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Sounds like a textbook case of what can happen if you take a very bright person and then give them a sudden windfall of success. That is, derangement. He or she doesn't stop being smart and even charismatic and so on.
One question always is: what's the next act? No next act and the propensity to derangement goes up.
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I mean, he very likely killed his neighbor in 2012... so I feel like "colorful" undermines how much of a monster he's been for over a decade.
If you are rich enough you are eccentric and colorful.
He clearly lost his mind at some point. Late John McAfee != early John McAfee. Heavy drug abuse and alcoholism looks to have played a role. Giving tons of money to a chronic addict (like he got when he cashed out of his company) can be a death sentence.
Can someone explain why McAfee had decamped to Belize in the first place and started a life on the lam? Wikipedia is surprisingly sparse here. Edit - in 2012 he was the prime suspect to the killing of his neighbor as mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609243
Drugs.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/09/the-obscure-legal-dr...
Never followed his story but the translated article on NyPost only mentions his cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme. Which naturally leads me to the question, why was McAffee pursued for this all the way to Europe but Elon Musk isn't even investigated while millions watched him do the same? I am not loading this politically at all. I am not from the US and I am mostly apathetic to celebrities. But I am genuinely curi…
He also said he would eat is own anatomy regarding bitcoin price.. I guess this bet is gonna happen in another dimension.
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.
> 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.
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It is indeed an alternative possiblity, but the possiblity that he was murdered should not be discounted. Murdering those that challenge authority has been happening since the dawn of history and nothing has fundamentally changed. Well other than needing to make it look like a suicide since modern society likes to believe it's enlightened.
McAfee was an obviously unhinged lunatic peddling fringe nonsense. You can make an argument that cryptocurrency poses a threat to the state, but a 75 year old man who spends 16 hours a day rambling on twitter about fringe stuff does not. The available evidence points strongly to a deeply mentally ill guy facing life in prison and killing himself.
Are we still talking about McAfee here? I am coveted.
Even though he lived a cuestionable life. He was a free man until the end. I respect him for that.
> He was a free man until the end. He literally died in jail.
I choose to remember him like this: "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" => https://youtu.be/bKgf5PaBzyg
"But the strangest part of knowing McAfee was the time he wanted me to help start an AIDS-free sex club. I still remember how excited he was about his new, brilliant idea. Membership required a fee and an AIDS test. If the test came back negative, you were given a membership card, which you could then take to organized member parties, have lots of casual sex, and not worry about catching the virus." - My adventures w…
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I mean, he very likely killed his neighbor in 2012... so I feel like "colorful" undermines how much of a monster he's been for over a decade.
You're saying "likely" as a hedge, when in fact you are instead merely expressing an opinion, without any knowledge of the actual numerical likelihood of such an event having happened.