Reminds me of the late 90s/early 2000s when millions of accounts for a german online service (T-Online) have been stolen - by 3rd party tool for that service that offered additional services including up/downing your connection (which was essential for those high, minute based rates back then. Butso it had your password, of course)

It was a PITA to convince people to stop using that tool because it was so usefull.

Sounds like a good idea at the first thought. But it begs the question, why it is allowed for commercial airplanes...

But that's what news stories should have been about when killing people using remote controlled devices was news and not normal.

Even worse: The STANDBY LIGHT!!

Lights up your bedroom when you want to sleep at night. Oh yes, of course you could switch on the device to switch to the much darker gree power light....

No, common core should be about teaching HOW TO add.

And adding large numbers by "carrying over in your head" isn't much more that doing exactly that: doing 2+2 first, carry over if needed and then add 20 + 20. You're just so used to it that you forgot to that you had to learn that too.

But to be fair: You can produce a decent (and potentially next-big-thing) app, if you can afford to lock yourself up for a few months without having to worry about paying food and rent. Unlike a new MS Office-killer or hardware plattform, you can get by with sheer luck instead of big investors if your project goes viral on social media.

Talent and hard work will reduce the amount of luck you need to hit it big, but you always will need that spark of luck, like being at the right place at the right time.

So you have students doing "public services" for all the wrong reasons. Which does a disservice to all those fields. In any group, it's better to have volunteers dedicated to whatever their group is doing (from drama to helping homeless) and NOT just find the easiest way to have it listed in their CV.

But why are they hiding from behinf that "shield?" It's the army of lawyers ready to sue the pants of everyone who has the guts to make a descision based on a personal impression and not based on standardized metrics.

Well, there's at least one difference: No 19th century Jew wrote a bestseller book promoting that unbalanced training-to-the-test as superior, typical jewish way.

Except James T. Kirk.....

Sounds familiar. .-)

Which is exactly how every sane person does mental arithmetics. Take a difficult problem (22+22) and break it down into simpler sub-tasks (20+20)+(2+2)

If you can't do that, you'll be relying on a calculator for even the simplest tasks. Welcome to Idiocracy.

...in a fast-paced modern economy that builds success on college degrees that have to have the right (expensive) college names on them and restricts admission to those papers based on school grades.

Self-fulfilling prophecy.

Weren't "words with multiple meanings" like "mile" exactly what crashed that Mars lander? so you probably want to avoid them - just to eliminate a potential source of confusion. No matter if you can handle them in your everyday kitchen, where the worst consequence could be 14ml to much milk when mixing up canadian with us cups.

Half-trolling.

But also pointing ouit that measuring with the "object cup" is perfectly useable in some situations. e.g. if a recipe would be given in a completly arbitrary and even unknown unit, you could replace the given unit with "cup". "liter" or "shotglass" or "any old container you happen to have at hand" and still reproduce the intended taste. If it used fractional values, you'd usually still get a good approximation. (everyone can see when a cylindrical container is roughly filled halfways)

And also non trolling would be my point that no one could argue that most definitly "my cup full of water is a cup full of water". At least if you don't want to go semantic hell.

Well, to avoid ambiguity, when referring to the exact measurement, you could use 237ml instead.