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What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by analog31 »

astrange wrote: post #90
Bjorkbat wrote: post #66

I'm weirdly not too surprised due to this belief I have that software developers would make effective criminals. A lot of this boils down to a belief I have that not getting caught in the first place is easy. Murders have something like a 50% solve rate and you can decrease your chances of getting caught with a little knowledge on how to evade common forensic techniques along with some planning. Those who get caught…

More importantly, engineers are for some reason especially likely to be terrorists. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29836/1/Why_are_there_so_many_Engi... I think it's related to old physicist brain where you decide you know everything about everyone else's field. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

But not physicists (at least, scientists), according to the article.

Reminds me of the Salem Hypothesis.

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Bjorkbat wrote: post #66

I'm weirdly not too surprised due to this belief I have that software developers would make effective criminals. A lot of this boils down to a belief I have that not getting caught in the first place is easy. Murders have something like a 50% solve rate and you can decrease your chances of getting caught with a little knowledge on how to evade common forensic techniques along with some planning. Those who get caught…

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Post by Terr_ »

lawlessone wrote: post #144
lesuorac wrote: post #121

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I don't think that was the protagonist. [Spoiler below if anyone hasn't seen it] There was guy setup in a room who was pretending to be a pedo so that the protagonist would kill him and his family would get paid by the antagonist. The protagonist chooses not to kill him which also proves that it wasn't certain anyone else convicted by their psychic tech would have killed.

IIRC the person was being framed as a serial kidnapper/killer to explain a bunch of missing children, with no specific extra motive.

Anyway, here's a video clip of the fictional cops looking at the suspiciously full room of evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQCiLi_mHg

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Post by FooBarBizBazz »

roncesvalles wrote: post #83
JSDevOps wrote: post #80

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Since when did making small talk become "flirting"?

Since the Millennial generation, pretty much, at least among the (over-)educated. It kills me; I'd prefer to pretend we're all participating in some shared project called "civilization".

But, as the shooting in the street and the cheering on the Internet have shown (and the price gouging before that), our society has been coarsening along a great many dimensions.

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