John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:48 PM UTC

gizdan wrote: post #489

rcurry wrote: post #470

The sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks. I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he’s obviously unstable, has major problems with drug and alcohol addiction and all they can do is try to bring him even lower. Poor guy had major problems even before the “heroes” of the FBI or the IRS or whatever started screwing with him. Let the poor guy ride off into t…

> I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he's obviously unstable This is ridiculous. Okay so let's leave all the rich people alone who claim they are unstable. McAfee made millions, from what I understand, he paid little taxes on that. That's stupid. I don't care how unstable you are, or how good you are donating your "fair share". You're still not excused from paying your taxes.

Post by jmcgough » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:49 PM UTC

api wrote: post #225

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.

Post by xtracto » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:51 PM UTC

babypuncher wrote: post #361

jmkni wrote: post #290

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> People aren't automatically innocent in the eyes of the public just because they successfully avoid seeing a trial for nearly a decade by fleeing the country they are wanted in It's weird how many on HN have this attitude to McAfee, but not to Assange.

That is strange, I always saw both figures as being popular among the *ahem* politicized conspiracy theorist crowd that has become so prevalent online in the last 5-6 years.

Post by twelve40 » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

nonce42 wrote: post #409

sva_ wrote: post #23

What a strange life he lived. I'm not going to make a value judgement about whether or not he was a 'good' person, but I do applaud the fact that he dared to deviate from the norm. "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -- Hunter S Thompson RIP

I came across a Wired article on McAfee from 2012 describing his life in Belize, and it's quite a story. Starting an antibiotic lab, hiring armed guards with automatic weapons, trying to clean up drug crime in a small town, sleeping with 17-year-olds (one of which tried to kill him), pointing a loaded gun to his own head, getting raided by the police and jailed, lots of paranoia, and that's just the highlights. It's…

Post by Barrin92 » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

toast42 wrote: post #333

Barrin92 wrote: post #141

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did they actually dump their bitcoin? If yes I'd agree that it deserves attention but I don't think that's the case. Probably for that reason Elon actually posted in May or whatever that they have not sold their coins. Unless you can show that he actually mislead users for financial gain I don't think you're going to get authorities involved.

https://www.coindesk.com/tesla-sold-bitcoin-in-q1-for-procee... This was very easy to find, and makes me question your position that you weren't aware of it.