set up office off shore and just IMPORT.  Then I bet people would say ""why don't we have massive import tax and go back to 1900?""  Then I would check this isn't r/socialist first and respond ""I won't explain basic macroeconomics in a business sub, but check out how Argentina faired due to Protectionism. ""  This is basic.......,"
"One cannot apply a ""one size fits all"" approach to any and all economic situations.  We are currently in a recession/depression/whatever due to a lack of demand.  Please tell me what would be the best way to get out of this particular scenario."
When I read Lukacko's comment, I assumed he was referring to the managers of the (failed) big banks as being unproductive, nowhere did I see him claim the poor were at fault.  Obviously, one of us is misreading his comment. I suspect it's you.  You see, the managers of the big banks failed. The Government responded by throwing money at them. They are *still* failures. They are *still* losing money (see: JPMorgan). Throwing money at them didn't solve a damn thing, did it? It only made the problem worse.
Because they are totally dishonest, and the only way people at the bottom can make money, is by bringing more people on board. There has to be a lowest tier who always lose a lot of money.  Elegant ponzi schemes exist today, dressed up as all sorts of shabby products and services.
&gt; My small biz SaaSes and JavaScript training courses are featured prominently on my blog sidebar.  Your sidebar is a confusing mix of links to interviews, book reccomendations and a blog roll. I see your products in there (finally) buried deep in some hyperlinked text with no named links.  Where the hell did you go to school for marketing?
"A hundred different Indian sweatshops low bidding everyone. I would be surprised if any of those projects are ever successful or under budget, but the amateur clients don't seem to care, they just want ""the next Facebook"" built for $100."
"This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/ea038.pdf) reduced by 97%. (I'm a bot) ***** &gt; Chronic underinvestment in skills, infrastructure and innovation has held back growth in the UK. A successful modern industrial strategy should combine economy-wide policies - such as ensuring schools are adequately resourced and stimulating investment in infrastructure or R&amp;D - with more focused sector or place-based policies that seek to address specific market failures that hold back growth.  &gt; Policies for sectors There are cases where firms are affected by sector specific barriers to growth that can be addressed by government policy.  &gt; The Liberal Democrat policy of &amp;#039;use it or lose it&amp;#039; months of parental leave for fathers is likely to be an effective policy for encouraging sharing of childcare responsibilities between parents, and helping mothers to return to work.19 The Conservatives&amp;#039; strict immigration targets are likely to be damaging for the UK skills base, business and the research community.   ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/6ejcot/lse_the_uks_new_industrial_strategy_pdf/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ ""Version 1.65, ~133543 tl;drs so far."") | [Theory](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31bfht/theory_autotldr_concept/) | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr ""PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome."") | *Top* *keywords*: **policy**^#1 **Strategy**^#2 **sector**^#3 **investment**^#4 **Industrial**^#5"