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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by tempsy »

polycaster wrote: post #66
tempsy wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could it not be professional? What would it be otherwise? The other clue is from the articles I've read is that there was no blood. No average person with a bone saw is going to be able to pull that off. Sorry.

> What would it be otherwise? A guy with a plan and a regular job?

I don’t know why you think it’s less conspiratorial to believe this was just a regular joe vs a professional hit man. He had an electric saw and empty suitcase. left no blood and few clues.

didn’t take anything from the apartment either.

a regular joe who wanted to do this would’ve just shot him.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by jjj123 »

stwrong wrote: post #47
dubcanada wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess that depends if you meant murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo or in a sewer. The latter happens all the time and is ignored. But a poor person being murdered inside a $2.4 million dollar condo in the same fashion is certainly newsworthy.

Who is getting cut up into a million pieces and dumped into the sewers? How common is such an occurrence?

There was (is?) a serial killer in LA killing homeless people with a bat in 2018/19 that got barely any news coverage.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by tootie »

opencl wrote: post #22
jeffbee wrote: post #5

The focus on the cost of the victim’s dwelling is so weird. I hope when they find my body they don’t waste half the article projecting local housing policy onto me, as if it were my fault.

Poor people get murdered all the time, a rich person getting murdered is newsworthy.

This is NYC. A $2M condo is not that special.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by vmception »

filleduchaos wrote: post #18
adenozine wrote: post #6

How horrible. Why would someone do this? I'd never heard of Gokada, it looks like such a cool thing for a developing country. I wonder what the motivation was. It doesn't seem like a market where there'd be the political pressure to assassinate someone. Maybe if there was someone trying to rethink the way pharmaceuticals or something, I could understand a CEO getting chopped into pieces by some shadowy figure, but ri…

It's worth noting that there was a sudden & pretty draconian regulation passed early this year that gutted Gokada's primary business (ridesharing on motorbikes). He was very passionate in his disagreement with the government's decision. The company pivoted pretty neatly (in my opinion) to last-mile deliveries instead - the pandemic certainly helped drive demand - but currently there's morbid speculation that potentia…

Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards.

Just as much as this financial or business hitman speculation.

Its all happened in NYC. Chopped up into bags sounds like cartel or organized, it happened to OneCoin promoters in Mexico this month too. But we dont know yet for this case.

The chance is part of the rush.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by intro-b »

rshnotsecure wrote: post #65
tzone wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Credit Karma being a Foreign Data Collection scheme makes no sense. They are in the process of being acquired by Intuit, unless you think that Intuit is also tied to Foreign countries too, which would make even less sense. Just because one of the founders happens to be of Chinese descent does not automatically make a company a foreign spying tool.

That is an unfair accusation and I never mentioned his ethnicity. Please read this article and then come back to me. I promise I will respond. It would be a terrible show of faith for you not too: https://blog.12security.com/two-minutes-to-midnight/

What? You're literally using the LinkedIn profiles out of a hand-selected cohort of engineers who happen to be from Chinese universities as strong evidence of a company being part of your conspiracy. Is every F500 American company that hires engineers from those universities compromised? I attended a CS graduate program that takes in research grants from DARPA and other American institutions — if I work for a non-U.S. based company, should I be accused of spying?

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by stanfordkid »

What a tragedy. If this has ties to any foreign business or government entity, I truly hope that the U.S government and military forces take swift and lethal action.

Sometimes I feel like this is the sort of thing where the justice system and public media just don't work... send some SEALS to knock out whoever did this. It reminds me of the type of thing that happens with central american drug lords.

I wish the article talked about such political issues instead of the weird sort of implied schadenfreude with regards to his material possessions and postings on instagram.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by AlexandrB »

ak39 wrote: post #50

Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?

Have you seen The Act of Killing[1]?

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by jedimind »

1zael wrote: post #23

This may be socio-politically related. Extremists from Bangladesh (his original country) are known to use hacking and dismemberment as a terror tactic.

YCombinator rules: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for. "

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by paulgb »

misiti3780 wrote: post #71
jeffbee wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to whom? In this neighborhood in the last year 9 properties sold for over $2.5m and 8 sold for under, meaning $2.4m is below the median value of the area. Why didn't they just say "Dismembered man found in Greenwich Village apartment"? Edit: The article keeps changing, it originally said 200 W Houston, now it says both 200 East Houston and 365 E. Houston. Edit #2: In a standing proof that local journalism i…

i live on the block, it's the building on the corner of suffolk st and east houston, left hand side facing north.

Yes, I think the article has the wrong address. That building is 265 not 365 (which I don't think exists?) I am also in the neighborhood (hi neighbor!) and saw police activity there this morning.
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