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New comment by mykowebhn in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

mykowebhn — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:02:47 +0000

Ah, okay. I didn't realize that. My bad!

New comment by mykowebhn in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

mykowebhn — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:34:10 +0000

Forgive me for saying this, but I think you may be drinking too much of the kool-aid.

If some of your projects are monetizable, couldn't you move forward without VC help?

Perhaps related, why do you need to be worth billions of dollars? I feel your visions for what you want your future self to be are highly unrealistic and you're probably setting yourself up for a lot of disappointment and unhappiness.

Sorry for the bluntness, but I think one could be happy on a lot less.

New comment by mykowebhn in "Some Unusual Trees"

mykowebhn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:58:02 +0000

I just learned about this.

Thanks for pointing this out!

New comment by mykowebhn in "Some Unusual Trees"

mykowebhn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:56:33 +0000

I had to verify so I just checked with Claude (I was lazy) and you are correct.

Thanks for pointing this out!

New comment by mykowebhn in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

mykowebhn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:00:58 +0000

To all future whistle-blowers: Please ignore comments like this one! What you are doing is a valuable service to society.

New comment by mykowebhn in "Some Unusual Trees"

mykowebhn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:24:21 +0000

True. Although in their native Australia they grew quite straight. It's the introduced trees that grow not so straight and make bad railroad ties.

In areas where they are introduced, they also become quite invasive by practicing something called alelopathy, whereby they introduce toxins into the soil to prevent competing tree species from taking hold.

While I'm at it, Eucalyptus trees have very very dense wood which means the wood burns very hot. This makes it even worse for forest fires where Eucalyptus trees dominate.

(I knew my botany studies would come in handy someday. I just never knew when!)

New comment by mykowebhn in "Some Unusual Trees"

mykowebhn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:40:00 +0000

I would say the Eucalyptus tree, planted all over the world but native to Australia, is quite unusual.

Young Eucalyptus trees have leaves that are rounded and are arranged opposite to one another. However, when mature the leaves of a Eucalyptus are lance-like and are arranged in an alternating fashion. This to me is quite unusual.

New comment by mykowebhn in "Pam Bondi ousted as Attorney General"

mykowebhn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:51:02 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by mykowebhn in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

mykowebhn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:03:52 +0000

Can you include references for the studies you mention?

> Trump notably had much smaller campaign budgets than his opponents in both winning elections

I'm not sure where you're getting this information.

> Fundamentally, it's presidential democracy that is flawed.

No disagreement

New comment by mykowebhn in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

mykowebhn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:49:33 +0000

That the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling may have been the single worst thing to happen to the US.

New comment by mykowebhn in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

mykowebhn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:28:38 +0000

This is a serious question. What does IBM, in fact, do? I'm surprised they are still around and apparently relevant. Are they more or less a services and consulting company now?