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I'm not sure if you've actually looked at the account, but it has a longer comment history than your own.
by yifanl 7y ago
I'm not sure if you've actually looked at the account, but it has a longer comment history than your own.
- growlist 7y agoAh, well perhaps a better name would help then.
- effingwewt 7y agoTo be fair how different is it from using a random name like 'growlist'? Since when does the handle someone uses to post correlate to the substance of said post?
- throwaway5752 7y agoI can't reply to your first reply, but you completely misread me, "it's easier and more likely to succeed to prevent global warming in the first place than it is to deal with the worst consequences" It is critical to human survival in the current and next generation to almost completely eliminate fossil fuel consumption, as well as mine and sequester vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. It will be easier and more likely to succeed to do that than create bio domes or extraterrestrial colonization.
- throwaway5752 7y agoAppreciate that. I started it as throwaway almost 7 years ago, but got attached. Can't change the name, and don't really care to at this point!
- dang 7y agoWe change account names for people all the time. Just email hn@ycombinator.com with the username you'd prefer.
- throwaway5752 7y agoThank you! Didn't know that was an option, and appreciate your reaching out. Would you prefer I change, to discourage throwaway usage?
- dang 7y agoIt's entirely up to you. If you'd like a different name, let us know. If you're attached to this one, carry on. The only thing we don't allow is trollish usernames, since they end up trolling every thread they post to. That includes special cases like using someone else's real name (we had a pseudo-Britney Spears the other day).
- throwaway5752 7y agoI'll hold onto it, but thank you for that and all you do here (including keeping us safe from the would-be pop idols dopplegangers of the world).