vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
So this guy has his own life experience. He's had some amount of privilege in his life and he's aware that's his success could be attributed to that. However, success is profoundly more complicated than luck or chance opportunities. Maybe in his survey with a sample size of one (himself) it all makes sense but success is hard work, tenacity, great planning, strategy, timing and then a little luck. The whole cookie thing is interesting from a human nature perspective but you can't create and IPO Facebook because someone told you that you were the leader. That may for a free cookie but not any real success.   [Liar's Poker](http://www.amazon.com/Liars-Poker-Rising-Through-Wreckage/dp/0140143459) has a massive user rating on Amazon. No one gave him the pages to that book. He wrote the thing. You can write a kiss ass book too. Sure, he might have gotten a break to get it published but if you had that break could you write a kick ass book?
"Since this is a cooperative I'm guessing your partners may want to be able to view the books so another key point you may want to consider is collaboration.  QuickBooks desktop has all of these same issues because it is meant to be used on a single desktop. We're in an age of mobile devices, and especially in a business like landscaping it would be nice if certain aspects of record keeping could be done at the point and time where they are incurred.  I'd argue you want a Software as a Service (SaaS) accounting package as opposed to ""accounting software"" which might come on a CD in the form of QuickBooks, Sage and others. Additionally, most of these will also have guides to help make sure you are properly entering your records. Most of these SaaS products also have customer success teams to help you along should you need assistance. Depending on the level of your subscription you may get more sophisticated handling of taxes, customized invoices or integrated payroll. Your goal is to keep accurate records so you can better run your business and maintain obligations like filing taxes. You're not keeping the records just to have them. Keep them in a place where they will work for you and provide the insights and functionality that will help your business grow and become successful. Accounting software will always win in this scenario over a spreadsheet. FULL DISCLAIMER: I work for Kashoo, a simple cloud accounting product designed for small businesses. But the points I mention above are true for Xero, QuickBooks Online and Wave as well as Kashoo. And if you really want expertise to go with the actual software consider service providers with a platform like: Indinero, Bench, easyrecordbooks or Liberty Accounting."
That'd be cool in conjunction with a coffee shop.  Order a book, go get coffee, and browse a bit before you're told that the book you ordered has been assembled for you.  As someone who prefers a physical copy of a book over a Kindle, I would love this option.
Thanks. The reality is that just about any book is available freely as a PDF unless it is especially niche. This isn't my money so I don't mind spending it to have something physical. However, happy to hear if you have other interesting recommendations.
I have thrown the book away along time ago so I can't point to the specific chapter and page. It's in there. The book is garbage and the author is scam artist. If you're holding a copy in your hand I would tell you to look in the references but wait...it doesn't have any.
Why are you reading them? Most undergrad books are good enough for a general understanding of a subject. Graduate books, on the other hand, can sometimes get a bit difficult to read and start to throw in measure theory and other abstract concepts, and they're more rigorous with definitions compared to the intuitive explanations of undergrad books (this can be a good or bad thing). I probably wouldn't bother unless you're looking to take graduate level classes in the subjects.  With that said, Hull's book isn't too advanced and you would probably not have too much difficulty with it, so recommended. Not sure if I've read the corp fin book.
My wife prefers to keep those funds separate in her head, so that she can look at how to spend money on the backyard without thinking about how it affects our emergency readiness. While complicated, it shows that even within a household, it's possible to think about emergency funding two different ways. (it causes minimal headaches, though a fair bit of book-keeping) So define ""emergency fund"" however suits you and your life best. However, practically speaking, most people find it desirable to not put those medium predictability purchases into the same bucket as emergencies. Those that do find it desirable to put them in the same bucket typically have a personal reason for why that suits their needs better."
Well, you still have to pay to ship &amp; store paper, ink, binding materials, and book-binding printers &amp; parts.   If only there was some kind of electronic “infinite page” device that would offer truly zero marginal distribution cost. Maybe they could give it a snazzy name like *Kimble* or something. :P  Of course I’m kidding, if someone wants a printed book that’s what they want.
Yes, it's still a mess, but I hope the information is good. Would love to hear your comments in regards to the language used (not a native English speaker) and the information given. The site is under development, it will look nice, will have a nice ebook, and whatnot. All help is appreciated. Thank you so much guys.
Yes, but most/many people will not realize how small hardcover books sales are in proportion. Then they throw in some hype about how this is a landmark in ebook sales etc.. and there you go.   The article has a clear agenda. There has been a lot of focus on ebook vs print and this tries to pull the wool over your eyes by leaving out relevant information.
You just sound like a whiny little child screaming 'why do you like what I don't like!?'   I like physical books. One of the reasons for that is because I like putting them on a bookshelf and having a psychical collection. If you don't like that, I really don't give a flying fuck. You sit over there and play with your kindle and I'll sit over here and enjoy my shelves upon shelves of physical books. Neither of us is better than the other, we just *prefer different things*  You call me a pretentious douche but you're the person that comes off as one. Well done.
&gt; Well, you still have to pay to ship &amp; store paper, ink, binding materials, and book-binding printers &amp; parts.  Sure, but now you're storing and shipping raw materials able to be used in any of the books they print, so you need much less of the raw material to be able to handle the demand of all your printed books.  You don't have to estimate so closely exactly how much of each specific book you need, or worry about ordering too many or not ordering enough. You just need to order 50 gallons of ink, 100 reams of paper, and so on, and if you miscalculate you don't need a shipment from back east or overseas or the distributor's warehouse 200 miles away to resupply you, you just walk across the parking lot to Staples and buy some more paper and ink.
Yes, as I mentioned in another comment my girlfriend has a Nook (which I bought her) and I had an older Sony e-reader my mom bought but never used.   I wasn't aware you could lend on the Kindle but i know the Nook has that function. It just seems so much easier to hand them a paper copy than to make sure your friend has the same e-reader as you and that they bought it from the same source as you. I guess it's good everyone and their mother has either a Kindle or a Nook  - it makes it much easier to share. But sharing a physical book is as easy as pointing to your shelves and saying 'find one you like.'   I'm not as avid a reader as I used to be, but I still buy about one book a week (most of them history related). I put them on my self and read through them, much slower now than I used to. In some books I'll make notes in the margins or put post its to save quotes I like. I know you can do something similar with the Kindles but it just seems so much better to do it in a book, you know? Maybe I'm a bit old school.   Plus, lighting a fire in the fire place, pouring a glass of scotch, and sitting in a huge high backed chair by the fire just doesn't feel as classy with an e-book, hahah.
The iPad screen is big enough that it an comfortably fit the page, IMO. Also I acquire them through less than legal means, so i'm saving money there, too. Searching within textbooks is the BEST part about it, though!  A good friend of mine told me the same thing you said a year ago when we had this discussion. He moved twice in the spam of a year and had to lug two boxes of books around, which sucked, he ended up downloading Kindle on his iPad, his laptop, and buying his girlfriend a Kindle, he says it made their life much easier as far as their last move is concerned but especially with finding books.
People pay for CDs and DVDs before ripping and uploading them too.  Also, books have been free online for 15+ years, yet I still buy almost 1000 dollars of books per year.  I prefer the paper.  I like being able to scribble notes, and then loan the book to a friend, or give them away to people who can use them, or to my local hackerspace.
I hope Amazon does something to revolutionize school textbooks.   I know it's a pipe dream, but it'd be pretty rad one day to have students using a kindle of sorts to study instead of those archaic textbooks.  I think an interactive textbook style application makes for some pretty amazing possibilities, and it takes a lot of capital to really take control of the abominable situation in the school textbook situation.
I don't mean dishonest book-keeping, I mean accept that you are going to borrow money in order to pay for something of value that you can account as an asset. Work out now what you'll need to borrow and how you think you can pay it back, make sure the sum is worth it, budget for that, stick to your budget. You'll still have negative cashflow, nothing changes there, but your capital account looks fine. Personally I wouldn't actually put a monetary value on the degree, I'm not that bothered about the accounts and it's really difficult to be accurate about it. You can just consider it, ""more than I expect to borrow"" and be done with it. Studying costs money. Once you've graduated, you probably aren't going to be back here saying, ""I want to buy a house but I have no capital and I don't want to go into debt"". Are you? ;-) Although if you are, the answer happens to be ""Islamic mortgage""! I don't know whether Islamic banks have an equivalent answer for student debt, since they can't own a share of your degree like they can a share of your home. Unless you're a Muslim, presumably the ways that Islamic finance avoids interest payments would not in any case satisfy your desire to be ""not in debt""."
I'm confused.  Is it that the DRM prevents you from freely distributing the books after you've bought them or what?  My wife and I share an account so we can share books.  There's  a lending feature with Amazon that lets you lend many books.  Many libraries already have lending programs that Amazon (and other e-readers) work with.  Amazon has a fledgling lending program (which my wife is actually using for the first time).  DRM is really really not a big deal for me or anyone else I know with a kindle.  Add to that I'm largely reading books that cost less than four dollars from new authors who aren't writing full time.  I want to support them so they'll keep making content I want.  Some DRM helps keep their work from being freely distributed.
"Are you serious?  You really just admire physical books so much because you can put them on a shelf and look like a huge pretentious douche when you show off your collection to people who pretend to care?  Wow, I thought hipsters were bad.  Whats next, you gonna put on stylish ""reading glasses"" and read by candle light?"
I bought a the new book Grant by Ron Chernow because he writes the best biographies going. I had to go to Half Price Books because there are no truly independent bookstores near me. It cost me an extra $10, but Amazon is getting a bit scary for me.
"Do you think that publishers haven't thought this through pretty carefully already? You can't *easily* make a thousand copies of a dead-tree book and give it to all your friends, or make it available to millions on the internet. (Possible? Sure. But not without a ton of work and hassle.) Publishers rely on customers buying paper books for their personal consumption, and figure that they might loan the book out once or twice - big deal. They still get paid.  Without DRM, publishers would basically be inviting the public at large to steal their e-book product. Marginal costs to copying a ""book file"" are nothing, unlike in the paper comparison, so everyone would do it if they could. Sure, the DRM is easy to hack, but the vast majority of the public isn't going to do that or know how. Just like for video games - the publishers know some folks will do it, but enough don't that it makes the product profitable. DRM is what creates the whole business model for e-books in the first place.  By the way, Amazon's DRM doesn't lock you into using the Kindle. The official Kindle app for the iPad works just fine, and I read many books with it."
&gt;In fact, a part of me is ready to accept America becoming what France and the UK are now, still having relatively good standards of living but nowhere near the height of their historical powers.  I am almost convinced that is the case.
"Republican ""leaders"" say ""Fuck you democrats and fuck you even more voters!"": Democrats say ""wha wha wha"". Nobody gives a shit about this country any more. France offered to take in US scientists though, I guess that's the only option nowadays"
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"To dispute your first point. It can be racist if it's the truth. The accuracy of a statement doesn't impact it's cruelty. If you were over weight and I called you a fat fuck, it may well be true, though it's still mean. In the same way if your mother was dying of cancer and I was to say "" she is a cancerous weight on our social structures, and she's not likely to live long anyway "" all of those things may be factually correct, however it is still malicious for me to say those things in that way. Similarly even if what he says is factually correct(which is an issue I'll get to) does not change whether what he said and the way he said it was malicious (or hurtful) to a particular race. Now whether what he said is socially acceptable is a matter of culture, you seem to think it's perfectly acceptable, as another said, many of his business connections might also. I happen to think it's not acceptable , clearly in line with op. I'm not looking to argue about whether it is acceptable to ever be racist because that is a nuanced line (though fairly simple to keep away from) that has been covered over and over in many other discussions arguments and protests. To the matter of whether or not what he has said is factually correct. I agree with you on this: Zimbabwe is incredibly rich in resource and is a largely untapped land in the modern world(though seemingly not for long). However I would make the distinction in my argument in the causality. Is it the fault of the Zimbabwe people that they have not fully taken advantage of their resource. And if so is that fault in anyway linked to their skin colour. For me even if you conceed the first, the 2nd is untenable. clearly seen in the rise of Asia and of India through the 20th &amp;21st century, education medicine ,social support and infrastructure play a much larger role in the ability of a society to effectively allocate resource , than the vain colour of ones skin or the line of ones heritage. Not to say the first is entirely true either, as the mistakes of yours forbearers weigh on your ability as much as their success accelerates you .
&gt; This information isn't guarded behind lock and key at the country club's secret library.  True but also not guarded is proof of global warming, evolution, and the non-existence of ghosts yet many people hold on to their misconceptions. Part of the reason is that people profit on these misunderstandings like oil companies, religion, or Hollywood.  Communication isn't achieved just by making the right information available.  The truth needs to be presented in a way that breaks through all the noise.
"I suppose I do tend to talk down to people who, when asked if they believe a country should enforce its borders, respond by stating they ""don't believe in countries"".  It's a character flaw.  (I upvoted you to try and keep you in the positive)."
"Actually the UK was doing that back in the 1600's to finance war with France. You might want to learn why the crown jewels were not actually owned by the state :)  ""I think you should move along before you get hurt. This is a grown up conversation little one."""
&gt; So no evidence then.  That's literally not at all what I said. So you're obviously a troll.  What I said is give me 2 hours of their broadcasts and I can point out to you everything you need to see to be convinced. The evidence is in their broadcasts.
Are you seriously saying you can't/won't give me actions by Trump you oppose to, because I did not ask for them initially? Really? Or is it because you have no examples? &gt;&gt; He's a liar, so you won't believe anything he said, anything he does or anything I say about him. &gt;No, it only means I won't accept what he says as true. LOL!!!! I said ""you won't believe anything he said"" and you reply ""No"" and immediately adding ""it only means I won't accept what he says as true."" You are very funny. That's why I enjoy to debate people like you. In your attempt to get our of the mud you dug yourself into, you are getting more and more funny. So, let's cut the crap, as it's simple, just as I said from the beginning: no matter what, even a ""scientific"" person like, facts, logic, proofs, scientific proofs, no matter what, you won't believe Trump. Probably you don't believe Trump that he against Neo Nazis? Don't disappoint me here! I expect you to say, ""no, I don't believe Trump! He's not against neo Nazis"". &gt;&gt; Hillary and the DNC are not liars. So you voted for them... etc &gt; once again, your defense for President Trump is complaining about the Democrats. Absolutely not!
I've spent a lot of time in Sweden.  Hard-working and educated are among the top words I would use to describe my Swedish friends. Spent some time in Denmark and Finland too and it appears to be the same there. I don't think you can say that about many counties. Next country over, Russia, one of the top words is cynical. You won't find more cynical people about taking and giving to those who claim greater need after the horrendously failed experiment.  Also I don't think Sweden is as socialist as people make them out to be, although I have to admit I haven't researched it much. I've just spent a few months there.
&gt; While I'm talking to an Estonian, how's Estonia doing these days?  The current party in power is having a financing scandal. Allegedly one of their current ministers organised money laundering schemes while being the secretary of the party years ago, but it goes a lot deeper than that, he's refusing to step down, and an investigation into this by the state prosecutor was shut down due to lack of evidence.  The guy is the minister of justice, so the state prosecutor actually answers to him directly.  At times it feels like we're living in god damn India or something.
Probably you don't believe Trump that he against Neo Nazis? Don't disappoint me here! I expect you to say, ""no, I don't believe Trump! He's not against neo Nazis"". &gt;&gt; Hillary and the DNC are not liars. So you voted for them... etc &gt; once again, your defense for President Trump is complaining about the Democrats. Absolutely not! I said again and again that I supported Trump over his stance against immigration, ObamaCare, TPP, NAFTA, insane liberals, anti-patriotic acts by Democrats, etc. Also I support him for his integrity, his fight to make America Great Again, his plans to rebuild the infrastructure, bring jobs again, support veterans, build the defense, against wars, etc. It's beyond me that even if you do not like Trump's agenda, that YOU VOTED FOR DEMOCRATS despite having 2 additional choices, and despite them being so corrupt, cheaters, killers, scandals, no integrity, no plans, etc. How could a person like you, who seek truth, vote for democrats? **The list of ""lies by Trump"" you gave me is mostly not true!!! They are lies about lies!** For example: &gt; “I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.) I was for the war in Iraq in the beginning too!!!!! Yes! I was sure, based on what Bush said that Iraq has WMD. Then, as time went on, as no proofs or examples came up, I was against. **The bottom line: I and Trump were against the war in Iraq BEFORE(!) it started. Hillary was for the war. WORST: Hillary is clearly for war with Russia which is very stupid idea, especially because WE HAVE YET TO SEE a single proof how Russia interfering with the USA elections. Got it?** Common sense: Trump won the debate against 13 other Republicans in July 2016, and you are trying to convince me that Russia new he would win and colluded with him between July until the elections November to make him win?
"&gt; You said all terrorists are Muslims, which is not true at all because most acts of terror comes from right winged population  Let's keep it simple instead of a lengthy argument: how many Muslim terrorist attacks in the last year versus right wing? And, I am going to ask again: please tell us about a right wing ""terrorist"" attack against **general** civilians.  &gt;&gt;""Do you think a rightwing would attack Muslims if they did not attack westerners? Do you think rightwing attacks are more than Muslim attacks? Are they even 1% of all attacks and harm?"".  &gt; THIS IS THE CORE PROBLEM I AM TALKING ABOUT. THIS IS WHY MILLIONS OF GERMANS SLAUGHTERED THE JEWISH POPULATION. THIS IS THE RESULT OF HATE SPEECH AND HARD RIGHT PROPAGANDA.   &gt; Swap jew with muslim!!!  Wow! I agree with you that TRUE Hate Speech, by Hitler and his movement, made one of the most cultural and educated group of people into monsters against Jews. Despite Jews being exact opposite of what they were portrayed in that hate speech.  Now, when I say ""Muslims are terrorists"", and other things against Muslims, do you think I have no basis for my ""hate speech""? And do I call to ""exterminate and kill all the Muslims? Does anyone call for actions against ALL(!) Muslims?  &gt; The crime rate of the refugees is actually a bit lower then the rate of the rest of the population, so not big a problem.   &gt; The overall crime rate rise significantly though since the start of the refugees crisis as a result of massive right wing activity.   &gt; Needles to say that the actual crime rate if jews in Germany was no different then the non jew crime rate just as it is now with muslims.  That's not true!!!! Refugees do more crime than Germans, I can prove it to you, and you blame Germans for crimes actually done by Muslims. You even go to the extra step to claim that Jews will be as criminal as Germans and refugees, which is not true. Never was true.  Here's the problem: you really really really want to believe that Jews, Germans and Muslims are same. This is not true. Check the news and statistics.  Japan, Norway, Hungary, Poland, etc accept zero refugees and look at the problems they have with crime, especially with the Jews among them."