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As cynical as it might seem, there is an alternative possibility: in spite of getting a tattoo saying he would not kill himself, and in spite of posting a tweet saying he would not kill himself, he went ahead and killed himself.
He could have killed himself anyway--- that is obvious , but his past statements still need to be taken seriously, and extra care and doubt need to be applied to the reported story.
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#313I remember that time, maybe 5-7 years ago, when he had a car chase with the police, followed by a little shootout. After the police apprehended him, he claimed he had mistaken them for his ex-wife, and also that he was on Xanax (and who knows what else). One of a kind, that's for sure.
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IMDB[0] for those wondering. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6071534/
The existence itself of that movie demonstrates that many parties had it in for him.
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He’s a murderer and fraudster. You do not in fact have to applaud him for anything.
and allegedly a rapist
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Because (according to the allegations) McAfee didn't pay the tax man.
Neither do Musk, Bezos, Soros etc. They just manage to get away with it. I guess McAfee was just not rich enough and didn't have the right tax attorney.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you ever get the impression from him that he was "holding back"?
To my knowledge he never posted something like "I really did kill that guy." He may have still had secrets even though his online life was so loud.
It also makes little sense that the US government would kill him before extradition and not after when they have a lot more control over narrative and investigations. Killing him on foreign soil makes everything needlessly harder for the US.
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#319He 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.
I don't think he lost his mind, but rather decided that it was more fun to seek attention than credibility.
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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!"
You run a VM just to inspect "sketchy-looking links"? That sounds like paranoid behavior, if I'm being honest.
Or maybe people just have temp VMs running anyway, and like others have said, if you’re browsing hacker news on your work machine you should probably do so with a healthy dose of paranoia.