As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling

Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by czps on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:58PM (#19410936)

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?

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by dang on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:20PM (#19411051)

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.

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=comme...

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by mehrdadn on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:27PM (#19411837)

> 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.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by czps on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:30PM (#19411098)

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.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by kenrose on Saturday March 16, 2019 @07:44PM (#19411162)

I think you mean IP addresses. :-)

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by username3 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:19PM (#19411547)

IP addresses change.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by hombre_fatal on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:30PM (#19411594)

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.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by BearsAreCool on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:00PM (#19411951)

If I remember correctly IE used to have a way to view mac addresses through javascript.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by username3 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:50PM (#19411672)

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.

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Re:As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling by dajohnson89 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @11:54PM (#19412128)

Why didn't you just use a single account?

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