lprubin

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by lprubin 7y ago
Alternatively, instead of passively ingesting information in the hopes that it will be useful to you, as soon as you decided you wanted to get a programming job you could have done a quick google search to learn about the state of the indus
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by lprubin 7y ago
Sounds like a great consulting niche. It's a simple to understand value proposition and I imagine there is somebody powerful at many successful companies that would love to see the huge server cost line item go way down on their P&amp
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by lprubin 7y ago
I was playing online poker professionally during the peak of that craze.
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by lprubin 7y ago
Thats a good start. What about telling them to never answer a call from an unknown number. Any legit call will leave a voicemail and that will weed out a large number of scammers. Next, if the voicemail is clearly a robot voice, make sure
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by lprubin 7y ago
If you have excess income, consider committing to give X% of your salary/income away to charity. You might find researching effective charities that you are passionate about to be an interesting endeavor which might satisfy the "s
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by lprubin 7y ago
I think then the discussion would be around why only minimizing suffering for humans. If minimizing suffering is a good thing, why is there not also value in minimizing suffering for all beings that can suffer?
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by lprubin 7y ago
> There is some legitimacy to the idea that we should eat whatever we please because we are the apex predator. Many men are strong enough to forcibly overpower many women and therefore there is some legitimacy to the idea that they shoul
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by lprubin 7y ago
I’d just like to point out that Shopify isn’t a closed platform. Shopify has the concept of a private app that is not in the app store and not approved by Shopify. So a store can either build/hire an agency to build their own unapprov
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by lprubin 7y ago
According to this survey, 68.1% of people's main reason for going vegan was "for the animals" while "health" was only 17.4%. https://vomadlife.com/blogs/news/why-people-go-vegan-2019-gl...
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by lprubin 7y ago
I had never heard that animal corpses were used in a large scale industrial farming fertilizer so I just looked through the most common soil fertilizers, at least in the U.S. I don't believe a single one of them uses animal corpses. I
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by lprubin 7y ago
"These companies are likely to charge any private astronaut a similar "taxi fare" to what they intend to charge Nasa for its astronauts - close to $60m per flight."
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by lprubin 7y ago
Anywhere from 2 to 20 hours. Average is probably 4-5. But I have a ton of other proposals now that I copy and paste from and just fill in relevant details. Used to take me longer.
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by lprubin 7y ago
It's all about getting to a point where I can write a proposal that will blow away the competition. I believe a great proposal includes: 1. A deep understanding of why the client is doing this project and how it delivers value to the c
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by lprubin 7y ago
Depends on the the size of the new project. If the project is small, I usually don't. If the project is large, I tend towards a new speccing project.
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by lprubin 7y ago
Correct, this is definitely very draining. My solution was to add a marketing wing to my consultancy. That marketing wing is hyper focused on launch and growth strategy. A high percentage of my clients purchase this "upsell" and
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by lprubin 7y ago
If I could give you one piece of advice it would be this: Charge a small but reasonable fee for speccing a project. (My fee is $500 based in NYC). There is nothing more demoralizing then spending a bunch of time and effort speccing out a co
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by lprubin 7y ago
Definitely not. I frequently use landing page tools with built in templates, analytics, and A/B testing tools such as Unbounce, Leadpages, Webflow or one of the many others. Many email platforms such as Mailchimp are starting to offe
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by lprubin 7y ago
This company does that with extra office space: https://liquidspace.com/share-office-meeting-space They have a Slack integration that can ping you when somebody places a request that matches your availability.
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by lprubin 7y ago
$2.25/hr for 8 hours is $18. I don't know about the SF prices but in Manhattan you can get a "hot desk" for $30/day at some fairly nice places. I'd guess in Brooklyn you can probably find/negotiate somet
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by lprubin 7y ago
I did it at burning man at night and it was simultaneously one of the most exhilarating and terrifying things I’ve ever done. I feel extremely lucky to have not crashed. About 2:50 of this video gives some sense of how chaotic and distracti
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by lprubin 7y ago
My friend launched EnvKey ( https://www.envkey.com/ ) completely solo and grew it slowly over time. He eventually went through YC and took on investment but the first few years were bootstrapped. But he's still solo wi
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by lprubin 8y ago
Here is some data showing 70% by the second generation and 90% by the third: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/time/money/392530... Perhaps you just met some of the exceptions.
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by lprubin 8y ago
Another factor to consider with cows is large scale cattle farming, grass fed or not, releases huge amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere. Methane gas is estimated to be 28[1] times worse for climate change than C02. [1] https:/
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by lprubin 8y ago
I’ve seen it estimated that it takes 2,000 gallons of water to produce a gallon of cow milk which would be twice what it takes to produce almond milk.
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by lprubin 8y ago
This has to be a big component of it. Working 16 to 28 hour consecutive shifts, often over night, where a mistake can potentially be fatal, with very irregular sleep hours. That has to be a recipe for disaster. After I learned that was wh
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by lprubin 8y ago
I say yes. Can we breed humans as slaves and say “would it be better that they didn’t exist than live a horrible existence?” to justify breeding them? Because that is the exact logic slaveowners used. Same with dogfighting. If we breed dogs
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by lprubin 8y ago
I believe the important distinction is not whether or not pigs and cows are sentient/language capable. Instead the real question is can they suffer. And if they can is it acceptable to cause that suffering simply for entertainment val
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by lprubin 8y ago
An estimated $2.11 billion U.S. sales. I would think that has to impact milk sales. [0] In their market research of consumers, the same article found that many people are intentionally consuming less dairy. ...nearly one in five (19%) Amer
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by lprubin 8y ago
It sounds like these dairy subsidies fluctuate greatly. In 2016, the dairy industry asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a staggering $150 million to buy their excess cheese. A spokesperson for the National Farmers Union sai
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by lprubin 8y ago
The legality of mushrooms is fairly varied around the world. If you're willing to travel you've got some options. However, if you have no prior experience, I'd recommend bringing a friend to be your sober sitter, ideally some

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