[HN Gopher] IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead
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IT tycoon Mike Lynch, daughter Hannah found dead
Author : croes
Score : 45 points
Date : 2024-08-21 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| foxyv wrote:
| Bayesian. If that isn't a cursed boat name... Bad luck!
| THBC wrote:
| M/S Local Minimum
| ryanmarsh wrote:
| "Coincidentally, Lynch's co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, who
| was also acquitted, died the day of the storm after being hit by
| a car on Saturday morning in Stretham, England."
|
| Coincidentally indeed.
|
| "Other missing individuals have been identified by The
| Independent as: Christopher Morvillo, a lawyer who had
| represented Lynch and wife Neda Morvillo; Jonathan Bloomer,
| chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International and wife
| Judy Bloomer."
|
| Oh.
| ignoramous wrote:
| The maker says the sailing boat was nearly unsinkable (why
| won't they?)
|
| There are 15 survivors including the Captain, so I doubt foul
| play. Given that _Waterspouts_ , even the seemingly innocuous
| ones, are tres powerful, it remains the most likely cause of
| Bayesian's tragedy.
|
| https://news.sky.com/story/sailing-yachts-like-mike-lynchs-a...
| / https://archive.md/JKNJ7
| jprd wrote:
| I mean, I really have to fight my brain from jumping into
| conspiracy theories at times. This is ABSOLUTELY one of them.
|
| Lot of other nasties running around without repercussions,
| but Karma/Simulation said nay to these cats. It is crazy hard
| to just shake off the coincidence at times.
| Nuzzerino wrote:
| Except the boat's keel was found to be raised, which is a
| suspicious red flag here.
| defen wrote:
| > Except the boat's keel was found to be raised
|
| Can you explain what that means? Like...I vaguely know what
| a keel is, but what does it mean for it to be raised? Who
| raises it, and how, or what could have caused it to be
| raised? What keel configuration would not have been a red
| flag?
| _whiteCaps_ wrote:
| Some (usually larger) boats can have movable keels -
| lifting or swing. It's usually controlled by hydraulics.
| If it's in rough weather you'd expect it to be fully
| extended to lower the centre of gravity.
|
| They're lifted when going into shallower areas.
| notatoad wrote:
| >There are 15 survivors including the Captain, so I doubt
| foul play.
|
| doesn't that make it even more suspicious? the boat goes
| down, most of the people on it survive, but the guy who
| ripped off HP and his banker and his lawyer all died.
|
| if you wanted to believe that the ship was sailed into a
| storm and the sinking was used as cover for a murder, it
| seems more plausible this way than if everybody on the ship
| had died. (to be clear, i don't really believe this is what
| happened. just trying to figure out why the captain surviving
| makes it less likely to be foul play)
| jongjong wrote:
| Maybe they saw the storm coming towards them and they
| panicked and committed suicide.
| cj wrote:
| It sounds a bit less like a conspiracy theory if you consider
| that the yacht trip was meant to celebrate winning the legal
| case. Which explains why key people involved in the legal case
| are missing... they were on the yacht. The only real
| coincidence is the land and sea accidents happening around the
| same time.
| tedunangst wrote:
| Who were you expecting to be on the yacht?
| _whiteCaps_ wrote:
| Entirely speculation here, but this is why I don't like lifting
| keel sailboats. I'm guessing that it was raised while at anchor
| which made it less stable.
| brk wrote:
| They were in 160' of water, not sure draft would have been a
| concern.
| hiatus wrote:
| Raising the keel would result in a change of the center of
| gravity of the ship.
| _huayra_ wrote:
| The only real sailworthiness advantage I know if is that if
| you're sailing with conditions big enough to make you surf (and
| downwind, i.e. not some weird situation where the wind and the
| waves are not coming from the same direction), being able to
| lift the keel helps avoid getting sideways and broaching from
| the wave trying to pick the boat "up and over the keel" in a
| sense. Granted, I've only personally verified this with many
| dinghies I've raced, but on a larger boat the dynamics might
| not be the same (I still don't have "big boat" money yet lol!).
| Mistletoe wrote:
| Photo of The Beyesian:
|
| https://megayachtnews.com/2024/08/yacht-bayesian-sinks-in-se...
|
| For those trying to find a conspiracy, it seems very improbable
| for anyone behind Chamberlain and Lynch's death other than the
| laws of probability. I know that HP isn't behind it because HP
| could never do something successfully.
| cozzyd wrote:
| I'm pretty sure the laws of probability are sunk here.
| lofaszvanitt wrote:
| Didn't the captain check the weather forecast or how did this
| happen? Maybe he was drunk, since everyone celebrated?
| glaucon wrote:
| I hope this isn't too far off track ...
|
| In 2011 HP paid $12B for his company and then claimed it wasn't
| worth that much, their write-down suggested they thought it was
| actually worth $4B.
|
| Wikipedia says Autonomy's tech was "[a] variety of enterprise
| search and knowledge management applications using adaptive
| pattern recognition techniques centered on Bayesian inference in
| conjunction with traditional methods"
|
| It sounds pretty niche for a company that isn't already big in
| search. Has anyone read what HP thought it could do with the tech
| to get a return ? I feel like there must have been some need that
| HP had which I'm unware of.
|
| I do appreciate that the reasons large corps do acquisitions, and
| how, are not always susceptible to reason but Oracle's market cap
| at the start of 2011 was $160B. What could have made Autonomy
| worth 7.5% of Oracle to HP ?
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