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Analemma_today at 3:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

You SBF defenders have such a weird view of how the law works. If I embezzle money from my company and then bet it all on black in Vegas, intending to give it back if I win, your implication here is equivalent to saying I did commit a crime if the wheel comes up red, but I did not commit any crime if it comes up black.


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Lerctoday at 3:47 PM

Not a SBF defender, and at no point am I suggesting that a crime was not committed. I am saying that the crime is different to theft.

Would you say that a misuse of funds with zero chance of the rightful owner losing their money is a less serious crime than a misuse of funds with a 50% or 100% chance of losing their money.

I think it is, and penalties should be proportionate. That is a principle that I hold independent to any of the specifics of this case.

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JumpinJack_Cashtoday at 4:11 PM

This is how people who get to the top act, the ones you see at the top are the ones who correctly guessed the roulette number .

If you want to become successful sooner or later you'd have to do the same .

As I realized this I am slowly but steadily abandoning the race for money and I am trying to approach it by finding the best deals for the stuff that I like as money saved is money earned and there is very little difference between experiencing a top 85 percentile thing and a top 99.999 percentile thing , but that last 15% man that is what the money exonential really goes crazy