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This is my throwaway Hacker News account named after the relevant director at Tesla:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbannon

I'm sorry you found this so confusing.

It's not just confusing but unethical. The confusion serves to put words in another person's mouth. It is a kind of impersonation. Please retire this account.

Well, as I said, it's a throwaway account, i.e., created for a single comment tree.

I won't be using it again (because it's a throwaway account) but not because I want to protect Peter Bannon.

Also, I disagree that it's unethical. Obviously you can't infer who's talking simply from the name of a Hacker News account. For example, if my account name was ElonMusk123, it would be naive to assume I was Elon Musk.

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