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About 4 and a half years back. Alpha Centuri is about 4.3 light years away.
Distance Learning for fun and profit...
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FaerieKnight79
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Wait, it takes you six to seven hours to read a 20k word chapter?!
YuffieK
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In total that seems about right. 1-2 hours to skim read it, then a nap or a meal to digest it. Then an hour or so reading the immediate comments, followed by a slow re-read to pick up on any nuances that might have been missed the first time.
FaerieKnight79
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Okay, granted I do tend to reread parts of the latest chapter (and maybe the last 3 chapters) a dozen times over the course of the next 24 hours after a story updates. But why merely skim over it initially when you could savor the entire thing in it's full glory, then go back later to enjoy the best parts over and over again?
cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
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Fixed that for you.>1k words is a mild argument or a short omake. Fifteen minute read.
>5k words is a chapter. One Hour read.
>20k words is a decently long chapter. One Hour read.
>40k words is a wonderfully long chapter. Two Hour read.
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Seriously though quarantine has given me quite a lot of time to read any content that pops up for me.
FaerieKnight79
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I already didn't go out much. Once every week or two for four hours of roleplaying, occasionally going out to dinner with my mom or walking down to a fast food place, but otherwise I stay home and mostly browse forums and read fanfiction. The pandemic didn't change that much for me personally. It's having the option to go out removed that's caused me to go stir crazy.
For example, my brother in law. He works for the government.
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Sadly, the multiple phones thing is entirely non-secret-agent related. Unless he's lying to me about his job at the VA hospital. As he never has to travel, I doubt it.
If it is plagiarism, then (I'll try not to throw up before finishing this simile, and you have my apologies) Stephanie Meyer's _Twilight_ series plagiarized Bram Stoker's Dracula. If only. We could have at least stopped the movies if that was the case...
This actually turns out to be incorrect. By law, the highest possible classification in the US is Top Secret.
So they added the concept of 'Sensitive Compartmentalized Information'. Essentially, you may be cleared for Top Secret information, but you don't actually get to know about something in a specific compartment unless you have a need to know.
For a purely random example, unless you have some reason to need to know about our most highly placed spy in Russia, you don't have access to anything compartmentalized under CARDINAL.
>1k words is a mild argument or a short omake.
>5k words is a chapter.
>20k words is a decently long chapter
ITYM 20K words is on the verge of maybe possibly kind of sort of becoming a chapter.
Uh... You don't read a half a million words a day?
Seriously? I'm not joking. I knew I was a fast reader, but I thought it was the difference between half a million and six hundred thousand words on a day where I didn't have to work....
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Taylor figuring out Zero-G from the extraterrestrial education channel is, IMO, less like plagiarism and more like sci-fi fans inventing automatic doors after watching Star Trek. Because that's a thing that happened IRL.
I mean... I can, but I'm also a super fast reader. Now I'm curious, how fast do people read?
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Copyright is the legal issue, plagiarism is more of a moral issue of claiming someone else's work as your own even stuff that is out of copyright. Of course if the work is well known it is considered an homage, not plagiarism, so West Side Story didn't plagiarize Romeo and Juliet, and possibly John Williams didn't really plagiarize Gustav Holst.
For research papers you don't need to cite the foundation stuff, but it is considered poor form to not cite unique contributions of others that were used. Of course if nobody knows, you won't suffer any social condemnation but might suffer a guilty conscience. Taylor is on shaky grounds here depending on whether or not she got more than just a hint something was possible and not the underlying science from viewing her distance learning channel.
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Balrog
not Durin's Bane
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- The Mines of Moria
Generally I am reading them during work so...
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- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
Except that she's already admitted in an earlier chapter that outside of some of the base concepts her work seems to be deviating from what her favorite learning channel is showing in later broadcasts. One of the things I suspect she's working on in her (sparse) spare time is going back through her notes to see where the deviation(s) occurred. After all, that could lead to more interesting projects.
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One company phone, one private one. Sure, your company may allow you to use the company phone for private use, or the company pays (mostly) for the phone and you pay the calls/data download/... yourself, but some people don't want that kind of transparency.
Alexandria wouldn't try to go through the bureaucracy to find out what's going on. Rather, she would go to Contessa and ask her for "Path to telling me who's behind it with names and addresses and history". Contessa's power is able to give her information she doesn't know about, and doing so wouldn't involve predicting outer space transmissions or peering into Shard-forbidden scientific areas, so the possible reasons why it fails on Taylor would not apply.
FaerieKnight79
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Considering that Contessa has found herself unable to path anything involving Brockton Bay, and yes that includes individual people as well as event... Here is what would likely happen. Alexandria would ask for said Path. And either Contessa is unable to do it because the Path would involve Brockton Bay, or it would give information on how to get to the office of the person who had just metaphorically thrown Costa-Brown out of his office while saying "this is out of your jurisdiction." Or in other words the Path wouldn't lead to Taylor Hebert, because Cauldron do not have clearance to know about Taylor Hebert.
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"What do you mean the Path isn't cleared for that information!?"
Sounds like they could ask Coil to "investigate." Would Coil's power work?
About reading speed, I find that the better the story is the slower I go, and when it's just so awesome I prefer to take long breaks just to enjoy floating around on a cushion of delicious delicious expectations. Unless it's a page-turner.
About reading speed, I find that the better the story is the slower I go, and when it's just so awesome I prefer to take long breaks just to enjoy floating around on a cushion of delicious delicious expectations. Unless it's a page-turner.
I have a feeling that some people won't be satisfied unless you have the aliens show up any take Taylor to court...
DoctorNobody
The Doctor is In(sane).
I'd guess it's more of Coil having enough survival instincts/common sense to know not to piss off the trillion-pound, nuclear-armed gorilla in the room.
It should work, but he is unlikely to get very far. The military is dubeling down on security, getting in will require alot of tries with alot of resources to get anythingSounds like they could ask Coil to "investigate." Would Coil's power work?
About reading speed, I find that the better the story is the slower I go, and when it's just so awesome I prefer to take long breaks just to enjoy floating around on a cushion of delicious delicious expectations. Unless it's a page-turner.
MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
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Or Coil being so used to his "Split timeline, drop the failure" that he does not care... and gets 'quieltly disappeared' by the TLA that Cauldron has no control over.
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Well, depends. I read, on average, somewhere between 40k and 60k words per hour (if I sit down and read). If I really want to read quick, I have broken the 100k words per hour Mark.>1k words is a mild argument or a short omake. Fifteen minute read.
>5k words is a chapter. One Hour read.
>20k words is a decently long chapter. Six-seven hours read.
>40k words is a wonderfully long chapter. Ten-twelve hours read.
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That happens rarely, and only if I really like that book... (I did manage to read Taylor Varga in 2 days, for example... And I was not sitting down there the entire day. Just most of it
)So, for me in particular it would be:
1k —> 1 minute to 2 minutes
5k —> 5 minutes to 8 minutes
20k —> 20 minutes to half an hour
40k —> 40 minutes to an hour
And that is for mere casual reading
Not: I need to finish that chapter real quick, and that afterwards, and how the heck is it already 4 in the morning? 
Speaking of alien math, if we ever do make contact, or people in a story make contact, talking about our numbers being in base 10 makes absolutely no sense. The reason; whatever base you use and is standard to your environment, base 10 remains true. Now, if instead you refer to it as base n+1 where n is the maximum single symbol representing a number then all sorts of things start making sense. So our mathematics becomes Base 9+1. An alien mathematical system might be Base 2+1, Base F+1 or anything else you care to speak of. Base 16 means nothing as it's shown in multiple digits and therefore expects a standard underlying base to work in to confer meaning. Base 10 is true for any and every base out there. The 1 indicates 1 more than can be represented in the 0 column, but otherwise gives no further information. Maths is odd like that.
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I have no idea how fast my reading actually is, but I read through the entire unabridged Lord of the Rings in about 6 hours when I was a teenager (back in the late 90s).
Other than fanfic nowadays, I tend not to really 'read' traditional fiction, but I still listen to audiobooks, which slows down the process to the point where I can devote more brainmeats to actually -comprehending- and -internalizing- the words.
Yeah, I burned through the entire LotR saga in six hours, but I remembered very little of it until I got the audiobook version (again unabridged) and have been listening to that about once or twice a year ever since around....2002?
Currently on my umpteenth re-listen, and it only gets better with repetition. ^^
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It occurs to me a that as she continues to expand her monitoring range, and thus the area for which her actions are based on knowledge of what's going on subspace, the more she is expanding the area in which Contessa power returns "Divide by Cheese Error."
If she gets planetary range, Contessa stops working on Earth Bet at all. And maybe other earths as well depending on how subspace and other dimensions interact.