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Amazon's MTurk - Get paid (little) for (lots of) easy work.
Amazon's MTurk - Get paid (little) for (lots of) easy work.
Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.
Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn.
I have personally made 37 cents this week!
(Over $70 to date, though) picked by thephrog 3 years ago
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 iceburg
3 years ago
Turks set to sue or riot in 3...2...1...

Honestly, once I read the historical basis for the name I don't find it racist at all. However, I know that the PR/Legal departments at the company I work for would never let a program name like this fly. We're not even allowed to call good and bad hackers white hats and black hats like the rest of the community does.

Sucks how quickly and easily offended people get these days.
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 thephrog
3 years ago
According to the museum of hoaxes:
The Mechanical Turk, which wowed audiences during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was supposedly a mechanical device that could play chess against human players (and win!). In reality, there was a man hidden inside the device who was doing the chess playing.

That is what Amazon named their service after.
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 Breex243
3 years ago
thephrog, it's ppl like you who make sites like Plime interesting. Seriously, I was wondering how many other people heard of the Mechanical Turk.

I'd have to add too that it's quite a fitting name for the service-i made like 8 cents so far.
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