[vba616]

I mean, yes, sure, they wouldn't want to send that message, but they still have to motivate the future benefactors and not the past ones with what limited resources are available.

I assume you have had plenty of experience in life where people praise you for one thing, but reward you for another.

[true_religion]

If SBF goes free or gets a Martha Stuart style low grade punishment, then he will be able to give millions in the future.

[vba616]

Speculation is risky. A bird in the hand...

Slight tangent:

It seems like there have been a lot of mentions of SBF on HN.

Alex Mashinsky strikes me as an even less sympathetic character, who made some of the all time poorest aging comments prior to his downfall, like "either we're lying or the banks are lying", and yet I couldn't find a single thread with his name that had any comments on HN.

There were quite a few Celsius threads, but "Mashinsky" doesn't seem to have attracted interest.

I don't make up or subscribe to conspiracy theories, so I have no hypothesis to explain this, but it has long seemed inexplicable to me how some things get 700 comments here and others get zero without a difference that seems salient to me.