It's not a death threat, you're just unfamiliar with 90s hip-hop (news.ycombinator.com)

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Possibly the worst defense yet of Garry Tan's tweeting of death threats towards San Francisco's elected legislature. In yet more evidence for my "HN is a Nazi bar" thesis, this take is from an otherwise-respected cryptographer and security researcher. Choice quote:

sorry, but 2Pac is now dad music, I don't make the rules

Best sneer so far is this comment, which links to this Key & Peele sketch about violent rap lyrics in the context of gang violence.

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[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 9 months ago

(that same cryptographer person got in fits when people started mentioning scott alexander siskind's name publicly on twitter, and went on block spree while making noises about doxxing.)

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