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Why not? We can't criticize someone's reckless, selfish decision, even ten years past their death from it?

Very funny.

It's hilarious

Pretty funny.

> Not funny.

I don't think the parent comment intended it to be funny, is sounds like a tongue in cheek criticism of an ethically suspect problem.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. I was criticizing him, while also using humor in the process. That is, given that they'll change titles while you're on leave [1], these are funny-but-fitting titles they could have given him.

Plus, the extra joke of framing his "exploitation of the organ system's rules" as "pentesting", since "well, he found ways that a rich person could jump the queue...".

My earlier comment on this kind of "insight framed as a joke" (interestingly enough, also in the context of Apple): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506073

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30286126

Neither is denying treatment for a curable disease.