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- ghyuhg 2y agoA smart person like that would now it would have been a matter of days until they were caught. It's just too high profile, everybody would be on the case, all the experts in everything.
- Miner49er 2y agoHe actually flirted with an employee at the hostel he stayed at, probably days before the murder. But yeah, the rest seems about right.
- roncesvalles 2y agoSince when did making small talk become "flirting"?
- delecti 2y agoAs I've heard it, it was characterized as flirting by the employee.
- throwaway48476 2y agoFiltered through the police and then through the media. It's a game of Chinese telephone and a lot gets lost in the translations, which leads to a huge amount of misinformation. Case in point b and t 9.
- soperj 2y agoSince when is it "chinese telephone" and not just "telephone"?
- throwaway48476 2y agoPick a common language in a different language family that results stilted translations. It was always Chinese telephone.
- hinoki 2y agoIt’s a mixture of Chinese Whispers and Telephone, two names for the same game.
- plasma_beam 2y agoI agree. The media seemed to have jumped on the flirting angle because he was smiling. Isn’t that a little insulting to the hostel employee? I smiled at my barber today. Definitely wasn’t flirting.
- coldtea 2y ago>Isn’t that a little insulting to the hostel employee? Why would that be "insulting"? HE was supposed to be flirting, not necessarily her. Plus, even if both were flirting, there's nothing insulting about that.
- plasma_beam 2y agoIf I am the employee, I don’t want my employer to think I’m flirting with customers when it’s just small talk. And..uhh..if I’m married, etc. Anyways, we don’t know for sure either way
- FooBarBizBazz 2y agoSince 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.
- blast 2y agoSome criminals want to get caught.
- cj 2y agoOr push their luck to the limit because they think they’re invincible. To be fair I was losing confidence they’d ever find him until today.
- jethro_tell 2y agolol, those videos of the NYPD ‘searching’ Central Park look like my kids looking for a homework assignment they don’t want to turn in. Until the FBI got involved I thought he was pretty much off the hook.
- HPsquared 2y agoProbably a kind of "boundary-pushing" personality type.
- bawolff 2y agoSometimes people do crime to be famous, this pattern would fit that.
- astrange 2y agoYes, he's not acting rationally because he's having a mental health crisis. If you look at his Twitter account, he disappeared a few months ago and all the replies were friends asking where he went. (Also, he's a tpot poster, which is a kind of tech bro that likes tweeting about how great it is to do psychedelic drugs. This is bad for your mental health!)
- bearincar 2y agoahhh mental health humans have figured out how to read and rewrite neural pathways
- cariaso 2y agoNit https://github.com/lnmangione https://github.com/lnmangione ...."Active" GitHub?
- wslh 2y agoThe Unabomber case was more complex to track [1]. I'm not suggesting it was because he had a higher IQ, as someone with an average IQ could have executed similar actions successfully. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
- jethro_tell 2y agoIt was also in a time where not everything got recorded. You have to think that having cameras everywhere and much more complex package tracking systems like we do now would have made staying hidden quite a bit harder.
- danso 2y agoHe took his mask off at the hostel, the kind of place that often requires its employees to verify that a photo ID matches the holder’s face. “Let me see you smile” is a common thing that service employees learn to say to get strangers to take off their masks without angering them
- throwaway48476 2y agoExactly. I don't think anyone in the media commenting on this ever worked in the service industry and therefore doesn't understand the obvious.
- carabiner 2y agoEver seen white lotus season 2? Stanford grad falls for a prostitute. Italians cannot resist.
- bearincar 2y ago[flagged]
- swesour 2y agoWhy is this comment so similar to this tweet: https://x.com/peruvian_bull/status/1866213955687022656 https://x.com/peruvian_bull/status/1866213955687022656 Are you a bot?
- sccomps 2y agocould be the same person?
- dnissley 2y agoProbably not a bot. Just reposting content from twitter over here. It's quite entertaining though that this particular conspiracy theory is catnip to HN users. Perhaps it's for the same reason it's blowing up on twitter: vague enough to capture the imaginations of people who might be imagining wildly different concrete scenarios?
- dang 2y agoYeah, we can't have people doing this kind of thing, so I've banned the account, at least until we have some reason to believe it won't happen again.
- eddsolves 2y agoWhere’d you get that IQ? His GitHub isn’t active either.
- radicalbyte 2y agoHe went to a selective school.... but 130 isn't particularly high. It's common in engineers.
- 535188B17C93743 2y agoIt's in the 98th percentile, lol. Yes, it's very high.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoHigh, but not particularly rare. IF you see a movie, there are probably several people >130 in the audience with you. When you filter by education and other factors, it goes up quickly. Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.
- radicalbyte 2y agoVery few people understand this. It's why it's very hard to understand how normal people think wrt politics.
- coldtea 2y agoWhile "normal people" often have crude political opinions, the stupidest political takes often (usually?) come from high IQ, well educated, people. And among those are also the ones with real influence and power to promote and/or enforce them.
- emptiestplace 2y ago> Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130. This seems pretty reasonable, but once you start to get to know people a bit...
- PleasureBot 2y agoPutting on my tinfoil hat for this: It sounds like parallel construction to me. I wonder if the FBI doesn't want it to get out what kind of technology the US government can use to track citizens in real time. Something like 24/7 facial recognition running in major chains like McDonalds. The police showing up for a random tip in the boonies in PA fast enough to actually catch the guy at McDonalds and he just happens to have method and motive on him 5 days later seems too convenient. I think they ultimately got the right guy, but I don't think the 'tip' was a phone call from a McDonald's employee.
- bilbo0s 2y agoI don't think they should tell people exactly how much tech they have. Why give people intelligence briefs on your capabilities? The point is to catch criminals and terrorists. If those criminals and terrorists believe that Palantir or whatever is the most they need to worry about, then society has the advantage.
- bbqfog 2y agoThe point is to define who a "criminal" and a "terrorist" is and use that as justification for mass surveillance. Palantir is far worse for me as a US citizen than any "terrorist".
- throwaway48476 2y agoWhy even have public trials or juries then? Just slows down the process.
- SlightlyLeftPad 2y agoRight. Transparency is a really important aspect of a functioning democracy. Without it, there’s less and less separating democracy from authoritarianism
- HPsquared 2y agoMost important is the appearance of transparency.
- bluedino 2y agoIf you were a murderer on the run and there was a manhunt for you, wouldn't you still be carrying a gun?
- Jtsummers 2y agoThat's the sort of thinking that helps them get caught. McVeigh was initially caught because his car didn't have a license plate and he had a concealed weapon. If he'd had an ordinary vehicle with a tag and no weapon, he wouldn't have been found so quickly and might have even evaded capture for years (even if his identity as the bomber were discovered).
- throwaway48476 2y agoHe was always going to be the fall guy. The groups he was involved in was full of federal informants and agents. Why such elements didn't try to stop him is another question for a FOIA that won't be returned for 100 years.
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- manquer 2y agoA gun perhaps, not the same gun used in the murder, that would be dumb to be caught with evidence directly connecting you with the murder. This is America, getting guns is not that hard. Gun owners tend to usually own more than one. Also you would want to carry a weapon in a manhunt only if you intend not to be caught alive, because firing your weapon in a manhunt would only end in one way for the hunted.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoThe weapon used in the murder? I've seen enough movies to know to get rid of it as soon as possible.
- tbrownaw 2y agoThe reason it's been made common knowledge is because it's what they want you to think. </tinfoil>
- stuckinhell 2y agosounds like bs. it's parallel construction
- coolThingsFirst 2y ago>Inactive GitHub profile >how did you decide his iq was >130? he threw his life in the dumpster and will spend the next 30 years in a 2x2 cell. smart guy indeed.
- ks2048 2y agoThis post is dumb in many ways not worth listing. And because of that, I realized I just read something nearly word-for-word on twitter (@peruvian_bull). Is that you or is this just copy pasta? https://x.com/peruvian_bull/status/1866213955687022656 https://x.com/peruvian_bull/status/1866213955687022656
- jcgrillo 2y ago..And he was smart enough to ditch the burner phone, clothes, and the backpack but he kept the untraceable weapon and the fake ID? Seriously what..? I hope we'll learn something that brings this all to a sensible narrative but here and now it seems like completely incoherent behavior.
- dang 2y agoI've banned this account for reasons explained in the sibling subthread. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you won't do this in the future.