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The way Cent works is instead of having 100 people earn 20¢ (for a $20 bounty), $20 gets distributed to the top 10 responses. Respondents are encouraged to be thoughtful because the community votes on which 10 responses get the bounty.

Many responses don't get paid as a result but making it competitive adds more value for the bounty-asker and makes the whole thing more fun in general.

What about this do you find so terrible?

> fiverr.com. Shell out $100 spread across a range of testers, and give them all slightly different briefings. Some feedback is terrible but there’s some gold there that’s really worth far more than $100.

Also check out Cent (https://beta.cent.co) - $20 in Ether can get you a pretty good set of responses. I am a cofounder - feel free to ama here or at cameron@cent.co

But it has the potential to affect more people. Cable providers can be regional, tv productions national/international.

Directv is a distributor, not a producer, so the stakes aren't as high.

I imagine that's for the empty plane, and that passengers and luggage and fuel offset that % a fair amount.

I bought this phone and the 360 camera and I can say that so far I have thoroughly enjoyed owning both and would do it again. I came from the Apple ecosystem, too.

In general, lack of encryption enables passive surveillance. I think a better solution than opt-in encryption could be on-by-default, with a multi-party recovery scheme.

To turn this back to you: do you fear death? If so, what aspects of it do you fear?

Awesome work Peter! This is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition (http://status.im and http://toshi.org)

People spend their entire lives focused on wealth accumulation.

Bitcoin has endowed many people with financial means in a way completely orthogonal to their day-to-day work. Say what you will about bubbles, but this "fund manager's" perspective is healthy check on reality.

For posterity, profile reads:

> Former Google and AWS product manager.

*not a decentralized exchange

Drip also refers to the aftertaste of cocaine in your sinuses.

Delegating access to a resource protected by a SIM card seems dangerous if not executed with meticulous security considerations - both technical and behavioral.

We think altruism isn't a good model -- people aren't willing to pay for things which have already been delivered (e.g. content). This is why we're starting with bounties.

The title of this submission is a little misleading - when you upvote an answer on Cent, you're effectively allocating a portion of the bounty to that answer.

re: Ethereum. We definitely think there is huge potential for decentralized apps (dapps) and that Ethereum is at the forefront of making them happen. One HUGE barrier to adoption is that, aside from maybe having a gpu that can mine a tiny bit, your only gateway to getting Ether is by buying it, e.g. through Coinbase. Without Ether, you can't use any of the dapps, and if it's just a bunch of speculators holding Ether, the dapps may never gain traction. Fundamentally, we believe that currencies are meant to be earned, and we want to be a mechanism for people new to the decentralized world to get involved by earning them.

We think there is a market for information somewhere in between free, open sites like Quora/StackOverflow, and expensive, closed sites like Experts Exchange.

Our hypothesis is that by adding bounties to the equation, the quality + speed of the answers you receive will increase due to competition for the bounty.

Hey! I'm one of the cofounders of Cent. That link goes to the beta app which lets you earn Ether (the currency powering Ethereum) by responding to questions. You can also ask a question, provided you put a bounty on it.

Happy for any questions or feedback - we just launched Tuesday!

Our general strategy is to rely on the community for most of the moderation. Right now, users have simple, equal voting privileges on every question/answer. In the future, we're going to incorporate per-channel reputation that is accumulated through the bounty earning process. So each user would start with 1 reputation, and as they answer questions and have their answer voted on by others, they accumulate reputation. This reputation in turn translates into greater voting power on other answers within the channel. Certainly not a silver bullet, but that's where we'll start.

A lot (most?) of the coins on the bitcoin page are dead. Many were created as thinly veiled, MLM/HYIP/pump and dump schemes.

I think he meant "proof of crypto ownership" and not "cryptographic proof of ownership". So probably a screenshot of your balance on an exchange.

> it is only ethereum-platform based naming for anything like your address etc.

The "etc" is important here, because it refers to richer resources such as content hashes. With this, you could load the entire "frontend" for a website from a decentralized datasource, e.g. Swarm. Meanwhile, the backend could be the Ethereum blockchain/smart contract methods.

ENS is implemented as a set of smart contracts with some multisig management. Are you arguing that this is centralized? Also, money that is collected by the ENS contracts is only held as a deposit.

> something else comes along offering a somewhat ethereum-compatible system

Dfinity comes to mind (Solidity contracts run on Dfinity) https://dfinity.network

> Europe has many countries with at least the same wish for personal space as the US

Maybe this is me being ethnocentric, but it seems the American way of embracing diversity (through political correctness, affirmative action, etc) has come at the cost of craving for isolation and independence from each other.

> Is Waymo clear about what the end goal is?

I think they're clear:

"We're at the point when it's really important to find how real people, outside the Google environment, will use this technology," said John Krafcik, Waymo's chief executive officer. "Our goal is that they will use this for all their transportation needs."

It seems they are split on whether car ownership or ride-sharing will be more viable:

"Yes, self-driving technology makes sense for ride-sharing," said Krafcik, [...] "It also makes sense for personal car ownership." Transportation to and from transit hubs and logistics also made his list.

> Images, gifs and short videos seems like a logical step forward for mass consumption.

Yup, their first order of business is to optimize for the widest swath of users. That being said, as feeds become more customized, I'm sure you'll start seeing more rich articles if that's what you desire.

Twitter delivers desirable information because the user curates it strongly (it's normal to follow/unfollow users over time), but Facebook will likely replace that effort with algorithms.

Not sure their what their heuristics are for narrowing the search space, but there certainly are some good ones. For instance, early versions of blockchain.info's wallet generated private keys by reading an ARC4 stream that had been seeded with Math.random() calls xor'd with timestamps. Quite the circus!

Of all the Deep* and *.ai branding going around, this is by far the best yet. Email is a great starting point, since we're often more prone to being (brutally, rudely) honest in isolation. Is there a wearable that does this sort of thing with Biometrics and/or sound monitoring?

I love how this was upvoted #1 in 11 minutes with no comments. Clearly many people just want to watch uber burn.