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mircea_popescu: o hey
mircea_popescu: kinda too easy to manipulate tho i guess
mircea_popescu: ya srsly.
mircea_popescu: stuff like that has happened before...
mircea_popescu: lol i like someone put a 5mn share wall at 2500
mircea_popescu: now that's hype :D
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin collapses on news of oversubscribed s.bbet ipo"
mircea_popescu: works pretty well in btc so far.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i guess it could be. the astute observer might notice that i in general deal in anti-hype
mircea_popescu: that was about the definition of fiat.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, cause i'm currently embroiled in an equally amusing debate with some guy on the forum.
mircea_popescu: if presented as fact it is.
mircea_popescu: (the other one is repetition)
mircea_popescu: the key element of hype is falsehood.
mircea_popescu: Namworld fact remains, falsehood does not stem from truth.
mircea_popescu: now that's unlikely.
mircea_popescu: simply being the thing they use does not.
mircea_popescu: that's true.
mircea_popescu: the sentence correctly is "the fact of a celebrity hyping a product adds to hype'
mircea_popescu: "endorsing" is the weasel word in there.
mircea_popescu: it's no the fact that creates the hype.
mircea_popescu: if fact can add to hype then there's no fact.
mircea_popescu: the old story of know the tree by its fruit.
mircea_popescu: fact can not add to hype.
mircea_popescu: and i'd like to know if you're a healthy young human or a mentally retarded one.
mircea_popescu: because you are making mistakes consistent with an intellectual age of about fifteen,
mircea_popescu: how old are you Anduck ?
mircea_popescu: ...
mircea_popescu: "from the owner of mpex" is fact, not hype in this case.
mircea_popescu: dub the disadvantage of news getting out : the forum moves to irc
mircea_popescu: where pray tell was bbet advertised ?
mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: not a matter of people discussing facts in their out of the world irc channel.
mircea_popescu: and hype is a matter of repeating dubious/false claims through many channels.
mircea_popescu: there's no competition in those terms.
mircea_popescu: add up the bets made in the past week, see what 80% is on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: no, that is a statement of fact.
mircea_popescu: puhleaze.
mircea_popescu: competitor ?
mircea_popescu: like ?
mircea_popescu: what hype ?!
mircea_popescu: "Let's see how well it does after the hype has cooled down."
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder there's more but those two can be enough for now i guess
mircea_popescu: quite the afterglow, sort of like good wine.
mircea_popescu: ahh this was so nice.
mircea_popescu: no estimate.
mircea_popescu: same thing here. being on mpex means a lot.
mircea_popescu: part of that because people know they've got mpex backing them.
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: why shouldn't it get 1k for bbet
mircea_popescu: i don't get it... mpex got what, 30k for sdice ?
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: you'll have to dig through old documentations/discussions.
mircea_popescu: not rly.
mircea_popescu: ahaha
mircea_popescu: fu dub
mircea_popescu: me too.
mircea_popescu: it's set in the contract.
mircea_popescu: nope.
mircea_popescu: someone should.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder by all means.
mircea_popescu: hance mpipo
mircea_popescu: far as i know i invented it.
mircea_popescu: not afaik.
mircea_popescu: unlike nasdaq.
mircea_popescu: ALSO my system didn't go down
mircea_popescu: than fb ? yes, i think it is.
mircea_popescu: Anduck, sometimes prices go up, sometimes they go down. it's the nature of this beast.
mircea_popescu: lol this guy is struck
mircea_popescu: three sigs
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.000625795346106/0.0006254
mircea_popescu: riddle me that coherence.
mircea_popescu: that. price formation ? mobs are stupid ?
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder ok. that's the sort of shit im talking about.
mircea_popescu: mnope.
mircea_popescu: you should probably warn them.
mircea_popescu: yeah
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: dub likely.
mircea_popescu: it's the trade engine that's the point of it all
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder the webserver dun worry me so much
mircea_popescu: (didn't take a second, either, they just all came the same second)
mircea_popescu: i guess all that hardware does something
mircea_popescu: apparently mpex can handle 300 orders in a second.
mircea_popescu: i can;'t believe this worked lol
mircea_popescu: jurov im in the same boat.
mircea_popescu: omfg ?
mircea_popescu: wait till he realises s.mpoe makes me worth like 600k btc
mircea_popescu: totally forgoat.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/is-smpoe-really-worth-that-much/
mircea_popescu: o o o this.
mircea_popescu: now i gotta google this
mircea_popescu: i do those like weekly
mircea_popescu: lyspooner lol which one
mircea_popescu: there we go
mircea_popescu: !ticker MPEX S.BBET
mircea_popescu: lyspooner pretty much dry.
mircea_popescu: hum
mircea_popescu: lyspooner a shade under 5
mircea_popescu: Anduck it already made like 30.