NicholasGurr

-16 karma · joined December 30, 2024

NicholasGurr··on My takeaways from 12 months of therapy

My purpose would remain unchanged. What you’re asking is almost the same as asking, “If a person exists who is better (smarter, stronger, more attractive) than you, what point is there in existing?” Because I experience life subjectively and would prefer to continue doing that.

NicholasGurr··on uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension

See also: you wouldn’t download a pizza.

NicholasGurr··on Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting

I found Klaus Schwab’s HN burner account!

> let’s modify peoples’ genes and make them eat bugs

NicholasGurr··on Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting

A lot of the contradictory nonsense was simply a result of the election year. As such, cynical people in power were aware they could make recommendations that would be unhelpful to the incumbent president’s re-election. Low economic activity AND civil unrest were both great factors for getting Trump out.

NicholasGurr··on Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting

It’s funny because a few of the comments are fairly tame and completely apolitical, but they get flagged anyway because someone reads, “I still want to know what the science is on masks…” and interprets that as “fuck masks!!!”

NicholasGurr··on ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

Here, let me answer that for you:

No.

NicholasGurr··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia

4chan echo chamber shit. I’d guess more than half of it starts as trolling, but some people run with it. Same way QAnon became a thing.

NicholasGurr··on Tell HN: Happy New Year HN

Agreed. Happy New Year!

- Dr. Nick Gurr