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kosievdmerwe··on NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System
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.
kosievdmerwe··on Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison
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 sentencing was about whether they were going to put him away for a defacto life sentence or not. And I'm not sure that more charges for the same crime spree would affect that.

kosievdmerwe··on Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison
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 word.

And importantly even if you ignore the fact that people aren't being made whole by the bankruptcy's 100% claim, people still won't have gotten their money back for years. So people are still significantly harmed despite the criminal winning some illicit bets.

kosievdmerwe··on Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison
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 said the commingling was a large part of their crime.

But they did commit a bunch of straight up theft of customer funds to pay for marketing, political donations or stuff like houses for the employees.

kosievdmerwe··on Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison
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.

kosievdmerwe··on FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf]
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 know already.
kosievdmerwe··on ELI5: What Are Prions?
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 a critical property is that it needs to be damaging enough to be noticeable and neural matter has the unfortunate property that it heals slowly (if at all) so low level damage can accummulate.

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
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 20 years and 100 years, so you may as well go for the shock value.

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
One of the victims at the sentencing mentioned that there were at least 3 suicides.
kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
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 impacts on your life is that of having been convicted of a felony.

kosievdmerwe··on Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
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.
kosievdmerwe··on Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one
Aren't purchases also shared between stores? Like if you buy an app on iPhone you also get it on iPad?
kosievdmerwe··on After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
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

kosievdmerwe··on YouTuber sentenced to 6 months in prison for obstructing probe into plane crash
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.
kosievdmerwe··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
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 fund a colony.

EDIT: this is also made worse by the fact that the first few colonists should be farmers, mechanics and doctors (aka human mechanics), since all the intellectual work can be done on earth.

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
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 to see if what he wanted to testify was allowable)

During that testimony (where he was under oath), he rambled, misinterpreted questions, gave evasive answers and generally acted like he did in some interviews.

On the Friday, with the jury present he actually told his life story (to humanize himself) and answered mostly softball questions, before ending his direct with reframing deflections of the evidence and other people's testimony.

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
And even if you fire a client, you still have a duty towards them in regards to not tanking their defense.
kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
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 give him what's effectively a life sentence, I might as well make an example", like they did with Madoff.

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
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 every shot you don't take.

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
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 could remain out of jail during just during his trial after his bail got revoked:

> “Your client in the event of conviction could be looking at a very long sentence. If things begin to look bleak … maybe the time would come when he would seek to flee.”

I don't imagine the judge will give him time to get his affairs in order from outside prison, which is something I understand happens (like it did with Elizabeth Holmes)

kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
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 argue about mitigating and exacerbating factors by the lawyers on both sides.
kosievdmerwe··on Sam Bankman-Fried lawyer says government portrayed FTX founder as a 'monster'
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 money.

The core crime alleged in the FTX situation is that SBF and conspirators used customer funds as their piggy bank. Both FTX and Alameda were at their core legitimate businesses, but instead of funding themselves and their founders' exploits with money that was properly theirs, they used money that they were supposed to safeguard.

Eventually, Alameda lost so much money that they could no longer hide what they were doing and had to declare bankruptcy. However, importantly, the crime would be that they improperly took the money in the first place, not that they lost it.

kosievdmerwe··on The human body has 1.8T cells dedicated to defending it
As another comment says: Long and short scale.

It depends on language more than metric/imperial.

kosievdmerwe··on Lab leak fight casts chill over virology research
> 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 dangerous.

They very much are not.

Viruses and bacteria are unique in the fact that they can harm the whole globe as opposed to chemical and other disasters that will likely only harm the immediate area.

And harming the whole globe is all the more certain for infectious diseases if you put them in the middle of a large city with lots of air travel.

> Now you'll want to have an ultra-secure means of transporting highly dangerous biological samples, not to mention research teams & observers, at very high speeds to the middle of a desert. Are you sure you've improved the risk profile?

Why would you need to transport things at high speed for speculative research involving newly generated viruses/bacteria?

I never said anything about analysing things involving people who are actively infected, but there the disease is already out in the public, so the risk profile is completely different.

kosievdmerwe··on Lab leak fight casts chill over virology research
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, then we can do it in the middle of a desert with quarantine procedures instead of near/in population centers.

kosievdmerwe··on AMD's Anti-Lag feature is getting gamers banned from Counter-Strike 2
Presumably it doesn't require an expensive monitor.

If you don't underestimate the render time (and miss the refresh) then the frame will be fresher.

kosievdmerwe··on $8B Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today
The unit is months not years (as I also thought until I watched Shkreli's video.)
kosievdmerwe··on $8B Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today
I'm also starting to think that people underplay the devastation financial crimes cause relative to physical violence. People in a very real sense "eat money".

If you steal someone's life savings you've harmed them way worse than just giving them a beating. And investment fraudsters tend to also have a lot of victims.

That's never mind the physical harm that results from the stress of losing your life savings, including substance abuse and in extreme cases suicide.

kosievdmerwe··on $8B Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today
Yeah it'd be a very bad idea for him to get up on the stand, but I'm putting large odds on it happening despite his lawyers' warnings.

But who knows, maybe having his bail revoked gave him some perspective of how seriously he should take this and that he isn't a legal genius.

kosievdmerwe··on The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook
That was a shock to me because it used to actually be everyone's names.
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