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New comment by broptimist in "Mistral Large 4"

broptimist — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:44:00 +0000

This is moving the goalposts. You said "have more money than."

New comment by broptimist in "Mistral Large 4"

broptimist — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:06:25 +0000

This is untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

Median wealth per adult has the USA at #28, below Italy, Spain, Slovenia, and Portugal.

New comment by broptimist in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

broptimist — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:21:46 +0000

"nuke" means a nuclear weapon

New comment by broptimist in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

broptimist — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:35:27 +0000

I remember that 49% figure as well, but I think it got changed during restructuring into a Public Benefit Corporation.

https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-openai-reach-new-...

New comment by broptimist in "Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity"

broptimist — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:24:01 +0000

Microsoft holds a 27% ownership stake in OpenAI

New comment by broptimist in "World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject"

broptimist — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:32:59 +0000

Despite not asking for an explanation, I’ll give one anyway since you seem not to have resolved your grievance.

“American” is the correct adjective in English to describe the United States’ people and government. There is simply no equivalent to the Spanish “estadounidense.”

Furthermore, North America and South America are considered to be separate continents, and if you want to refer to them both together, you say “the Americas”, plural.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

New comment by broptimist in "Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health"

broptimist — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:43:47 +0000

I assume your third link was meant to be to this study: https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf

My first criticism would be that intervening only to restrict Facebook would likely just result in a substitution effect, with instagram, snapchat, youtube, reddit, etc filling the void. Likewise, if I remove cake from my diet for 4 weeks but make no restrictions on all other forms of sugary baked goods, I'm not likely to see the same magnitude of effect as I would've otherwise.

Here's an associational study that found almost 3x odds of having depression between the most and least frequent users of social media sites. This was among US adults aged 19-32 and adjusted for age, sex, race, relationship status, living situation, household income, and education level https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853817/

New comment by broptimist in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

broptimist — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:58:27 +0000

So you wouldn't be in favor of a carbon tax? What about a tax on tobacco sales in a universal healthcare system? (to offset tobacco users' additional healthcare costs)

New comment by broptimist in "The origin story of our new ortholinear keyboard"

broptimist — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:07:06 +0000

From another one of their posts: "We are launching a crowdfunding campaign in spring, and we will start production right afterward. Our plan is to begin shipping in late summer or early fall."

New comment by broptimist in "Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study"

broptimist — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:08:04 +0000

Harmful crop breeds would have been selected against over the course of many generations, right? Now we're doing it on a larger scale, so the risks and rewards are greater. What is our knowledge of the risks and rewards? Are the rewards aligned with general human wellbeing, or just a profit motive? I don't know.