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by aclimatt 2108 days ago
I'm trying to find the link but I remember reading an article on HN about how nigh impossible it is to fake your own death. Not sure if that was what the parent was talking about. Here's one I found:

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/inside-the-world-of-inve...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20862618

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There's a massive problem with false positive bias. If someone fakes their own death successfully, no one will ever know
For this reason it's always funny to me when people say "criminals are always caught in the end", "crime doesn't pay", etc. How would they know?