lprubin

You could partner with a developer and create some themes and sell them in theme marketplaces. That's one way designers can make scalable recurring revenue. Most of the customer support will be on the developer's side to solve bugs and installation problems.

On the consumer side we could stop eating seafood.

One possible business incentive is that if Promise's outcomes actually cause an increase in crime, governments will be far less likely to hire them.

Do you enjoy writing? Are you decent at it? If you answer no to either of those questions, you might be in for a struggle.

Do you think that the average earth ecosystem is better or worse off with modern human civilization?

That's a good point and it depends on where you fall on the nature vs nurture scale. But in terms of passing on knowledge and morality, I would think nurture would be vastly more important than nature. However, I admit I don't have the research to back that claim up.

I don't consider them interchangeable. But the thread is about people's reasoning for deciding to have children and so I asked a followup question about a specific reason where I thought for that particular reason, adoption might have been the "superior" option." I understand it's a complicated decision.

That being said, I can definitely see why adopting a "troubled teen" would be more difficult than having your own kid. But is adopting a baby really that much different than having your own?

I understand that the adoption process is a big pain. But compared to the massive physical strain on the body of the mother and the risk of death / debilitating injury / birth defects / trauma of losing a pregnancy / risk of postpartum depression etc etc etc, I really can't understand how that could possibly even compare to dealing with an annoying and slow bureaucratic process.

By your logic, wouldn't adopting be a better way to help the world? You would still be able to pass on your knowledge and attempt to create a better version of yourself, but you wouldn't be producing yet another person straining the resources of the world. Not to mention the massive value added to the life of your adopted child.

> "Raising them in a minimally harsh and 'humane' environment"

The vast majority of meat eaten in the developed world comes from factory farms where the treatment of animals is pretty horrific. If you don't believe me on how bad it is, watch the movie Earthlings. It's free on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlBSuuy50Y

I'd be happy to.

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Factory farming today is a pretty far cry from grandpa's small family farm.

If your only understanding of imitation meat is "those burgers you buy at the grocery store," then my point is that there is a whole world of imitation meat you haven't experienced. I think you're pre-maturely judging a whole genre of food.

If you're ever in NYC, let me know. I'll take you on a tour of vegan cuisine that will knock your socks off.

Make a list of all the customer support requests you get and order them by frequency of request. Likely there will be a bunch near the top that are questions/confusions that could be prevented if the user was more informed. Highlight the answer to those questions in your onboarding flow, especially in emails and in app messaging.

A question about the 500 lines of code and tooling limitations. Is this something that is inherently an issue of the underlying technology or do you predict that this is something that is likely to be improved upon over time? And if you think it'll be improved, are we years away from big improvements? Less?

Believe it or not, I've found a decent amount of high quality photos to use on flickr's creative commons search:

https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Don't forget solving the gravity disparity problem.

I really like Kobo Abe too. I've read Woman in the Dunes, The Box Man, and The Ruined Map. Which others would you recommend?

There are a number of testing kits out there:

http://testkitplus.com/product/mdma-test-kit

See the movie the Zero Theorem for an example of your game.

Out of curiosity, what's stopping you from going vegan or vegetarian in the interim?

As a thought experiment, would it be OK to breed human slaves because at least they got to exist?

I was part of the Beta when it actually was a web app. The reason I was told for switching to a native app was that it's much easier to secure a native app vs a web app. I think browser extensions are one of the big reasons for that.

One problem I see this solving is passing ENV vars between developers. Teams I've been on usually kept them in a google doc or emailed/slack'd them around. If I was on vacation when a new API key got added or an old one changed, sometimes I'd have a difficult debugging day ahead of me.

While what you are saying is true, one of the antibiotics that is used in farm animals is penicillin.

Also, consider the following:

> In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the CDC all testified before Congress that there is a connection between the routine use of antibiotics for meat production and the declining effectiveness of antibiotics for people.

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, Director of the CDC, noted that “there is strong scientific evidence of a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans.”

http://www.livablefutureblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/...

My mistake. Animals are stuffed with antibiotics but you're right that swine and bird flu are caused by viruses. This article explains why factory farming is dangerous with regards to bird flu:

> The conditions on these farms greatly contribute to the creation of deadly pathogens, including influenza viruses. Here’s how it works: Wild aquatic birds are the primordial source of all influenza A viruses — the ones that have the potential to cause pandemics. However, people rarely become infected directly from aquatic birds. Usually, an intermediate host must be involved. This intermediate host provides the right biological setting for the virus to transform into something that can easily infect a human. And that’s where chickens and other farmed animals come in.

Most avian influenzas are mild, low-pathogenic (i.e., not very lethal) viruses. However, once they enter poultry factory farms (through insects or workers carrying the virus, for example), they can rapidly mutate into highly-pathogenic (very lethal) viruses, even over very short periods of time. Since 1990, outbreaks of highly-pathogenic virus subtypes have increased substantially among farmed birds compared with the years prior to 1990 (3, 4). The intensive confinement of birds has been found to facilitate both the increasing frequency and scale of these outbreaks (3, 5).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aysha-akhtar/bird-flu_b_279813...

If you're worried about antibiotic resistance, consider cutting back or eliminating animal agriculture products from your diet.

According to the FDA, 80% of antibiotics used in the US are given to farm animals. This is because it is cheaper to give antibiotics to every farm animal just in case rather than giving the medical care needed to properly diagnose and treat. Bird flu or swine flu has a decent probability of being the next epidemic because of this practice.

http://www.sustainabletable.org/257/antibiotics

EDIT: My mistake, bird and swine flu are caused by viruses not bacteria and are therefore not affected by the antibiotic stuffing of farm animals. But the crowding and conditions of factory farms do contribute to potential bird and swine flu outbreaks. See my comment below.

Sell courses, tutoring, training on Arduino and Rasberry Pi.

A list of things that I think give a loud voice in government besides voting.

- Donating to a candidate

- Volunteering to help a candidate's campaign

- Running for office

- Working for a government agency

- Writing about politics in blog, news publication, or scholarly journal.

- Writing and circulating petitions

- Protesting

- Flyering for a cause

- Creating tech that supports a political cause

- Calling and emailing candidates and politicians about an issue