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New comment by bri3k in "Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)"

bri3k — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:25:49 +0000

It is called the Greater Fool theory. I know that it is a foolish purchase, it true value is less than what I paid for. But there is a greater fool out there that will pay more.

New comment by bri3k in "I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor"

bri3k — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:47:28 +0000

A hundred years ago he would be at church praying to god for a cure every day. He has replaced that with AI, the effect is the same. Looking for a solution/cure for when medicine has failed.

New comment by bri3k in "Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025)"

bri3k — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:36:33 +0000

Yeah, the label says half milk half cream.

New comment by bri3k in "Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025)"

bri3k — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:04:40 +0000

I don’t buy half and half cream very often. I did not know that for a basic product they were selling items that aren’t just milk and cream. Ignorance on my part? Sure, but there is over a hundred different things I buy. It would be doing a audit everytime I go shopping.

New comment by bri3k in "When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)"

bri3k — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:31:57 +0000

Traveling through time at a rate of 1sec per second.

New comment by bri3k in "Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok"

bri3k — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:22:09 +0000

Same article says he well paid. I’ll grant you that alot of teachers are paid little but there is nothing about money being in the discussion.

New comment by bri3k in "Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok"

bri3k — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:41:02 +0000

Are they overworked? In the article he states he is coaching and run three preps in addition to teaching. Less can be more.

New comment by bri3k in "It's rude to show AI output to people"

bri3k — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:41:07 +0000

I always thought this is the end game, my ai agent talking to their ai agent. No human paying attention to the conversation at all

New comment by bri3k in "Requiem for a Solar Plant"

bri3k — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:15:34 +0000

He started out to find ways to lower his tax burden. Found something with solar infrastructure in a different state. Went ahead with it in spite of having no experience with the local laws or infrastructure projects and wondered why it failed?

New comment by bri3k in "Requiem for a Solar Plant"

bri3k — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:11:45 +0000

Don't forget in the middle he states that this is a tax dodge on capital gains from said crypto money.

New comment by bri3k in "BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of"

bri3k — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:05:59 +0000

In a lot of cities the broadcast towers are concentrated in the same place, I wonder how effective it could be.

New comment by bri3k in "The Last Drops of Mexico City"

bri3k — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:16:07 +0000

I hate when they promote the use of low-flow toilets which save 1-2 gallons when compared to irrigation of farm land measured in acre-inches of water. A acre-inch of water is 27,000 gallons. Corn needs 12 acre-inches to grow to maturity, or over 325,000 per acre.

New comment by bri3k in "It's been 30 years since Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV bug reared its ugly head"

bri3k — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:31:43 +0000

And they only named it that due to the fact they could not trademark a number, like 386.

New comment by bri3k in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

bri3k — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:41:22 +0000

Agree. If one device was booby-trapped the first thing I would be doing is disassembling all my others devices for the same.

New comment by bri3k in "[dead]"

bri3k — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:23:57 +0000

I loved this cameo Bob did on the last episode of the Late Late Show. https://youtu.be/Bknt00olZ0Q?t=2178

New comment by bri3k in "Entrust Certificate Distrust"

bri3k — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:11:39 +0000

Untrusted by Google is what most laypeople will get out of it.

New comment by bri3k in "Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline"

bri3k — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:50:56 +0000

Sounds like a opportunity to create a LLM to interact with their LLM.

New comment by bri3k in "1.18k drawings of plant root systems"

bri3k — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:16:53 +0000

USDA Pomological Collection is another set if you want to see the fruiting bodies.

https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vi...

New comment by bri3k in "Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch"

bri3k — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:15:44 +0000

You can change the resolution in System Settings->Displays, make it so the entire display is below the notch.

New comment by bri3k in "California Bill Wants to Mandate Electronic 'Speed Limiters' in Cars"

bri3k — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:23:03 +0000

Alot of cars do have a governor limiting the top speed, 115 and 155 are common. This is mostly because you need to look at every part of the car to know that is could go that fast. Car manufacturers limit it so the tires won't blow out for example.