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Thanks! I had completely forgotten about nickb!

• qohen 14y ago
  nickb...as in Nicholas Bourbaki, perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki Edit: someone else who thought about this (much) earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428
  • qohen 14y ago
    And this would seem to prove it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109 A guy named Roth wrote a post, that got posted to HN, about pg's essay on how to disagree. pg responds. Husafan starts a dialog with pg. There's a response back, clearly continuing the dialog, saying "I felt like I gave that aspect of his post the reply it deserved", referring to "my essay", etc. but instead of being posted under pg's handle, the response is posted by nickb. A little further down the thread, user ncart makes the connection: holy sh*t!!! nickb = pg ????