David_Axelrod

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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Love anything that can accomplish the same goal with less material. I originally thought he was going to store the mechanical energy from turning it on and off, similar to those cranked flashlight. Rf makes way more sense!
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
About $32 billion comes from property taxes and $38 billion from "other taxes" (mostly income tax). [0] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads/pdf/fp11-23.pdf
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
The police budget is ~6 billion, out of about a $110.5 billion budget [0] https://www.nyc.gov/site/omb/publications/agency-budgets-pro... [1] https://www.nyc.gov/assets/omb/downloads
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Thanks!
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Link to studies? That is a bold claim.
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Holy cow! You're the pixhawk/mavsdk guy! Big fan!
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Software Engineer at Boldvoice here, also learning Mandarin. I've been told my Chinese accent is awful due in large part to misuse of tones and overemphasizing articles like 了. We'd love to build something for all languages but ar
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Youglish is a great tool and we often hear users reference using it. It's nice to have so many examples available for a given piece of text. What I think makes BoldVoice significantly better is the ability to get feedback on your speci
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
You do realize you're on hackernews, a platform built by YCombinator right? You can apply with your startup just like anyone else and, if you're good enough, they'll invest half a million dollars. I can't wait to see wha
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
AWS is the backbone of the internet, amazon warehouses are some of the most efficient in the world, lowering costs for everyone. People subscribe to prime in droves because of the value they get from it. Even if you zoom in to smaller asset
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
I thought it was neat until I pressed the "Preset" button on the left. Do yourself a favor and try it.
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Don't mind the other commentor, spirited discussion is always welcome! I was thinking about this and even hacker news is a good example of how an html view can differ from data model. Hacker news doesn't show you the vote count of
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Most of the time you dont just expose your internal api routes to the world. You need to write curated public facing routes that dont include certain schema or records. Takes time to write and maintain that different set of endpoints
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
We use growthbook and love it. In what ways do you differ?
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Growthbook has a better UI and is more fully featured. They also have a java SDK https://docs.growthbook.io/lib/java
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
How many people know what galvanic corrosion means?
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
Not sure why people gate keep so hard around "he'S NOt An engiNEER". Even if he's not writing the code anymore, having deep technical understanding of important day to day tasks is an important quality in any leader in a
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by David_Axelrod 3y ago
I remember my perception changed when I watched an interview with musk talk about the material science challenges of panel gaps on teslas. You can't have that level of knowledge unless you worked very close to the problem. https:&#x2F
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by David_Axelrod 4y ago
Could be a harbinger of whats to come. Reminds me of this Sequoia graphic. https://twitter.com/PanchalBrinda/status/852947043576426500/... .
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by David_Axelrod 4y ago
God damn it. I really wanted to see what your paywall looked like but got hit with "hey signup. hey link your stripe". Show me an example.