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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 cr…

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

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/downloa…

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 betw…

Thanks!

Link to studies? That is a bold claim.

Holy cow! You're the pixhawk/mavsdk guy! Big fan!

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'…

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 significan…

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 …

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 …

I thought it was neat until I pressed the "Preset" button on the left. Do yourself a favor and try it.

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 mod…

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 …

We use growthbook and love it. In what ways do you differ?

Growthbook has a better UI and is more fully featured. They also have a java SDK https://docs.growthbook.io/lib/java

How many people know what galvanic corrosion means?

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…

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 un…

Could be a harbinger of whats to come. Reminds me of this Sequoia graphic. https://twitter.com/PanchalBrinda/status/852947043576426500/... .

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.