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mircea_popescu: i think the total loot for this grand scheme was around 5k or so.
mircea_popescu: this was done by the actual owner packing the laptops in his own personal car.
mircea_popescu: to return on their own (more permissive) return policy.
mircea_popescu: i'll beat that story : a major romanian retailer bought ~100 laptops off a competitor, which the competitor was selling discounted,
mircea_popescu: pankkake the people filling captchas by hand also provide some convenience for some buyers.
mircea_popescu: more like a tupperware party than an auction, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: i nearly fell over laughing, all the housewives being all business-serious and bidding a hundred on some lamp
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was once with this chick who actually lived off going to no name auctions
mircea_popescu: in this parallel universe you can have an auction with a "starting bid" of 1 and a "reserve" of 10 which means that unless it reaches 10 the item doesn't sell.
mircea_popescu: mike_c they do this thing where they announce a "starting bid" but it's not the actual starting bid
mircea_popescu: jborkl can you imagine how the nyse would look if they'd get a call in the matter ?
mircea_popescu: is this going to be some sort of "all you need is love" thing ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake looky. some people think mpex is inaccesible and so go flock on btctctetc
mircea_popescu: so the value there is 1% of 478 btc minus whatever discount ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake i think some of the older people with actual wallets send a little just out of sheer trollery
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, i should prolly have pr make a trhead, MPOE BONDS LOST 3K LAST MONTH~!11 plz donate.
mircea_popescu: and like the proverbial soviet geezers we'll go "do you remember how great it was back when it was horribly bad ?"
mircea_popescu: it strikes me that maybe not many years later we will look upon the early days with nostalgia, drowned in a sea of banal crap.
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:12f6abe25d7cb14f088f737e75749f27e97964533753251ca2eb4ee3
mircea_popescu: stephengandel you know, you write a lot. i thought the job of the senior editor is more along the lines of throwing out the hard work of all the junior editors.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel depends of what your idea of shorting bitcoins is like. but you can buy puts through a broker, yes.
mircea_popescu: pankkake this is why you keep a bottle of nice cognac or tuica or w/e on hand.
mircea_popescu: benkay he's probably not found the bottom bar to type in yet
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i guess i must have confused it with some other movie
mircea_popescu: their butthurt at their idol's failure having just about healed past denial
mircea_popescu: anyway, getting back on topic for just a moment, from what i'm seeing the internet metal bugs are actually beginning to move to crypto.
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet only while pubescent. luc besson got obsessed with her, cast her as joan of arc and she sucked balls.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla hey was that chick in fifth element somalian too ?
mircea_popescu: benkay it's funny that the game requires the playerbase to use a lot of math, which the developers themselves can't apply.
mircea_popescu: the game is notoriously boring, as far as the actual gameplay goes.