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Him on SoylentNews: https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford/journal/ https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford/journal/ Him on HackerNews, shadowbann

by tropo 8y ago

Him on SoylentNews: https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford/journal/ https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford/journal/ Him on HackerNews, shadowbanned it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelCrawford https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelCrawford How and where did he kill himself? (please copy from facebook if you can get at it there) He seems to have been a rather nice guy. Not even counting the suicide, he had a strong tendency to make hazardous life choices. He was really into music performance, preferring to earn money busking instead of programming. He didn't have a lot of self-control with money, to put it mildly.

orionblastar 8y ago
He was MikeCrawford here. I don't know how to search users This is his last Youtube Video and only one I know of: https://youtu.be/3dGTmjUXH0Q https://youtu.be/3dGTmjUXH0Q Weeks before his death. He did Busk to earn money because he couldn't find contracts and he rejected Google and Amazon because he considered companies like them evil. He had an Interview with Google but turned them down. He had a contract to build drivers for OSX aka MacOS but wasted his money on a Litecoin miner that didn't even pay for electricity. He claimed to live like a hermit but would often go to strip clubs and do hazardous things. His weakness was accounting even with GNUCash he just couldn't do it. He was supposed to report it to social security but missed the deadline and lost his Medicare insurance and his 'happy pills' that keep him from being suicidal. I myself am on disability and Medicare and looking to get off it as well. I got the details on his death from his Facebook user wall, there are people writing on it.
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- former_k5er 8y ago
  Huge bummer. Mike's golden years on K5 where everyone trolled him 24/7 about Haiku OS and he loved every second of it makes me smile. RIP in peace, Mikey.
orionblastar 8y ago
Read his wall: https://www.facebook.com/repeatiblehairstyle?sk=wall&fref=gs&dti=2315152128&hc_location=group_dialog https://www.facebook.com/repeatiblehairstyle?sk=wall&fref=gs... You might have to be a friend to see all of the messages. But it stated he took his own life after being physically ill.
- tropo 8y ago
  Yes, well, it is rather impossible to friend him at this point, not that I have a Facebook account anyway. That walled garden is rather unfriendly to those of us who dislike having Facebook analyze our lives. If you have the where/how/when, please do share.
  - soytakyon 8y ago
    I logged in with a fake throwaway account and was able to see the posts.

by tropo 8y ago

orionblastar 8y ago

He was MikeCrawford here. I don't know how to search users This is his last Youtube Video and only one I know of: https://youtu.be/3dGTmjUXH0Q https://youtu.be/3dGTmjUXH0Q Weeks before his death. He did Busk to earn money because he couldn't find contracts and he rejected Google and Amazon because he considered companies like them evil. He had an Interview with Google but turned them down. He had a contract to build drivers for OSX aka MacOS but wasted his money on a Litecoin miner that didn't even pay for electricity. He claimed to live like a hermit but would often go to strip clubs and do hazardous things. His weakness was accounting even with GNUCash he just couldn't do it. He was supposed to report it to social security but missed the deadline and lost his Medicare insurance and his 'happy pills' that keep him from being suicidal. I myself am on disability and Medicare and looking to get off it as well. I got the details on his death from his Facebook user wall, there are people writing on it.

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former_k5er 8y ago
Huge bummer. Mike's golden years on K5 where everyone trolled him 24/7 about Haiku OS and he loved every second of it makes me smile. RIP in peace, Mikey.

orionblastar 8y ago

Read his wall: https://www.facebook.com/repeatiblehairstyle?sk=wall&fref=gs&dti=2315152128&hc_location=group_dialog https://www.facebook.com/repeatiblehairstyle?sk=wall&fref=gs... You might have to be a friend to see all of the messages. But it stated he took his own life after being physically ill.

tropo 8y ago
Yes, well, it is rather impossible to friend him at this point, not that I have a Facebook account anyway. That walled garden is rather unfriendly to those of us who dislike having Facebook analyze our lives. If you have the where/how/when, please do share.
- soytakyon 8y ago
  I logged in with a fake throwaway account and was able to see the posts.