vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
"This is back breaking work.  Our crops are not going to get picked.  So here is my conflict.  We used to have this weird system that was much like slavery.  ""Illegal"" people (God, what a fucked up term) would come over the border and work for less money because actually living in their own country and actually having a life expectancy was totally fucking impossible.  So they would come here and do our hardest jobs until they could figure out how to become citizens and start their own businesses (because they had found out what hard work and dedication was) and grow our economy.  So now if they can't get in at all we are either going to have to  stop growing a shitload of food or we are going to have to start making more things a crime so we can arrest more people and put them into slave labor.  13th.  The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads ""Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."" The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.  Watch [13th](https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091741?trackId=13752289&amp;tctx=0%2C0%2C1870540d3b211ad4e4609c81764d151ef14a23f0%3A0904e12b52de6ca627db4df50a14ce04ce2d354c) on Netflix to see where this all has led."
I believe its relevant, because, depending on what you believe your view of what level of taxation is acceptable, if any, is affected.  Someone who believes in big govt will weigh the impact on individuals take home pay much less than someone who doesn't believe in big govt.
I have been doing e-filing and I get the return in my account in 10 to 14 days over the past couple of years. It is worth the e-filing cost to get my money back a month faster.
The advice is always to not get a big refund from the IRS, because that is giving them an interest free loan. You actually have an opportunity to get an interest free loan from them.  When you file your taxes for 2013 note how much you paid in taxes. Not the check you had to send in with your tax form or the refund you received, but the total amount in taxes you paid. Multiply that amount by 1.1 or (110%). For example $8,000 * 1.10 = $8,800. When you get your paychecks in 2014 you goal is to make sure that your federal taxes (not state, Social security or medicare) taken from your paycheck will get you over that number $8,800 /26 or ~350 a paycheck. Keep in mind that the later you start the more each check needs to be. You will owe them a big check in April 2015. But because of the 110% rule you will not owe interest, penalties, or have to deal with quarterly taxes. The 110% rule exempts you from these if you end them 110% as much a you paid in taxes the previous year. Note that no matter how you pay your taxes for 2014: big check now, extra per paycheck, or minimum now; you will have to watch your withholding during 2015 because the 110% rule won't protect you.
"to me, the most relevant question after reading article is ""does Google get more information from me by using Chrome instead of FF? assuming google.com is my default search anyway."" I've always been wary of Chrome just because of this question. ??"
Postmodernist-marxist pushing agenda..    In reality democray is still the only option,  the key is an informed public..  And I think we are going through a big change with this now..   Why not make a paper related to public important knowledge on democratic issues, teach them how to make informed decisions..  That would be a real contribution to society,  this paper is filth.
Agreed it isn't fair, but large businesses/multinationals will **always** have the advantage of choosing which legal jurisdiction to do business in.  This creates an incentive for such loopholes in order to attract the businesses to do business there at all.  It needs to be harder for legislators to write such specialized tax laws, as the more complex/specialized the tax law becomes, the more unfair it inevitably turns out.
&gt; Mostly it's about things like the origin of the graph though - look how many of the graphs on that page start in the mid fifties, not zero, thus magnifying things drastically.  I agree, I've made the argument with other graphs.  FWIW, That's what FRED does by default, so that you can see the differences due to their magnification.
Exactly. Paying someone (or more accurately, many someones) to flag material to be taken down with the DMCA is FAR less expensive than lobbying for draconian Internet laws. AND it would create jobs. But that's not how the big dogs play.
The NYT is a very left leaning publication that usually advocates for *more* government. The current situation is a general pointed to by small government types as direct result of government fuckery making things worse than they would have been otherwise.  FTR- id like to see healthcare benefits taxed as regular payroll.  Then this problem would solve itself almost overnight.
&gt; This is without a doubt the craziest and most despicable moment in American History.  Whoa there, calm down.   Not to diminish the reality of what's happening here but this is essentially an argument over paperwork and a little bit of money. A couple hundred years ago my great great great (x?) grandparents were abducted and dragged across the ocean at a poor survival rate to work for free and were summarily brutalized as property and forcibly impregnated, raped, and 'bred' like livestock.  If you're giving me a choice between 'President too close to his business' and 'kidnap and displace a million people to use them for labour and breeding stock', I'm not sure how that's even a choice.
Be careful about your hard and fast rules. I'm flying first class in November because it was $1000 cheaper than flying coach, as bizarre as that sounds. I don't really know why the airline was pricing tickets the way they were (though the time I booked was when a hurricane was about to hammer florida + puerto rico and airlines were gouging people) because the tickets were for the exact same flight and there were very few seats reserved.  At best I would suggest you say that public employees / union reps should fly the most inexpensive option (though I'm sure the scenario I encountered doesn't happen often).
The Canadian bid is really good, I read parts of it.  It lays out why Canada is fundamentally better by having all the right things covered.  Basically the other areas are having to use tax breaks and incentives to make up for fundamentally bad business environments.  It opens with a letter from Justin Trudeau with “Dear Jeff”.
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Someone remind WalMart this is not 2007 when they were the baddest, biggest company in the country.   Don't try to dictate your terms on others. It still blows my mind that if you do business with Walmart you need an office in Bentonville.
Internal billing might make sense in some businesses, not so much in other. Personally, I hate it with a passion. I used to work for a big newspaper that is part of a huge media company with several other papers. We shared a huge archive with newspaper clipping that go back for 140 years, with a huge staff of excellent archivists - so this was a big asset. Every time I started on a new story my first call was to them, usually they would provide me with an overview of about 20 relevant articles - that saved me lots of time and got me quick up to speed.   Then the business consulting types came in and decided the archive needs to be a profit center in its own right, billing each research request individually to each paper. Two months after they changed that we were ordered by our editors in chief not to use the archive as much as we used - in fact most of them said that archive use was only permitted if all other ways or research had failed. Even the use of the electronic archive over our intranet was billed against us. So the professional database had been built up over many decades, it was ready and easy to use - but we had to stick with google. Half a year later they started downsizing the archive, because for some weird reason their workload had dropped by half. The fact that our rate for errors in article had gone up was *obviously absolutely* unrelated.
Apple is on the list. The problem is the URL is not to the Forbes list but to a fluff article designed to be read in 3min (&lt;-- just quoting the article metadata) by a 1st grader with no clue.  The real list is here: https://www.forbes.com/global2000/ and Apple is on #9 holding the place of the largest non-financial US company.
I've had similar thoughts about Orrin Hatch. There's lots of talk that this is his last term. I think that has affected his decision making process. He's more willing to be an actual representative is what it seems like
Fair enough, but the MSF program is still quant heavy. Probably not to the same degree, but I would imagine it would challenge you in some ways, particularly if you got into a top tier institution (i.e. Princeton or MIT).
They're not fully opposing SOPA, that's an error in the title of this post.    They still assert that SOPA is an attempt to fix something that's broken, their problem (according to the press releases) seems to be with some of the minutae in the bill.    While they've backed down somewhat, it's just not accurate to say they're in 'full SOPA opposition'.
&gt; What IS criminal, is faking the loan paperwork and KNOWINGLY passing along fraudulently obtained loans.  Its pretty obvious that they would need to deceive the MBS buyers about the creditworthiness of the loans in order to sell them.  By knowingly targeting unsophisticated poor people to take large expensive loans, they were knowingly engaging in activity that is necessarily fraudulent from the top down.
"I 100% agree with you.  I didn't want to steer the conversation down that path.  I am in no way disregarding your comment here, but in the spirit of keeping this conversation on a linear track...  What I am trying to get across is ""in many cases, Corp BK laws are being used in a way that was not the original intent of the laws"".  Now I agree that Copr and Personal BK laws have been legislated and morphed in part due to lobbyist and corporate interest - but I wasn't even going to even open that can of exploding worms."
"Between this, and them setting up the website to check if you've been affected with a relatively hidden clause that says ""if you use this website to check if your information was compromised, you waive your right to sue, and must go to arbitration"", I'm starting to wonder if Equifax is gonna survive the legal blowout here...."
In what ways is SOPA seem a fitting retribution to the wrongdoing you're alleging? Also, can you prove harm from these sources hosting the copyrighted material? It seems that to **deserve** something the offense and response should fit one another.
What's an example of abusing it? For example I've ordered 2-3 sizes of a pair of shoes if I'm new to the brand and return the ones that don't fit because it's generally free returns on clothing. Is this what you mean?
"&gt; ""Following an internal review and an on-site visit with Equifax, the IRS believes the service Equifax provided does not pose a risk to IRS data or systems,"" the statement reads. ""At this time, we have seen no indications of tax fraud related to the Equifax breach, but we will continue to closely monitor the situation.""  You mean the company that keeps lying, at a time when the tax season hasn't even started?"
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What they are doing is not illegal.  There is a plan under consideration to charge micro-payments to place and cancel an order, rather than on just executed orders but it will need to go through review and approval.  http://www.tradersmagazine.com/issues/25_335/Exchanges-Set-to-Tax-Heavy-Quoters-109941-1.html
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"Sears CEO has asset-stripped it - he's sold its assets to his own investment fund, even loaning himself the money to do so.  If I recollect there was a warning to this effect in the annual report earlier this year - ""the interests of Mr Lampert and his associates may not be the same as shareholders' interests"".  https://www.google.com/#q=sears+ceo"
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Weird title.  The article says there was an original hack previous to the one that we all now know about, but it was by the same intruders.  There was also a third breach in a South American office months later.    TIL Equifax suffered three breaches in less than 6 months.
I don't know enough about international tax law to dispute what you say, but I would think that if it were illegal we would be seeing more repurcussions for nearly EVERY multinational company using these practices. How can you prove that the licensing deal between bluehat9 llc and bluehat9 lp (cayman) is illegitimate?
"FTSE ethical investment index: http://www.ftse.com/products/indices/FTSE4Good ""The FTSE4Good Index is a series of ethical investment stock market   indices launched in 2001 by the FTSE Group.  A number of stock market   indices are available, for example covering UK shares, US shares,   European markets, and Japan, with inclusion based on a range of   corporate social responsibility criteria. Research for the indices is   supported by the Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRIS)."" -   Wikipedia"
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If you check out China Stock Markets Web provides details on all things that trade on there. It covers the Hang Seng Index, SSE Index, and SSE Component Index. There is also tons of information for investors on the exchange website here.
Not illegal, its called treasury stock; happens all the time. Its used to increase the equity (and in theory, stock price) for the remaining shareholders.  A public company won't be a able to repurchase all of its shares unless the company has decided to go private. In that case, a person or other entity will usually purchase all of the outstanding shares of the company, usually at a premium.
Proper enforcement of laws currently on the books that should have prevented a company like Citi from selling loans that violated their own underwriting standards would have knocked out a huge part of it. Banks would have been a lot less willing to give loans to people who couldn't afford them if they knew that they couldn't flip them on the secondary market.
"I interpret that to mean ""vice"" stocks and necessities.  ""Cake"" may just be a nicer way of saying ""sin"" (see The Virtues of Vice Stocks) and includes ""lesser sins"" like sweets and soda in the group. ""Underwear"" likely means things that people are going to buy regardless of the economy - daily staples, which are generally safer stocks."
This isn't an article discussing the business aspects of bitcoin.  It's a comment on the price movement of bitcoin.  Do we regularly comment about the gyrations of commodities and currencies on this thread?  I tend to find talk of those things on subs like /r/finance and /r/investing.
a) the quick answer to your correlation is quantitative easing. basically the central bank has been devaluing the US dollar, making the prices of all goods increase (including stocks.)  the stock market appear to have recovered from 2009 lows but its mainly an illusion. anyway the QE packages are very known when the correlation is not there, that means other meaningful things are happening such as better corporate earnings and real growth. b) the thinkorswim platform has charts for dollar futures, symbol /dx
"That's it, I think. The situation I was describing was apparently called the prisoner's dilemma. Here's an example, scroll down to the bold title ""Prisoner's Dilemma (Again)"": http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/game-theory/nash-equilibrium.php  Thank you! There's no way I would have been able to think of Nash Equilibrium."
That looks very much like an S&P 500 E-Mini index future.  However, ES1 is a strange symbol.  Futures have the month of expiry encoded in their symbol as well:  http://commodities.about.com/od/understandingthebasics/ss/futurescontract_3.htm For example, the September 2011 future in this series would be ESU1. I'm not very familiar with Bloomberg so perhaps this is the front contract (i.e. the one that's closest to expiry (in the is case the September 2011 one)). Only problem is that prices don't exactly match what CME has (high of 1190 and low of 1186.25, for when this page gets out of date):  http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/e-mini-sandp500.html  - but they are so close I suspect it must be some sort of S&P 500 index future.
The S&P 500 represents a broadly diversified basket of stocks.  Silver is a single metal.  If all else is equal, more diversification means less volatility.  A better comparison would be the S&P 500 vs. a commodities index, or silver vs. some individual stock.
Generally, you need something that goes up over time during periods of index decline, but otherwise holds some value.  Historically, people tend to use gold for that purpose.  But with gold also set up for possible declines, that raises questions.  Silver has dropped a bit more than gold in terms of percentages.  If you think the downward motion will be in the form of sudden jumps, you can look at putting some of your money in puts away from the current price, but you can easily wind up paying too much for this protection.   In the case of a deflation, most things lose value vs. money, and you want all cash. These things might already be obvious.  I don't think there is a clear answer to your question.  But if the future were clear, the present market could possibly anticipate and adjust... one reason the future of the market always seems a bit murky.