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Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by mothballed »

ortusdux wrote: post #28
javiramos wrote: post #12

Could this be related to the Brown shooting?

From ABC - "Authorities have investigated whether his death could be connected to this weekend's Brown University shooting and, at this point, a senior law enforcement official briefed on both cases told ABC News there is nothing to suggest they’re connected." https://abcnews.go.com/US/mit-professor-shot-killed-home-bos...

Authorities and the university have also been asking for tips but then flipping the script as soon as they get them: "Accusations, speculation and conspiracies we're seeing on social media and in some news reports are irresponsible, harmful, and in some cases dangerous."[]

Also worth noting... at one point the arrested the wrong guy.

They have no clue. And become hostile when people try to come up with one. While scrubbing student profiles and simultaneously claiming they have no knowledge of doing so. The whole thing is a total clown show and nothing said by the authorities is to be believed without independent verification.

[] Brown University spokesperson Brian Clark

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by [deleted] »

JuniperMesos wrote: post #75

My prediction is that it was a random home invasion robbery committed by someone with multiple previous felonies who had no idea that the person living in the house they were trying to rob was a MIT professor. But I have no more information than anyone else does, I'm making a low-confidence educated guess, and at some point in the near future it's very likely that the professionals whose job it is to investigate seri…

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Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by SauntSolaire »

willis936 wrote: post #76
refulgentis wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you from Boston / have you lived there? I do, and thank you for your concern. But this is confusing to say the least. 1. No one should be stupid enough to put their name and rep on the line, in a fluid situation, where there’s 0 idea who did the first anyways, for days now. 2. Dunno what you mean by academics, students and professors? Usually academics refers to professors / grad students / has a job at universit…

You are demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of trust. Aaron Katersky and Josh Margolin put their name on the line because without that you wouldn't know the provenance of the information and wouldn't know if you should trust it. Citing an unnamed officer making claims that they have insufficient evidence for is not good journalism, so their reputation takes a hit. The officer also deserves this reputational…

> using the same weapon

The same weapon being.. a gun? Hardly a notable connection.

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by jabbywocker »

willis936 wrote: post #76
refulgentis wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you from Boston / have you lived there? I do, and thank you for your concern. But this is confusing to say the least. 1. No one should be stupid enough to put their name and rep on the line, in a fluid situation, where there’s 0 idea who did the first anyways, for days now. 2. Dunno what you mean by academics, students and professors? Usually academics refers to professors / grad students / has a job at universit…

You are demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of trust. Aaron Katersky and Josh Margolin put their name on the line because without that you wouldn't know the provenance of the information and wouldn't know if you should trust it. Citing an unnamed officer making claims that they have insufficient evidence for is not good journalism, so their reputation takes a hit. The officer also deserves this reputational…

You aren’t refuting a negative because the statement isn’t “they are unrelated” the statement is “(with current information) there is nothing suggesting they are related”

If you’re close to the situation, and have a substantiated reason to believe the claim that there’s no current information suggesting they’re related is inaccurate, you should be able to back that up. Except we both know you can’t, because you’re attempting to refute something that wasn’t actually said.

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by Supermancho »

wat10000 wrote: post #80
mothballed wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a reasonable guess, but 8:30p seems like a dumb time for a home robbery. Usually they're committed during the day when people are at work, and if not that then deep in the night for maximum cover. 8:30 is almost like the ideal time if you actually want someone to be there and answer the door at an hour where it wouldn't cause enough alarm for them to answer the door with a weapon.

When it comes to small-scale crime like this, the smartest thing is typically not to do it at all. So the people who do it will generally not be very smart.

Indeed, 8:30p is no different from 2p or 10a for the act.

It's most likely a matter of happenstance. It happened to be the warmest time of the day (even though it was evening). Maybe the thinking was someone was home to help them find the valuables, maybe not.

> 8:30p seems like a dumb time for a home robbery.

The assertion that there is some optimization for some specific imagined motivation, is literal fantasy.

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by kazinator »

> Correction 16 December: An earlier version of this story incorrectly defined the kind of plasma that Professor Loureiro researched.

If I get shot and someone writes some libelous bullshit about how I worked with hygienic macro systems, someone kindly jump on that shit ASAP. Thanks in advance!

Re: MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

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Post by OutOfHere »

dmoy wrote: post #77
OutOfHere wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By your logic, anything that satisfies Occam's razor is lazy stereotyping. And that doesn't make the idea unlikely anyway.

Finals not being over might make the idea unlikely

They started yesterday. A student who is going to outright fail it will likely know immediately before the results are in.
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