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myroon5

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    Comment #49205202

    (A few years outdated) AWS EC2 instance type pareto frontier: https://github.com/PatMyron/cloud#compute--memory-unit-price...

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    Comment #49178092

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

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    Comment #48923873

    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/i…

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    Comment #48704196

    JSON schema's docs also have a recommended regular expression subset: https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...

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    Comment #48703678

    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.…

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    Comment #48669605

    > 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 (n…

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    Comment #48665911

    > 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...

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    Comment #48403397

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

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    Comment #48403324

    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…

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    Comment #48402204

    > (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…

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    Comment #48401024

    > 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 mis…

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    Comment #48393221

    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…

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    Comment #48391275

    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, m…

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    Comment #48379089

    $PTL "screens" for: * air quality * environmental risk * GHG emissions * ecological impact * product sustainability https://www.inspireetf.com/screening yet weights ExxonMobil, the…

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    Comment #48253491

    > account for education and nutrition, pollution, infectious diseases, etc

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    Comment #48225520

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

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    Comment #48179941

    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 opti…

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    Comment #48073974

    > outside of China [Nitpick] There are a few more AWS partitions like GovCloud: https://jasonbutz.info/2023/07/aws-partitions/

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    Comment #47994277

    The intersection of Bellevue Place, Bellevue Court, and Bellevue Ave in Seattle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4RyEKj3ArdhoJYp69

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    Comment #47924011

    But can a wool shoe company? https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/a...

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    Comment #47719463

    Step 1: don't pitch from a conartist6 username

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    Comment #47667624

    And claim large bonuses were handed over as cash? Because payroll software like ADP sells employees' compensation data

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    Comment #47522175

    > $4.99/mo subscription would yield more revenue than Facebook makes in ARPU Even ignoring the adverse selection of who'd subscribe, their ARPU is higher than that in North America…

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    Comment #47450286

    'Median total farm household income has exceeded the median U.S. household income in every year since 1998' 'In 2024, median farm operator household income exceeded median U.S. hou…

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    Comment #47294835

    https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/2025-evaluator-research