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I don’t know the industry but it seems to me that if the “trash” was bought by Chinese companies only to be dumped there for the most part then it’s still trash

by czps 8y ago

I don’t know the industry but it seems to me that if the “trash” was bought by Chinese companies only to be dumped there for the most part then it’s still trash. Was it cheaper to ship this stuff to China than to pay American landfills to handle this stuff? I don’t think having someone pay for it matters. Isn’t it the end result that matters?

dang 8y ago
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There are legit uses for throwaways, just not routinely. Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- czps 8y ago
  Generally when I reach a certain number of points I destroy the account by changing the password to something that I can’t remember and I don’t use an email address with my accounts. There is no delete option that I’m aware of. I’ve been on the site for a long time. Since the beginning. I didn’t know you guys kept track of MAC addresses or however else you track this stuff. I won’t do it again. This is the push I’ve needed to stop coming to the site. Thanks. I mean it.
  - kenrose 8y ago
    I think you mean IP addresses. :-)
    - username3 8y ago
      IP addresses change.
      - hombre_fatal 8y ago
        You only need an IP address overlap one time to link two accounts. It's pretty much guaranteed to happen if you aren't actively avoiding it. But let's revisit the fact that remote servers cannot see a MAC address.
        username3 8y ago
        Public WiFi share IP addresses. >I didn’t know you guys kept track of MAC addresses or however else you track this stuff. Revisit however else.
        BearsAreCool 8y ago
        If I remember correctly IE used to have a way to view mac addresses through javascript.
  - ineedasername 8y ago
    >This is the push I’ve needed to stop coming to the site. Thanks. I mean it. Welcome! Always nice to see the trollishly inclined see themselves out.
  - dajohnson89 8y ago
    Why didn't you just use a single account?
- mehrdadn 8y ago
  > Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There's an interesting middle ground here which is to let users specify whatever username nobody else has ever used for their posts. Then they can choose to link them to prior posts (or not) as they see fit. It's not clear to me that this prevents having a community, but I'm not sure what the consequences are.

by czps 8y ago

dang 8y ago

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There are legit uses for throwaways, just not routinely. Lots more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20community%20identity https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

czps 8y ago
Generally when I reach a certain number of points I destroy the account by changing the password to something that I can’t remember and I don’t use an email address with my accounts. There is no delete option that I’m aware of. I’ve been on the site for a long time. Since the beginning. I didn’t know you guys kept track of MAC addresses or however else you track this stuff. I won’t do it again. This is the push I’ve needed to stop coming to the site. Thanks. I mean it.
- kenrose 8y ago
  I think you mean IP addresses. :-)
  - username3 8y ago
    IP addresses change.
    - hombre_fatal 8y ago
      You only need an IP address overlap one time to link two accounts. It's pretty much guaranteed to happen if you aren't actively avoiding it. But let's revisit the fact that remote servers cannot see a MAC address.
      - username3 8y ago
        Public WiFi share IP addresses. >I didn’t know you guys kept track of MAC addresses or however else you track this stuff. Revisit however else.
      - BearsAreCool 8y ago
        If I remember correctly IE used to have a way to view mac addresses through javascript.
- ineedasername 8y ago
  >This is the push I’ve needed to stop coming to the site. Thanks. I mean it. Welcome! Always nice to see the trollishly inclined see themselves out.
- dajohnson89 8y ago
  Why didn't you just use a single account?
mehrdadn 8y ago
> Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. There's an interesting middle ground here which is to let users specify whatever username nobody else has ever used for their posts. Then they can choose to link them to prior posts (or not) as they see fit. It's not clear to me that this prevents having a community, but I'm not sure what the consequences are.