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> 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


> 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...


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


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/...


The data on the graph is real, but the labels are made up for vibes.


$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


Oil/Gas/Petroleum is essential for our economy to function, and the line between "ethical" and "not ethical" is a dial (one among many that all need to be tuned together), not a switch.

$PTL/Inspire does not adjudicate "dial" ethical issues, just switches -- company practices/policies that it views as black-and-white good/bad. "It would be ethical if you produced N% less" doesn't fit that category.



They update ratings every year I think... there's a spreadsheet with before/after values for each company that you can download.


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)


Scores on different exchanges may be due to varying behavior by international subsidiaries -- MSFT in Australia may be doing something objectionable that MSFT US does not do, for example. I'm not sure though.

What I think is more likely is that it's a dumb oversight in the web app and/or data - maybe an intern stubbed out international stocks and it got pushed to production


> 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


I think there's 2 sides of the company:

- (1) Insight scores

- (2) ETF management

I think the pipeline between (1) and (2) is probably tight within the company (probably a few big Excel spreadsheets) and the (2) side has a lot of brains.

But the (1) side needs to do more work on the pipeline between those spreadsheets and the Web, and maybe hire more/better software dev help for that. They'd do better to use Postgres as their source of truth.


> (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)


> account for education

and nutrition, pollution, infectious diseases, etc



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


> outside of China

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

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


Yes, I'm certainly aware of the other partitions. That's why I said all the public cloud regions outside China.

Yeah, "govcloud" is technically available to the public, although there are other partitions reserved for government use that are not, and the naming is a big hairy mess. Many service teams don't have any US-citizens-in-the-USA working for them, and they cannot in any way adequately support these regions.

My on-call experience improved significantly when I moved from the US to Canada, and I got taken off the (extremely thin!) list of engineers eligible to ssh into RDS instances in Govcloud. There were so few USA-citizen-in-USA engineers that I had been getting tickets for services and instances in Govcloud about which I had only the very thinnest knowledge… and then I was limited in my ability to consult with others who were actually experts. The customers in Govcloud paid a premium to be there, I got paged for a bunch of tickets which I was ill-prepared to handle, and it was generally a bad experience for everyone.

Working with the airgapped secret/top-secret partitions was even worse. You would get paged incessantly and then someone who was cleared for access but knew almost nothing about the service in question would have to go to a SCIF in the DC area, and you would exchange screenshots and text instructions with a turnaround time of hours or days.


Since this article was written, AWS also added European Sovereign Cloud as a partition: aws-eusc.


The intersection of Bellevue Place, Bellevue Court, and Bellevue Ave in Seattle:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4RyEKj3ArdhoJYp69


I joke with my wife that this is the nexus of the universe.


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