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"When I began disciplined reading, I was reading at the rate of four thousand words a minute," the girl said. "They had quite a time correcting me of it. I had to take remedial reading, and my parents were ashamed of me. Now I've learned to read almost slow enough." "I don't understand," said Miss Hanks.

That's from R.A. Lafferty's "The Primary Education of the Camiroi" from 1966. I think I was turned on to Lafferty by this site and immediately loved his work. Still, I have "read" six books this week, and barely even remember which ones they were, let alone what they were about.

They have changed this recently with respect to pages, so you can follow a page without liking it and vice-versa. However, the default still seems to be that like = follow. It takes additional action to decouple them.

I would be interested in seeing how much it costs the top quintiles to stay alive that much longer than the lower quintiles. I suspect their SSDI payments aren't enough to cover the costs on average.

The link now shows "This article was published inadvertantly"

My American university has bought property in this manner. There were several old houses on the fringes of the campus with elderly owners. The university bought the properties years ago, but the owners continued to live in them until they died. Once the property transferred, the university bulldozed the houses to build new research facilities.

This is much trickier to navigate than a street. I overshoot what I want to look at with almost every click

I took my dad on a trip from Atlanta to Charlotte to see a college football bowl game. The train ride wasn't bad, but it definitely required a lot of flexibility to get to and from the stations in both cities. Taxis in the middle of the night in Charlotte, buses and walking in Atlanta. Neither city is really designed for rail to be integrated into their regional transport system, but I think both are trying to change that.

It is the same in Georgia, as well, for used cars purchased after the law changed. Rather than paying an annual ad valorem tax on the value of the used car, a value added tax is paid when the title is transferred and the car registered to the new owner. As a Georgia resident, I prefer the new law to the old, with the exception of the loopholes for new car dealers.

I hadn't heard of Diplomacy until I read the Grantland article [1] that was posted here yesterday.

"It is alot like Diplomacy. You want to be honorable/nice until you are playing for the final outcome of your career, then you stop playing nice." This sentence correlates exactly with the climax of that article.

  I don’t want to hurt the other players just to get that win, he had always thought. Additionally, by always being a trustworthy ally who plays honorably, Haver had built up a reputation as someone who was good to work with in tournaments. “That’s why it was easy for people on my board to say, ‘He’s not going to stab his ally.’

  “And that’s what allowed me to do it when I did.”

I am, however, hopeful that I would continue to be honorable through the end of my career. That's how you leave a legacy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7913183

Several similar items can be found on Thingiverse by searching for "bottles". I ran across a watering spout, a dumbbell attachment, and a sprayer.

I can't recall if it was this link or a reference in a comment somewhere else that caused me to go read this story yesterday, but I really enjoyed it. I also ended up reading "The Tunnel Under the World" [1] by Frederik Pohl and "How-2" [2] by Clifford Simak. Then, today, in a moment of serendipity, I ran across a recent paper [3] and article [4] questioning whether the increase of automation and unmanned vehicles in military use is going to bring about defense robots turning on their masters. The paper appears to be behind a pay-wall, so I've linked to the abstract. Those with university library access may be able to grab it.

[1] http://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/82060/3/Isaac_Asimovs_...

[2] http://www.e-reading.mobi/chapter.php/82060/14/Isaac_Asimovs...

[3] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0952813X.2014.895...

[4] http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2014/05/21/Autonomous-arm...