There’s nothing “safe” about using paypal: http://gizmodo.com/paypal-has-to-…

Another good reason can be peace of mind. I had a Bank of America credit card, and was fed up with their crap. My credit is otherwise good, and my credit utilization is generally low even without that card. So I decided it was worth closing the account, just so I had the peace of mind from knowing I have no account at…

The Droid Turbo is part of the Droid brand, a line if phones Motorola makes specifically for Verizon. So I don’t think it will come to any other carriers, sorry 😞

I have a Moto X 2014. My next phone will definitely be a new version of the Moto X or a new Nexus. I wouldn’t touch a Samsung phone with a 39.5 foot pole.

My point isn’t about speed in solving the one simple problem. It’s about extending that skill to more complex ones.

Nope, the way I get 5*9=45 is essentially by taking 5*10=50, and then subract 5. I guess you could say I know the 10 table, but even then it’s not that I memorized 5*10=50, it’s that I understand that when you multiply anything by 10 it just moves the decimal point. It’s a subtle, but important, difference.

But I don’t. I don’t just know 6*8=48 in the same way that I just know the first president was George Washington. I actually think about the numbers and how they fit together to create 48. Specifically, my thought process goes “six times 2 is 12, times 2 is 24, times 2 is 48”

That’s a nice analogy. However, if you become too reliant on the macro it can come back to bite you. Always rely on the macro, forget how to do it without the macro, and then you can’t apply it to anything outside of the pre-defined space of numbers 1 through 12 that the macro works on.

I think it’s usually emphasized as a memorization thing in school. But I hope you’re right, I hope most people are doing the math and not just memorizing it.

The difference is that by understanding it, instead of memorizing it, you can apply techniques to do more advanced things. Someone who purely memorized the standard 1-12 times tables without really learning anything might be great with those numbers... but ask them 13*15 and they’ll stumble. They might still be able…

I disagree. I think just memorizing things doesn’t help you understand any more advanced math at all. But actually learning and understanding basic multiplication is a concept that can be applied to other mathematical things and help you better understand more advanced math.

I’m not just counting out 45 items. For 9*5, I would essentailly do 10*5-5. I guess you could say that I “memorized” how to multiply by 10, but learning and understand how to multiply anything by 10 is still different than actually memorizing exactly 10*5=50.

You can still do that without memorizing them, multiplying one digit numbers for each step can just be done in your head. And I trust my ability to do that basic multiplication in my head more than I trust my ability to correctly remember it.

Honestly I’ve never understood the point of the times tables. I think it points to one of the main reasons so many people struggle with math. We focus too much on memorization, of times tables, formulas, etc. Math is much easier if you instead focus on understanding the concepts.

I don’t know the basic multiplication table either, and I have a degree in mathematics and economics. I just do the multiplication every time. Why memorize 6*8 when it takes less than two seconds to figure out that it’s 48?

A lot of this security focused stuff is great. Apple does appear to be better than Google at some of these things. However, I want Google to have all my data.

There’s a saying I remember learning back in school while I was learning some statistics: Statistics never lie, statisticians do.

Is this an Apple Pay terminal, or an any NFC pay terminal?

Very true. I saw a diagram on the internet once showing the parts of a bee and a wasp. The bee was labeled with things like “abdomen” and “wings”. All the parts of the wasp were labeled with words like hatred, anger, wrath, etc.

That’s a separate issue. There was a while where it was a popular issue to discuss how your charger was “leeching” power even when you weren’t using it. It was about the cord still being plugged into the wall during the day, while your phone isn’t even plugged into the other end.