On: Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit ...

[berkes → 2OEH8eoCRo0]

Why wouldn't it be?

[2OEH8eoCRo0 → berkes]

They had influenza and MRSA and developed pneumonia. It would be news if they survived.

[cft → 2OEH8eoCRo0]

Because it's the second [1] Boeing whistleblower that died within 2 months. The chance to die from all causes at the age of 45 is 0.41% [2]. The first whistleblower died at 62. The chance to die from all causes is 1.6% at this age.

1. https://archive.ph/2024.03.13-031502/https://www.seattletime...

2. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

[tomrod → cft]

Now what are the chances that both died? If independent, very tiny. 1.6% * 0.41% = 0.00656%.

I think your initial percents are cumulative, but seem low, or annual, but seem on the higher side. Wasn't sure.

The chance of both them dying with an ongoing investigation, if not beset by medical issues (like this person) is pretty low.

[2OEH8eoCRo0 → cft]

Let's be real- it's here because it fuels speculation and conspiracy.

[cft → 2OEH8eoCRo0]

"Let's " is that an imperative now?

[psychlops → 2OEH8eoCRo0]

It is news, just not hacker news. Flag it and move on.

[jajko → psychlops]

HN allows any interesting topic, world doesn't revolve around 'hackers'

[psychlops → jajko]

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[piva00 → psychlops]

Since you are on the guidelines you should probably take note of this one:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

[WithinReason → psychlops]

This is neither of those, therefore it is on topic. QED.