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		newobj on Aug 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The money part of App.net is a red herring Not saying this applies to app.net (because I refuse to pay attention to the story), but I'd like to coin a phrase that I imagine may become popular soon: "'strap and dump". There, claim staken.

haileys on Aug 14, 2012 [–]

Sounds similar to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

newobj on Aug 14, 2012 | [–]

That was the idea :)

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