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Ask HN: Is Y Combinator a submarine communist plot?
I started wondering: basic income, planned cities, planned economy? ( through their funding proces? )
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAnd they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling commenters.
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- yolesaber 10y agoThat's it! I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
- internaut 10y agoComrades the left are no good at being themselves anymore. As somebody just slightly to the left of Moldbug, I say we pivot to take advantage of this gap in the market. With Biotech We Can Have Soviet Combinator Startup Make You. To the Command & Conquer Soundtrack of course. https://youtu.be/MEc1Dq3sh4U https://youtu.be/MEc1Dq3sh4U
- masonic 10y agoYC won't be deploying the submarines until the last few hitches in the fusion reactor design are worked out, probably by the end of next week.
- deft 10y agoYes, a capitalist venture program is a communist plot. Is this a joke or what? These things are only being promoted by YC because in the long run they are good for the capitalists.
- bbcbasic 10y ago> These things are only being promoted by YC because in the long run they are good for the capitalists. More a testament to what happens when geeks get their hands on excess capital. They have an urge to do nice things. It's a sleeping aid I guess. E.g. Gates, Zuckerburg etc.
- DorintheFlora 10y agoNo. As is often the case, they think that because they do one thing dramatically better than anyone else, they must be fundamentally wiser and smarter in all things. "A wise man is humble."
- patmcc 10y agoHopefully, that's about the only thing likely to steer us away from calamity.
- pythia__ 10y agoPlanned cities, if privately owned and governed, are the opposite of communism.
- kapitza 10y agoActually, the real history of the world is the hidden struggle between YC and the so-called "Paypal Mafia" -- in fact the continuity organization of the Nazi Abwehr. Both these groups have full access to the alien records and have upgraded leading personnel to a very high level. Apparently there was a full-out psychic duel between Thiel and Altman at Bilderberg this year -- no word on who prevailed, but both seem to have survived. This time. "Brexit" may be a sign, though.