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According to this[0] the HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. [0] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/25559-hypervm-boss-hangs-him

• blazespin 13y ago
  oh, well, that's alright then.
• napoleond 13y ago
  I'm having trouble understanding what you think the relevance of that might be. Obviously, when someone commits suicide, that decision ultimately rests on their shoulders and is borne of their experience/history/state/what-have-you. GP was trying to make a broader point about the difference in levels of significance between a catastrophic business fuck-up and the wasting of human life, a conflation that people without family histories of suicide make all the time.
  • kyrra 13y ago
    On the general point my original parent was trying to make, I totally agree. People throwing away their lives over a business fuck-up is a waste. I just wanted to search on the story and saw that point was made in the article I linked, and thought it was an interesting point to that specific case.
• pekru 13y ago
  > HyperVM guy may have had a family history of suicide. Seems so. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/ But more than that, in his own words, he was a "man of excesses." Here is his archived blog (http://echoreply.us/ligesh.com/ligesh.com/about/index.html http://echoreply.us/ligesh.com/ligesh.com/about/index.html)