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Re:Terry Davis has died by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:58PM (#17912743)
This was previously submitted[0] and deemed "unconfirmed". Does it showing up on the TempleOS page make it any more official? Who runs the website in his absence to make this update?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17889547

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Re:Terry Davis has died by leibwiht on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:01PM (#17912767)
There is additional proof, from his sister's Facebook page, but I'm not sure I want to link it here because it seems rude to link his family's pages to random people. Is there a moderator here whose email address I can message with the proof?
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Re:Terry Davis has died by DoreenMichele on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:04PM (#17912792)
You can email the mods at [email protected].

Though Wikipedia already has such a link confirming it. I don't think you need to prove it.

Edit: Or did. I can't find it now. I was sure there was a really short page for him on Wikipedia when I looked the other day. At the moment, he only appears on their disambiguation page without a page of his own. It also shows a death year of 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Davis

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Re:Terry Davis has died by tazard on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:51PM (#17914515)
Odd, I thought I remembered reading it about two days ago too...
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Re:Terry Davis has died by jacquesm on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:03PM (#17912781)
[email protected]
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Re:Terry Davis has died by chris_wot on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:03PM (#17913236)
FWIW, I was always impressed how you looked out for Terry on HN.
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Re:Terry Davis has died by jacquesm on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:29PM (#17913416)
It's a pity we never could be inclusive enough to take someone in who clearly needed a bit of support. Terry definitely was a troubled person, there is zero doubt about that but if you looked past the sillyness (which I understand is hard in an environment that puts great value on political correctness) he was a really nice guy with some surprising quirks and a good sense of humor. On off days he was not so nice. Nobody's perfect.
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Re:Terry Davis has died by forapurpose on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @06:11AM (#17916549)
> which I understand is hard in an environment that puts great value on political correctness

Taking a shot at people with whom you disagree undermines your message. What might have been thoughtful is now a diatribe based on a stereotype.

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Re:Terry Davis has died by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:04PM (#17912793)
Try [email protected], it's actively monitored by the moderators.
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Re:Terry Davis has died by rckclmbr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:18PM (#17912901)
Maybe this will live on as a "Terry's death was never confirmed" (Andy Kaufman style). Would be a pretty cool way to memorialize him. Not sure if that would affect his family negatively though.
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Re:Terry Davis has died by icedchai on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:08PM (#17912819)
His Facebook page shows his account is memorialized.

(I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to log in to FB and search for his name.)

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Re:Terry Davis has died by dewey on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:10PM (#17912839)
That page is potentially a fake: https://www.reddit.com/r/TempleOS_Official/comments/9c63qr/t...
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Re:Terry Davis has died by basic1 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:08PM (#17912820)
It's still strange, doesn't the death rumor predate the website being updated?
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Re:Terry Davis has died by sp332 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:23PM (#17912938)
I might have misunderstood you, but presumably he didn't update the website with his own death date.
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