When are we, as a society, going to take small crimes seriously?

My girlfriend got scammed out of over $1000 on Ebay recently (seller is within the country). Here was the dastardly scam: she ordered something, and the seller never sent it. Ebay would do nothing; the police would do nothing.

Why can you just take people's money like this?

Small claims court is always an option in the US

What Hubble? If you're a Boltzmann brain, the Hubble is just an idea you have in your temporary brain, before it pops like a soap bubble.

> I think it's interesting how different people view status, like the "Harvard Professor or Homeless guy?" quiz that used to get passed around.

This is counter-signalling. "I don't have to dress like a high-status individual, because I'm so high status that my high status is clear either way." It's why somewhat intelligent people use big words, but very intelligent people speak plainly: they are so intelligent their intelligence is clear even without the big words, and they want you to know that.

Intelligence is generally correlated with the size of their vocabulary thought.

This is obliviously just a rule of thumb but if you take a pool of 100 well spoken individuals and 100 ... Not well spoken and then give them all some kind of intelligence test, the first group will definitely score significantly higher then the latter.

Yes, I'm aware that non native speaker (I am one of these), but they'd be statistically irrelevant in the context of the general population

Maybe I need to stop using “tautological”, “orthogonal”, etc in my speech… they are so ingrained into me from academic settings but in hindsight and in a professional context there are definitely people politely nodding and either thinking “I’ll look that up later” - or more commonly they’ll know the words just fine and instead it’s “why not just say ‘obvious’ / ‘unrelated’ / etc”.

I like trying to be precise but I think it’s coming at the cost of actual understanding/conveying the wrong status-signal (I don’t want an elitist vibe at work either!)

Or extra words and fancy words are just a waste of everyone's time.

What are some big words? I'm not a native speaker

A single man can be your ancestor in more than one slot on your family tree.

Yes, but this is pretty severely understated. Everyone in your family tree definitely will appear there many times over, except for very recent ancestors.

Taking an average human generation time of 25 years, you would theoretically have 2^30 = roughly a billion ancestors 30 generations back, or 750 years ago. But the population of the Earth in 1300 was... maybe 400 million. (e.g. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/internat... for world population estimates)

And your ancestors in 1300 aren't drawn from the entire population of the world; they're drawn from a tightly restricted subset of that.

And if you think that's ridiculous, imagine how many ancestors you'd have thirty-one generations back!

I receive some hacker news posts along with my other RSS feeds once per day, in the morning. You can still get the best of HN without "browsing".

Nothing is ever invented by the person it's named after [1].

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Elixir uses the term grapheme already:

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/String.html#graphemes/1

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