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Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home. But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with show…

there is so much systemic failure and it says a lot about the people who are elevated by society and the people who are demonized.

I agree 100%. The biggest example here is if you read and go back to the threads of HN before the downfalls of SBF and Liz Holmes, you'll see so many people on here worshipping them and apologists for their bad behavior. Most are corporate types are conformists who buy what they are told ('till the narrative are changed). It used to bother me but nowadays I just keep it pushing and aim for the tails and let the mid-curve people be the mid-curve people.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Lazlo Hollyfield. Life imitates art.

We'll have to wait to see how the Brown student's life turns out after. We'll see if he drives a way in an RV. Doubtful he'll be living in the basement after this though

I think Christina Paxson should hire him to be a director of patrol or more realistically a community liason for Brown campus police. The RI/FBI circus were all mum on whether the guy will receive the 50K reward - very on-brand. He wants privacy so I don't know even if there will be a GoFundMe but I think they should do the right thing and give the guy his 50 grand at the very least.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Worth noting that a partner at Sequoia (Shaun Maguire) publicly accused the wrong guy of being the shooter. https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-b...

The whole VC industry is poison at this point.

It's like a lottery for rich people.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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I live in the area. Crazy how many helicopters and drones showed up so quick and how many police there were. For several hours more and more police and FBI vehicles kept arriving. Probably ended up with close to 100 officers on scene. Salem NH PD, Methuen MA PD, Providence RI PD, NH state police, MA state police, FBI, and US Marshal service were the ones I saw. I think it's the biggest response I've personally seen s…

Every agency has to show how relevant they are.

Like the song 99 red balloons:

>Everyone's a superhero

>Everyone's a "Captain Kirk"

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Was it helpful? The man committed two shootings and they caught him after he committed suicide. It didn't prevent a crime.

It connected the two incidents per license plate readings per the article. Why do you think it wasn’t?

My question is how many other license plates also would have been connected this way? What's the false positive rate?

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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It connected the two incidents per license plate readings per the article. Why do you think it wasn’t?

My question is how many other license plates also would have been connected this way? What's the false positive rate?

Why is that relevant for this case?

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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My question is how many other license plates also would have been connected this way? What's the false positive rate?

Why is that relevant for this case?

If there's any claim that "flock found these two plates were seen in both areas!!111" then how many other plates were seen in both areas in the same timeframe? How much of this is throwing away results that disagree with the narrative?

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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> John posted about the encounter on Reddit after the shooting Anyone have the Reddit link? (I wonder why the article doesn't include it)

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/1pnkwoq/comment...

https://old.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/1pnkwoq/fbi_pos...
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