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The other thing that helps you is that you're made mostly of water, which is one of the substances with the highest heat capacity. So it's hard to heat up or cool.

Also there's a mechanism for taking into account charges like the campaign finance violations during his sentencing. (Which I'm not sure how I feel about) And in general his senten…

Yeah though people tend to argue semantics in this hypothetical. Especially if you win the bet. I definitely consider it akin to theft even if people don't quite want to use the wo…

Not quite true a lot of people seem to think that if you won the roulette spin that you committed no foul. At least in terms of how they argued SBF should be sentenced. So as you s…

I was wondering why he got so "much" time, but if he didn't testify that makes sense. I couldn't remember the list of testifiers.

Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't need an ethicist to justify moral behavior or even just to tell you what is moral. If you're high up in a company you should have the life experience to …

I'm of the opinion that prions occur more often than we know, it's just that to be a prion "disease", you need more properties than just spreading the misfolded shape. Importantly …

Madoff spent ~12 years in prison before he died at 82. They gave him a 150 year sentence for a crime on par-ish with SBF's crimes, because at 70 there is little difference between …

One of the victims at the sentencing mentioned that there were at least 3 suicides.

Parole means you're still serving your time and have a bunch of restrictions on movement and other things. Early release means your sentence is concluded and the only lasting impac…

If you're the CEO you're likely not allowed to trade this readily, no matter your reason. High-level execs tend to have to pre-declare sales and purchases months in advance.

Aren't purchases also shared between stores? Like if you buy an app on iPhone you also get it on iPad?

This is where I learnt about hypertapping and rolling: https://youtu.be/n-BZ5-Q48lE Though this is a different video of the same author as the original video in the OP

As far as I understand in the aviation world the expectation is that you tell the FAA after any incident, nevermind crash, and presumably wait for their guidance on the wreck.

The only sensible thing that would produce Earth based revenues would be some kind of intellectual property, but I don't know what is both sustainable enough and valuable enough to…

Mostly because expectations were so low. Especially after the disaster that was the evidentiary hearing where he offered some testimony without the jury present. (The judge wanted …

And even if you fire a client, you still have a duty towards them in regards to not tanking their defense.

That might have been a major consideration before he took the stand, where he perjured himself and showed no remorse. Now, I'm not sure the judge might not decide "If I'm going to …

Yeah, but even if it's not automatic and you need specific errors. A legal team is going to file one. Their arguments might vary and ultimately might not be very good, but you miss…

I don't know, but I very much assume so. He violated his bail already (multiple times) leading to it getting revoked. The judge also previously said, when asked about whether SBF c…

As others said, the judge will decide. One of the reasons for the delay is the preparation of the Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) that a parole officer will prepare. There's also time to…

Ponzi schemes in general refer to schemes where you use one customer's money to pay another customer's "returns on investment" without actually doing anything productive with the m…

As another comment says: Long and short scale. It depends on language more than metric/imperial.

> I assure you that extensive research into biological (not involving viruses), chemical, and nuclear weapons... and really a wide variety of weapons research is easily more danger…

I literally can't think of a more dangerous kind of research that we could be doing as a species than messing around and making viruses more dangerous. If we really have to do it, …