ChuckFrank

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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Google is outsourcing their deliveries. They aren't the ones actually doing the delivery. From their wikipedia page it's clear that The deliveries are subcontracted to a courier service, 1-800-Courier. Plus they aren't wareho
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Did anyone notice that the photo that accompanies the piece is by Stanley Kubrick from a publicly available Library of Congress photo. That's a nice touch.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
This is good work. If you are doing this, thanks.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Will it have all the cool questions that OKC has? Will it match us with %? Will it be recommendation driven like LinkedIn? Will I be able to swipe left or right to collab or not? Lots of wild possibilities - depending on the functionality t
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Great comment. Excellent insight. And like you say, don't hold your breath on Clinkle.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
I thought the same thing. Besides, many elite institutions actively discourage working while at school, and I speak from personal experience here. So there's no way to actually make that type of money away from school. Besides, it puts
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Pacabel thank you for your note. My comment was meant in all seriousness. With so many institutions depending heavily on their students financing by student loans, I was making a call on which institutions I thought would survive and why an
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
MOOC's promise is not about disrupting the privileged collegiate experience for the few entitled attendees. MOOC's promise is for the rest of the world. "And none of this is to suggest that institutions with very high prices
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
It makes no sense to say that this document is based upon preserving the rights of the individual, while actively stripping those rights. The idea that you can be added to a watchlist, but you can know why, or by whom, or how to get yoursel
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Your point is excellent. It's not that this process is created in error. The process is created to 'diffuse the damage to an organizational level - which cannot be held accountable.' Still I think that aside from gross incomp
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
What is really interesting about this document is that they are trying to create the rule book for determining suspected and actual terrorists. This is not an easy task. This is why they create a 'nomination', 'verification&#
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Your point is well taken. I think the important thing is to readjust expectations to a more likely/reasonable outcome. Aiming for the stars is great, but crashing to the ground, which is the likely outcome, isn't. Instead, aiming
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
These articles drive me nuts. Every year they say the same thing. 20 year olds feel this, 30 something experience that. What they don't explain is that there are fundamental shifts happening with regards to work, age, education, income
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Having seen an upsurge in friends quitting, I can tell you that this is the reason for the quitting. Jobs are paying less, asking for more work, in conditions that are worse. This is especially difficult when you have a prior standard of wo
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
After we failed to get into YC, my partner quit when he got a salary offer that was too good to refuse. The distance between now and that offer within the startup was too long to imagine based upon how successful we had been independently.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
I meant no disrespect by saying that. It was simply a function of their availability and my scheduling capacity.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
That in and of itself is a good reason for great public goods. They are, or should be, by definition 'unexploitable'.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
I disagree with the dominant sentiment about this being an example of JerkTech. If RestaurantHop can prove through the resale of reservations, that there is value in these reservations, value that the restaurants, with a better pricing syst
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
I was invited to apply to Project Loon, which I did and unfortunately I never hear back from them. I wish I had.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Drew, can you give me some examples, how is the decentralized abuse worse than omnipresent government/corporate power? Aren't the both bad? One for the lack of agreed upon standards , regulations and criminal, civil consequences,
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Now THAT'S an excellent review. Include the relevant disclaimer of having written for Priceonomics, but even this alone, explaining the process of getting the stories, is better than anything I've seen so far about the book. Why t
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Ah, yes, the amazon page went live this morning. That makes sense. You may have wanted to curate, or to pull out some specific talking points for your reviewers. I think good good reviews are better than bad good reviews. But I understand t
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
It seems like the Amazon reviews might be stacked. There certainly are a ton of them popping up at 10 am this morning. Plus you can always tell a sock puppet review when they don't actually mention content and say things like "Gre
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Can you add a legend to your final map? I'm not sure what the different colors represent.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Why would you need to book a week ahead? And why would you go first/business class? It's a huge project, there's got to be scheduled client side meetings, and those should be scheduled months in advance.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
The weld is really the key difference here. For welds to be structurally sound, and for them to work in the calculations that have been performed for the structural integrity of the structure, they have to meet a certain standard. These wel
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
What a fiasco. This story just keeps getting bigger and bigger. So many lessons to be learned about a flawed bidding and construction process. And from what I see, it's immune to politics. No party can take the higher ground. Public se
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Having studied in China, and worked in construction, all I can say is that this smells, far and wide, like there was some kickback somewhere in this process. I'm guessing on the Chinese soil end of things. From first hand experience, I
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
Very cool. Thanks for the explanation.
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by ChuckFrank 12y ago
If this was the secret recipe to making an Instant Bestselling Novel, then Paul Bussard's Stinger Stars http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19246309-stinger-stars would be an international hit. It hits every s

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