Isn't the Trolley Problem a Kind of Arbitrage?

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Both of your parents are famous law professors at stanford. But in which respect have you brought a legal mind to your endeavours? It's becomingcreazingly over time. If you ask a random financial regulator somewhere in the world to day, what fraction of your time spen thinking about cripto a 50%. You look at discourse, youni, i tell you that the senate is having a hearing on something related to finance to day. What you think the odds are that it's about lock chainye,. I actually knew who they each were, i just hadn't known they were your parents. Like half the law book is effectively empty but that doesn't mean that there

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Recorded January 6th, 2022 Other ways to connect

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