ChuckFrank

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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
That's not doubling down on Capitalism. That's doubling down on a jackpot economy. The two things are very different.
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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
How so? I don't see any diminishing returns. Pay a living wage for good work, forever.
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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
Capitalism see labor as a cost, and though outsourcing, overseaing, and automation attempts to drive that cost to as close to zero as possible. The fundamental problem is that people derive great benefit and satisfaction from their labor, t
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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
I agree.
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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
I mentioned it above, but have you looked into the MGTOW community? They feel the same way.
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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
Have you looked into the MGTOW community? You sound just like them. They are smart guys, but they get a lot of shit because they push back against those exact social expectations that you talk about.
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A B.C. real estate firm that has home sellers crying foul(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by ChuckFrank 10y ago|0 comments
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by ChuckFrank 10y ago
This should be Open Sourced. And adaptable for different site conditions. Otherwise, it's just theoretical.
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Post-Reddit Canary death. Ethereum adds one to the bottom of its main page(ethereum.org)
2 points by ChuckFrank 10y ago|0 comments
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
This from the man, Lynn, who said that we'd be making houses the same way we make shoes. He's a techno carpet bagger. He takes the most current and promising technologies, from shoe makers, to car makers, and then rails at the bui
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I work next to their brand new WeLive on Mission in SF. And from where I sit, I see trouble. 1. Similar models are popping up all over the city, including the much more sophisticated Panoramic just up a block. Beds starting at $1500. Yes Be
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
True.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
true.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Can Yahoo get its money back from its current CEO? Or did they really pay someone to run this ship aground? At the time when they were looking, I wrote Jerry an open letter about what I thought could be done. Sure I'm a nobody, but non
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
37% of what? equal what? did I miss the suggested number? I see that it's dependent on the number of people that you are considering, from 10 to 100, but that leaves a difference of between 4 and 40 people to date. How do we know how m
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I bring stats, and sources to refute baseless statements, and I get down voted. Any ideology that requires false statistics will fail. In single income families, the income is shared, the household or domestic partners work in not uncompens
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
With women controlling between 80 and 95 percent of household incomes, and being responsible for 85 percent of all brand purchases, worldwide, women do not do uncompensated labour. This fallacy needs to be brought to an end. (source she-con
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Strange that BlahBlah is made to seem so hot when ZimRide had to convert to Lyft to make any headway. I wonder if ZimRide overstepped their transition, or if BlahBlah executed better, or if Lyft is simply a richer pot. What is interesting i
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Big advances kill houses. That's the way it's been, and that's the way it's going to be. But in an increasing winner take-all, buyers won't care. They need the win and they'll lose their shirts trying to get it
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I and a lot of others have been talking about the dispute resolution processes and how they shift power to corporations over and above all sectors of government. In the domain name space they are called Rapid Dispute Resolution Processes (
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Politically, from my own personal experience, most infrastructure projects are sold to the public with a much lower price tag than what they know to be the actual costs, because people are incredibly price sensitive when approving important
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
They can just use the Beer Store or LCBO model. Done. There's an oversupply of Cannabis in the west coast. Done. Next?
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
You are smart. Good thinking. The best solutions, like this, should be available to us all.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Easier to sell, borrower is, to the best of their knowledge, complete and not taking on any new loans. Plus, as mentioned above, it sets the interest rate for all the loans. I'm not sure how often at a more or less favorable rate, and
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
It's the easiest way to justify the accelerating administrators incomes. And they say they have to do it to maintain the competitive advantage, over other schools that are doing the exact same thing. See UC Davis, where they are buildi
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Any link? This is news to me.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Again, great point.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I love that people understand the long con. It's almost one of the defining characteristics of the current system. Sure everywhere you look, we promised you greater success, but not at the moment when you signed, then it was up to you
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
And if you dispute it, you still have to pay the penalty first before you can pay any of the outstanding loan amount, allowing them to hold the funds and determine, with your funds in their hands, whether or now the dispute is valid. Imagin
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
It's certainly not explicit fraud, but it is a type of social scam, which becomes a trap, and yes, I think the solution is to turn down the loans, and force the landlords to deal with lower rents, because, as you say, now they have tre

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