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New comment by myroon5 in "California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition"

myroon5 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:15:53 +0000

> AMA was lobbying for more residencies for years

The AMA lobbies for more _subsidized_ residencies while downplaying that unsubsidized residencies also exist and could expand without waiting on more taxpayer funding

New comment by myroon5 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

myroon5 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:19:34 +0000

For those ok purging the whole newsfeed: https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator

New comment by myroon5 in "Pareto Front"

myroon5 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:14:55 +0000

(A few years outdated) AWS EC2 instance type pareto frontier:

https://github.com/PatMyron/cloud#compute--memory-unit-price...

New comment by myroon5 in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

myroon5 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:02:32 +0000

Seems more common in media fields (Van Gogh, Lovecraft, etc.)

New comment by myroon5 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

myroon5 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:03:20 +0000

Discounting from higher default prices rather than penalizing from lower default prices is more of a branding difference than an economic difference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952034

New comment by myroon5 in "Regular expressions that work “everywhere”"

myroon5 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:57:20 +0000

JSON schema's docs also have a recommended regular expression subset:

https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...

New comment by myroon5 in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

myroon5 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:09:16 +0000

Social Security and Medicare are ~26% and ~16.5% of the federal budget (excluding the 15% of the budget that's just financing previous years' budgets):

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

New comment by myroon5 in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

myroon5 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:09:33 +0000

> no reason they can’t publish valuable work with the right collaborators

Despite h-index claiming to balance quantity and quality, it obviously incentives quantity over quality (no single publication can increment h-index as much as churning out a few worthless publications that cite each other); med students overwhelmingly follow those incentives trying to secure better residencies

New comment by myroon5 in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

myroon5 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:36:14 +0000

> As of 2024, 38 states have passed bills and executive orders designed to discourage boycotts of Israel

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_th...

New comment by myroon5 in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

myroon5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:22:47 +0000

Musk and Bezos don't even own that percentage of Tesla and Amazon respectively, let alone all American wealth

New comment by myroon5 in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

myroon5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:17:28 +0000

That graph literally just has fake labels. In reality, millionaires collectively have more than an order of magnitude more wealth than billionaires: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4zjnFxGWYkEF4nqMi/...

New comment by myroon5 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

myroon5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:58:33 +0000

> (1) Insight scores

> (2) ETF management

(1) seems like their (stated) differentiator itself; plenty of organizations already offer ETFs that omit selected companies

I doubt their data is cleaner internally than it is on their website. They're bringing in millions annually from their expense ratios:

https://www.inspireetf.com/etfs

and overpromising/underdelivering on their ability to diligently deliver (1)

New comment by myroon5 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

myroon5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:09 +0000

> international subsidiaries

Secondary listings allow entire companies to trade on multiple exchanges (not just corresponding subsidiaries)

So I agree that it was likely just a mistake to list multiple listings of the same companies, but the fact that they usually receive different scores proves their process isn't diligent:

* $GOOGL.MX is dinged for multiple non-Mexico-specific violations that the other listing isn't

New comment by myroon5 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

myroon5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:08:59 +0000

Most of the examples I provided are due to differing country codes; their site fails to recognize things like Alphabet trading on a Mexican stock exchange is still the same company: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL.MX/

$GOOGL.MX scoring differently than other $GOOGL listings makes me extremely skeptical that humans are diligently creating these scores (finance professionals should've recognized that secondary listings like $GOOGL.MX don't need their own scoring)

New comment by myroon5 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

myroon5 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:01:00 +0000

Guess who organized decades-long misinformation campaigns to make them as essential as they currently are: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_denial

Regardless, most companies I checked have multiple different ratings because that site can't even do basic data cleaning:

https://inspireinsight.com/AAPL/US https://inspireinsight.com/AAPL/PT

https://inspireinsight.com/GOOGL/GT https://inspireinsight.com/GOOGL/MX

https://inspireinsight.com/MSFT/AU https://inspireinsight.com/MSFT/US

https://inspireinsight.com/AVGO/US https://inspireinsight.com/0YXG/GB

https://inspireinsight.com/TSM/US https://inspireinsight.com/5425/TW

https://inspireinsight.com/LUBEREF/SA https://inspireinsight.com/2223/SA

so even they disagree with their own ratings ;)

New comment by myroon5 in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

myroon5 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:19:56 +0000

$PTL "screens" for:

* air quality

* environmental risk

* GHG emissions

* ecological impact

* product sustainability

https://www.inspireetf.com/screening

yet weights ExxonMobil, the 21st largest company:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

as by far their 2nd largest holding:

https://www.inspireetf.com/etf/ptl

New comment by myroon5 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

myroon5 — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:39:49 +0000

> account for education

and nutrition, pollution, infectious diseases, etc

New comment by myroon5 in "Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

myroon5 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:37:24 +0000

https://www.wired.com/story/volodymyr-zelensky-suit-polymark...

New comment by myroon5 in "Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets"

myroon5 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:53:32 +0000

One difference between federal-level prediction markets and state-level gambling is that most states had limited gambling to 21+, so most state governments wanted more nuanced options than outright bans

New comment by myroon5 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

myroon5 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:13:34 +0000

> outside of China

[Nitpick] There are a few more AWS partitions like GovCloud:

https://jasonbutz.info/2023/07/aws-partitions/