ChuckFrank

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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Low rates compared to what? Wall Street banks? Lenient default terms compared to what? Government assistance for the borrowers in what form? And stacked against the borrowers due to the rapacious secondary market servicers. More money can b
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Absolutely, and tuition could also vary accordingly. It would happen naturally if the system was allowed to self correct.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
You are right. Partially it's emotional language for me, and the other part is that I do feel that the money is being laundered through the students. But you are right.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I just googled. College towns are often seem as insulated from larger market conditions because of the constant supply of student loan support students. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/real_estate/1203&#x2
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Yeah, but it was his fault that he or she is only second-tier. Right? It's always his or her fault, regardless. In which case, the solution is still the same one, don't let to the second-tie schools get loans, and force them to be
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Illegal activity takes place on the side of the originators and the services, and you still argue that the loan recipient hold the moral weight of compliance? No. As this article clearly shows, and as was the case with the subprime lenders,
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Best argument here.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
You are correct.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
The government sells the loans out of the gate. Once the loan is complete, and consolidated, they sell them to second and third party loan servicers. Please see the article about the number of times his loan has been sold. And people willin
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Says a person on a technology forum. Without the media arts people who do you think does your UI, and your UX, and all your graphic design work, and makes those snappy Apple commercials. Or works for all those ad companies that you love so
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
And remember, who is getting the money for those 6 figure English degrees? It's not the students. They are liable for the funds, and they do get the degree, but if you follow the money it goes to the universities, and within the univer
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Then don't give them the loans. That's how the system works. And if they don't get the loans, force the colleges, and the college towns to compete for the lesser funds. Why should student loan originators get a free ride, whe
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
The student loan system is propping up weak real estate markets in college towns by using guaranteed student funds from student loans to pay for outrageous rents. Many of these communities would not be able to afford their lifestyles (see.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I'm in arrears on my student loans. I'm one of the millions that is. The first few lines of this article sums it up completely as to why. "Between misdirected payments by one of the companies servicing his loan and the abusiv
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Terrible reporting. I dug into those unsavory subreddits, and a huge number of them were mostly inactive, with hardly a posting for the last couple of years, and otherwise, like the fashion police one, they are hardly like what was describe
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Please, let's stop with all the success bias. Let's add in some stories about those that lost their shirts due to Quant trading.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
When we applied to YC, Steve was nice enough to meet with us at Hipmunk, and as with what he did there, I think he's going to do a great job at Reddit, where I've become an increasingly invested participant, once I learned how to
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I wish I was there when this piece came it at priceonomics. Aside from some price comparisons, I didn't feel that it really got into the economics of the market, and how it might be skewed on the streets, what operating constraints exi
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I so agree. Glad to hear someone just say it out loud.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Thank you. I think that's a fair representation of your marketshare. When you say 'started', what exactly do you mean? Used trials versions, previously engaged, or full time active members?
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
No difference from just around the corner of the Twitter building. This isn't a homeless man crapping problem, it's an insufficient bathroom infrastructure problem, and yes most mid to large size American cities have it. Which is
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Next to Songza, Grooveshark is my other love. But it appears that thing I love the most is missing, and that's the channels. And if anyone from either Songza or Grooveshark comes by, being that I've tried to contact you both direc
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
I still think that Google Glass has amazing opportunities for specialized technical applications. Just imagine if they could do all the things that the computer guy in Quantum Leap made possible. Like the billiard scene, where it maps out t
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
According to Linander’s law of headlines, the answer to this polar Yes/No questions would be equal to a coin toss. So maybe yes, and maybe no.
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Public Information Request- British American Tobacco to the European Commission [pdf](asktheeu.org)
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
A unicorn? I don't see a single one. I'm currently consulting in the food delivery space, and I can tell you one thing -- don't believe it. It's certainly possible to create solid local businesses in the space, but not b
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Hopefully this trend will continue as we move away from oil for many types of energy generation. And for those that low oil prices should reinforce car use - in many American cities, it's not the price of oil that is the limit, it&#x27
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Honestly, in times like these, it's so good to see someone talk about what government is good at. All we hear is the opposite, especially with things like TPP coming towards us. It's as if we've forgotten what government does
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Ideas like this is what we need.
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by ChuckFrank 11y ago
Thank you for calling this out. This is not only a profound failure of the imagination, but it's the terrible source of the problem that we find ourselves in. In many ways it is the box itself, just take another pull at the slot machin

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