<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: eudamoniac</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eudamoniac</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:30:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eudamoniac" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eudamoniac in "The rational conclusion of doomerism is violence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are right, and it's like someone else said, a morality story. Of course violence is sometimes the answer, the ends do justify the means if the ends are important enough, etc. They are indoctrinated and brainwashed, in the purest sense of the word, into not even considering these ideas.<p>I hold it to be self evident that political violence is the only potential action that the people of North Korea could take to save themselves. Peaceful protest and voting, obviously, does not work. A massive mob rising up and stabbing dear leader with a dinner knife, at the cost of probably hundreds or thousands of themselves, might work.<p>To deny the above paragraph is incoherent. All governments are somewhere on the scale of justifiably being overthrown with violence. It is a valid option, and how tyrannical the government has to be before the option is justifiable is a matter of opinion. All unpretended shock and horror at the sentiment is either by the sheltered or by the afraid.<p>People know this subconsciously. How many stories of righteous revolution have we seen and cheered for? Shrek, Hunger Games, The Matrix, Braveheart, Dune, Star Wars; everyone knows these protagonists killing government officials are in the right. They will never make the connection, but they know it, and the intellectually honest will acknowledge it. Are we ruled by such different beasts than those characters are?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:44:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758906</link><dc:creator>eudamoniac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eudamoniac in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It comes from 4chan, like all decent memes<p><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nothing-ever-happens" rel="nofollow">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nothing-ever-happens</a></p>
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<p>> The man appears to be Asian, with an estimated income range of USD 50,000 - USD 75,000.<p>> These people seem to have low self-esteem, is slightly introverted, has high emotional stability, is not very adventurous and does have some self-control hence we can target them with wooden puzzles, adventure novels, travel products, personalized houseware, such as Melissa & Doug Wooden Puzzles, Penguin Classics Adventure Novels, Osprey Travel Backpacks, Viski Personalized Whiskey Glasses, credit cards, life insurance, home internet and streaming services, such as Capital One Credit Cards, State Farm Life Insurance, Xfinity Home Internet, Netflix Streaming Services.<p>Hahaha no, what the fuck. Every part of the response was wrong except the objective race/clothes/setting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:12:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753191</link><dc:creator>eudamoniac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eudamoniac in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Need a non-paywalled link to glean anything here, because the abstract does not mention the distillation method. Were they even trying to boil off the methanol first?</p>
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<p>You're flipping the ingredients here. The <i>vapor</i> will contain some amount of the liquid that is NOT at boiling point. When you distill ethanol, the vapor contains some water. When you distill methanol, the vapor contains some ethanol. The output contains both.<p>That says nothing about the remains of the input. When removing methanol we are trying to get it out of the input side. So while the output will indeed contain both, that doesn't mean the input will still have any methanol.</p>
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<p>Fuck's sake. I've bought some decent bottles of whisky all in for less than $27.</p>
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<p>Air traffic controllers making $155,000 are not the same people going homeless from a month or two of missed payments.</p>
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<p>Absolutely negligible. Please stop with the propaganda. Everyone is fine with a 2-week delay for payroll, but wait a couple more weeks and it's suddenly you "stop being paid" and give a "loan to the government". There are plenty of downsides to being ATC but this one is not a genuine framing.</p>
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<p>You don't stop being paid, you just get your payment delayed.</p>
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<p>This is almost certainly false. Source?</p>
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<p>1 is obviously non universal. You don't "lose" anything, but the nature of a lens is that it becomes harder, though completely possible, to focus up close afterwards, unless you're old and already can't with glasses.<p>You can test yourself to see what would happen. Wearing your nearsighted glasses, can you still read a book? You'll notice it is harder than without them. If so, then you still can after LASIK.</p>
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<p>C: they go through the legal justice system which has nothing to do with music, and people continue to play the songs they want to hear</p>
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<p>Same way as term life insurance, I expect</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:26:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718675</link><dc:creator>eudamoniac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eudamoniac in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I'm totally fine with tilling at first, I was just trying to save money on renting a tiller.<p>Despite being sandy loam the drainage is really bad just a few inches down. I think the rocks are so densely packed together and in such great quantities that it's long to drain. I'm hoping the roots can get through and help this. If not, I'm going to have to rent a big tiller. One thing I've been doing that has obvious benefits is putting wet cardboard as mulch; the soil under the cardboard stays moist far longer. Unsightly, but definitely improving germination. I'll probably do this throughout the garden underneath landscaping rock since cardboard is essentially free.</p>
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<p>The representatives proposed the legislation, and the people want this. This is democracy working as intended regardless of your preferred flavor.</p>
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<p>Is your argument that we should ignore the will of the people? Because this is what the people of Maine want. Why exactly should Maine be forced to have data centers in it when its citizens don't want that?</p>
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<p>Among my sample of friends, who are mostly right wing and successful, crime is literally the primary issue of their time. That's practically the sole problem in their lives. Not sure why their political leanings are relevant. This is what a vast swathe of people actually care about.</p>
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<p>This sort of angry post, with many demands "attitude adjust" "delegate"  and invectives "close-minded" "lazy"  never appeared for any other technology shift. React devs never posted like this about jQuery devs. Mobile app devs never posted like this about mobile web devs. Yet tons of AI users post like this about non-AI-using devs.<p>Is it some kind of fear or doubt? It's a strange phenomenon.<p>Like for example I strongly believe Typescript is better than Javascript and needs to be used instead for any serious project. But if someone says they don't like it, I cannot imagine myself writing a post like yours about it. First of all I don't care what they use, but second of all if I really wanted to convince them it would not look anything like this. Your post and many like it reads like anger and condescension and incredulity.</p>
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<p>I really don't understand why you people always say these things so matter of factly. I'd put a lot of money (and do, in the markets) on you being wrong. I'm pretty sure in ten years I will not have a problem keeping a software job without using AI.</p>
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<p>I did get a soil test, but not for organic matter; I assume it's zero. My desert neighborhood has caliche under rocky sandy loam, but it also has a lot of very large old trees, so I'm <i>hoping</i> the caliche is permeable and not just that the original builders excavated huge holes. It's so rocky that a soil probe and broadfork is unusable, but as deep as I've tested (2 feet down) I've been able to still dig with a shovel.<p>This year, since I just moved in, I'm just doing a small 10x10ft testbed. I mixed in a few inches of compost manure, shallowly because the soil is so rocky. My plan is to do a biomass/nitrogen crop mix this spring, which is currently seeded, and then in fall do another similar mix along with deep rooted radish for decompaction. Then hopefully next spring I can plant real things. If I find that after a year of cover cropping the soil is still unusable, then I'll bring out the power tiller and pickaxe for the rest of the yard and get the amendments mixed in deeply. I've read a lot of permaculture books in the last year, and I'd like to garden in that way, but I'm certainly not against buying bulk amendments to get started.<p>12-18 isn't deep enough for me, since I am going to have large shrubs (need 3ft) and perhaps trees (need 5ft).</p>
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