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 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.

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.

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.

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 know already.

aye. "justify what we're doing, please mr ethics person"

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.

Maybe, but even proving there's a second protein that does this in mammals would be a major discovery.

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.

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 impacts on your life is that of having been convicted of a felony.