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Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee
- technifreak 14y agoThis is perfect. I have no words.
- pebb 14y agoAnyone know which anti-depressant he's on?
- monsterix 14y agoThat's a very poor way to comment, and even insulting to those who are genuinely suffering from mental illness. Down-voted. Besides that, the fact that you're able to put a comment here (your voice) or anywhere else is first credit to Sir Timbers Lee [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
- dholowiski 14y ago> That's a very poor way to comment, and even insulting to those who are genuinely suffering from mental illness. Seconded.
- dreeves 14y agoRepeating with typos fixed: Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurturers, carers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep. timbl (I'm heartbroken about Aaron Swartz. He had been helping Beeminder a lot and offered to be an advisor, to be formalized next time he was in Portland. He was a wonderful person.)
- Illychnosis 14y agoI never met Aaron but I admired his work and his spirit. I'm a little sad there's nothing on the front page of Reddit about Aaron yet.
- mmanfrin 14y agoIt was the top item 11 hours ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/16ffph/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_commits_suicide/ http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/16ffph/reddit_cofounde...
- jcomis 14y agoNot sure why, but the reddit admins keep deleting all posts related to this. edit: Seems that more are staying up now. This morning they were being deleted.
- SquareWheel 14y agoYou're going to have to give some evidence on that one. How do you know it's admins and not moderators? Admins rarely intervene in these sorts of matters, even if they are close to the story.
- drzaiusapelord 14y agoWell, /r/truereddit had something up with some decent commentary but it isn't a default reddit. /r/pics sadly is now the default for news like this and the signal to noise ratio there is as bad as you can imagine it to be. No Lessig, no nothing, just a bunch of guys calling him a criminal and a coward for suicide. Fuck you reddit. You are eternel september's child now. Lowest common denominator trash for the lowest common denominator. On the upside, I do have faith that once his story gets out of the eternal september kiddie's paws, the facts and deep moral issues here will percolate to the surface, eventually. It'll just take some time.
- mtrimpe 14y agoAmazingly enough the thread about his passing [1] has 34.340 upvotes and 31.742 downvotes. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16fjjm/aaron_shwartz_reddit_cofounder_rip/ http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16fjjm/aaron_shwartz_r...
- drzaiusapelord 14y ago
- jianxioy 14y agoVery eloquently put. RIP Aaron. .
- shellehs 14y agoVery sad to hear this, RIP Aaron.
- vicapow 14y agoI agree. Very eloquently put.
- edwardunknown 14y agoThat's a damn fine elegy.
- peripetylabs 14y agoThis is so incredibly sad. I did not know Aaron, but I will try to honour his memory. I've decided to stop hesitating and publish some of my research of the past couple years freely online. I hope others do too.
- jbwyme 14y agoThis response is touching, sad, but somehow beautiful as well: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0022.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0022.htm...
- rdtsc 14y agoThat made my eyes water.
- westicle 14y agoJust noticing the black "armband" worn by hn today. Many tributes for this impressive man.