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Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by joverholt »

kanamekun wrote: post #94

Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.

Check out the book Flyboys, by James Brady. (http://www.amazon.com/Flyboys-Story-Courage-James-Bradley/dp...). It gives some interesting background on why Japan did what they did (their expansion) and it also documents the atrocities committed by both sides. It was a very eye-opening book, and when you are done reading it, you will know why war is hell.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by icebraining »

itslogic wrote: post #126
c1sc0 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that getting things done "properly" still costs money. But every single item on your list can be done for at least one order of magnitude less in the MVP stage. * Domain: $9 * Design: $50 (Themeforest) * Video: $5 (Fiverr) * Hosting: $0 (Pick your choice) I've been thinking semi-seriously about this & I came to the conclusion that with $37 you can actually get a LOT done.

Design 0 ( use bootstrap) Video 0 ( who needs video to get started?) Seriously, why over complicate things?

Bootstrap is not design, it's just a tool that you can use to create a design.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by lubujackson »

eropple wrote: post #88
bcbroom wrote: post #78

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Real programmers use a magnetic needle and a steady hand.

Haha. That's funny. You think real programmers need needles. Or hands.

I still feed the punchcards into the mainframe with my mouth.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by Symmetry »

kanamekun wrote: post #94

Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity... Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.

It was the name of an empire, but it was also the name of the ostensible ideology behind that empire as well. Did you read the whole Wikipedia article you gave a link to? What Pinboard is trying to do here actually does bear a resemblance to what turned out to be the empty rhetoric of the Japanese Empire, and so I don't think it's inappropriate for people forming a commune to call it "Communist" - despite the horrific atrocities perpetuated by real Communist states.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by jarek »

buro9 wrote: post #129
toomuchtodo wrote: post #12

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I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC-2, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $500 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC-VC program.

At this point I'm out. This much money, I mean... what would I do with it. I think I can build a sustainable business but I fear at this point that the sums involved are forcing me to give up too much control and to grow faster than will be sustainable. I have legitimate concerns that this will ultimately be bad for the company and that it's helping to fuel a salary bubble.

I wouldn't really be into it for the money, just the mentorship and publicity. $137 worth of mentorship and publicity.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by justhw »

itslogic wrote: post #128
justhw wrote: post #18

If you get rejected, shoot us an email pinboard@funnelpanel.com for a forever free funnel analytics platform.

I will apply twice and get one rejected on purpose. Funnel for free FTW!

Btw this is a play on mixpanel offering for YC rejects, no real site exists.

Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Post by jarek »

kanamekun wrote: post #150
jessaustin wrote: post #108

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Considering that > 90% of the people who witnessed said atrocities are no longer with us (and 100% don't read HN), the time for jokes has come at last. Actually there have been numerous humorous takes on WWII for decades now. In "jokes", people often state propositions that seem opposed to what we would hope they believe.

Regarding atrocities, you clearly have no idea how deeply the wartime atrocities impacted many Asian families. Many Korean families I know refuse to buy Japanese cars or products (my mom is Japanese, so I've been told this many many times). My Korean father-in-law was an orphan because of the Japanese occupation. In any case, the above fails the first rule of jokes... they're supposed to be funny. I thought the post…

The anti-Japanese grudge does run fairly deep, but as far as I can see it seems to be slowing significantly in younger people. The parents of people I went to school with (graduated university 2010) might hold one, but my friends are much more moderate.

Personally I thought the co-prosperity added to the humour with an over-the-top name, and I detected a slight whiff of Eastern Bloc over-the-top naming, akin to Council for Mutual Economic Assistance or Polish–Soviet Friendship Society. But then my ethnic background is Polish and not an East/Southeast Asian one.

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