You're assuming the owner rented the VPS to run the but but it's more likely intended for something else and is infected with malware / some intern being cute. After all there are cheaper plans than DO.
Their API business model seems to be hope enough people accidentally go over free tier: $0 for the first 5000 monthly places lookups, $40 per 1000 after that
Judges should have some amount of biases. A cold, calculating, unbiased judge in a world where laws are written by fallible humans would be terrible.
Judges should be able to apply judgement, not be merely automatons that sentence according to only the exact letter of the law.
Laws are not perfect, we need human judges.
Finally, if we are to submit ourselves to judgement by others, I gives me some comfort to know that the being judging me is equally mortal and can be deposed if necessary, as they are flesh and blood like me.
It's been criticized, but "time since last meal" is still known to be a predictor of harsher sentences (even when you control for legal representation / severity).
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