settlements

If people always just settled becuase they might lose guess how much Big Corps will offer for settlements?

N expensive lawsuits might be cheaper than M cheap settlements, if M is sufficiently larger than N.

I didn't mean to talk about it as if it were a commonplace thing, but compared to settlements on other worlds, it is.

Are you sure you didn't think about copyright law or investor state settlements laws when you wrote your comment?

For physical commodities, financial cost will eventually converges to physical cost as the contracts reach settlements.

A similarly non-traditional-law model can be seen in banking, where fines and settlements are often reached without a judicial process.

Lightning network is designed for settlements between off-chain transaction providers, it's not for peer-to-peer payments.

Large countries that effectively use their land, have roads to every part, have significant settlements in every region, etc are rare.

Several contemporary settlements have been excavated: Nevalı Çori, Jerf el Ahmar, Mureybet.

Everytime I read of Mars settlements and I think of eventual childs born there, I feel there is something wrong.

Even when the media companies won huge settlements from individuals they lost.

Fines and settlements can be reached for common people too - you can agree not to proceed with litigation and settle out of court.

While you can't be blind for those thing that is also the case for the illegal settlements, the "collective punishment" mantra, the constant war mongering, etc.

I'm three for three on past health insurers getting hacked and disclosing everything, and have more worthless third-party "credit protection" settlements than I could possibly use (just enter your SSN!).