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Das Kapital Capital

42 points by instakill 16y ago

sahillavingia 16y ago
This is Alexis's: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing
mceachen 16y ago
I LOL'ed when I read the footer a while back: "Das Kapital Capital, LLC provides investment, advising, and Quake II railgun tutorials to startups". Circle strife FTW.
- thwarted 16y ago
  Circle strafing has more use with rapid fire weapons than it does with the relatively slow firing rail gun.
  - kn0thing 16y ago
    The secret is in the bunnyhopping ;)
btucker 16y ago
"This made him a 23-year-old accredited investor, one of the most dangerous things in the world. Suddenly becoming more dangerous than a raptor, Jules & Vincent from Pulp Fiction, and Predator (combined) he set off to invest some of this capital in startups led by founders just like him (long on ideas, short on experience, but full of energy). Besides, he wanted to live vicariously through these of startup founders — only sleep better." What a phenomenal paragraph.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  Thanks. Admittedly, I reused this from a talk I gave at Angel Bootcamp in Boston. http://alexisohanian.com/video-of-my-talk-at-angel-boot-camp-angel-inv http://alexisohanian.com/video-of-my-talk-at-angel-boot-camp...
jacoblyles 16y ago
The commercialization of Marxism - never thought I'd see that.
- hvs 16y ago
  We have the killer Che Guevara bopping around as a pop culture icon. Anything can happen.
  - kn0thing 16y ago
    Unlike most the kids wearing those Che shirts, I'm aware of the irony, honest. It makes my trips to the bank a lot of fun, though. "My company's name? Oh, Das Kapital Capital." (with accent on Das Kapital, of course)
    - jacoblyles 16y ago
      If anything, an investment firm named after Marx's magnum opus is more ironic than a communist murderer's face on a t-shirt. At least Marx never directly killed anybody so it is in somewhat better taste than the infamous t-shirt (though his ideology led to the murder of nearly a hundred million).
d135-1r43 16y ago
How to apply?
jackowayed 16y ago
I'm pretty sure he's said that Das Kapital is on hold because he's too busy with YC, Hipmunk, Breadpig, and life.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  Yeah, I really need one of those timemachines -- I bet there are more than a few of you on HN who are working on this technology for yourselves, too ;)
kevinpet 16y ago
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." is this a mistranslation? It doesn't appear to make any sense. Should it be "experience praises most happily the one who made the most people happy"? Where did Marx write this and was it in English or German?
- kn0thing 16y ago
  Yarg, I clearly don't have good version control. That's a wicked old (crappy) translation. "History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy." Fixing! (Thanks) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/marx/1835-ref.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/marx/183...
_delirium 16y ago
now that's some détournement

42 points by instakill 16y ago

This is Alexis's: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing

I LOL'ed when I read the footer a while back: "Das Kapital Capital, LLC provides investment, advising, and Quake II railgun tutorials to startups". Circle strife FTW.

thwarted 16y ago
Circle strafing has more use with rapid fire weapons than it does with the relatively slow firing rail gun.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  The secret is in the bunnyhopping ;)

btucker 16y ago

"This made him a 23-year-old accredited investor, one of the most dangerous things in the world. Suddenly becoming more dangerous than a raptor, Jules & Vincent from Pulp Fiction, and Predator (combined) he set off to invest some of this capital in startups led by founders just like him (long on ideas, short on experience, but full of energy). Besides, he wanted to live vicariously through these of startup founders — only sleep better." What a phenomenal paragraph.

kn0thing 16y ago
Thanks. Admittedly, I reused this from a talk I gave at Angel Bootcamp in Boston. http://alexisohanian.com/video-of-my-talk-at-angel-boot-camp-angel-inv http://alexisohanian.com/video-of-my-talk-at-angel-boot-camp...

jacoblyles 16y ago

The commercialization of Marxism - never thought I'd see that.

hvs 16y ago
We have the killer Che Guevara bopping around as a pop culture icon. Anything can happen.
- kn0thing 16y ago
  Unlike most the kids wearing those Che shirts, I'm aware of the irony, honest. It makes my trips to the bank a lot of fun, though. "My company's name? Oh, Das Kapital Capital." (with accent on Das Kapital, of course)
  - jacoblyles 16y ago
    If anything, an investment firm named after Marx's magnum opus is more ironic than a communist murderer's face on a t-shirt. At least Marx never directly killed anybody so it is in somewhat better taste than the infamous t-shirt (though his ideology led to the murder of nearly a hundred million).

d135-1r43 16y ago

How to apply?

jackowayed 16y ago

I'm pretty sure he's said that Das Kapital is on hold because he's too busy with YC, Hipmunk, Breadpig, and life.

kn0thing 16y ago
Yeah, I really need one of those timemachines -- I bet there are more than a few of you on HN who are working on this technology for yourselves, too ;)

kevinpet 16y ago

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." is this a mistranslation? It doesn't appear to make any sense. Should it be "experience praises most happily the one who made the most people happy"? Where did Marx write this and was it in English or German?

kn0thing 16y ago
Yarg, I clearly don't have good version control. That's a wicked old (crappy) translation. "History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy." Fixing! (Thanks) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/marx/1835-ref.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/marx/183...

_delirium 16y ago

now that's some détournement