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Because whatever he says in a trial becomes public record and widely reported on.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but who cares what he says? He is just a crazy person who dodged taxes.
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There was a ruling today approving his extradition to the US. US officials were about to get him and he was facing extremely serious charges. That's a really important bit of context to keep in mind before jumping to ideas that some shadowy "they" had him killed.
I have hard time believing this, either that he died or his motive. Tax evasion has one of the most lenient punishments of white collar crimes.
Shouldn't that be a Catalan jail?
Come on! That is the first rule of brainwashing.
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> I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since. In America, we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. It's a shame it really only takes an accusation.
He was found guilty in civil court in Florida and forced to pay $25M; he never stood trial because he fled. Also, presumption of innocence applies to the law, not to HN comments.
We changed the URL from https://elpais.com/economia/2021-06-23/el-fundador-del-antiv... to the most neutral English-language article that was easy to Google.
Alternative examples here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57589822
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/23/john-mcafee-...
I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since. I mean, sure he built some antivirus software a few decades ago, but I don't think he deserves the eulogies he's getting here. He's not tech's Hunter S. Thompson; he's a murderer who spent the last years of his life screwing over people with crypto scams.
You are stating something as fact, something that happened in another country. You are so well informed you watched a documentary and read some news articles. He ran for US president in the last few races. How was he on the run.
From McAffee in 2019, "Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm. " https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...
https://web.archive.org/web/20201005231441/https://twitter.c...
I met John in an Atlanta airport lounge years ago[1]. I recognized him immediately as I've always admired him, and I decided to go up to him and tell him as much. He invited me to sit down, and told him about when I was a teenager in the 90s learning about tech entrepreneurs at the time, I always thought he was pretty cool and had good ideas. I told him I respected him, and that I was sure he'd lived an incredible li…
Your sketchy looking link which I mistakenly clicked on instead of copy and pasting into my VM is b0rk. Says "This item has exceeded its view limit!"
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Which poses the question - if you're absolutely sure you're not going to kill yourself, how could you make sure that everybody knows it and believes it? Is there a way?
Reliable (and potentially even publicly accessible) surveillance. Just livestream every moment of your life and keep logs in multiple locations.
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That was 2 years ago though. A lot in a person's life can change in just 2 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609346 He's also indicated much more recently that any "suicide" wouldn't be such.