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Part (most?) of the damage isn't contained in the numbers you cited. Wells Fargo used customer identities to apply for and open credit cards, which could have affected their credit…

Looks like some good suggestions: - Glad they're recommending a stop to the pointless "password must be no longer than (16, 20, ...) characters". Aren't you storing a constant-leng…

I'm the same way, I find a good series of lectures to be the best way for me to wrap my head around something. I think it's a combination of "visual" and "global" learning styles. …

That's actually a great question and I don't think I can really answer it yet since I've only done internships and I'm set to start my first full-time job in January. I find some s…

I'd say it's bachelor level. It definitely requires some prior knowledge of digital logic and general computer systems concepts. Here's a link to the course page where you can find…

I highly recommend MIT's 6.006 for a good intro to data structures and algorithms. My college's course wasn't great, but watching the MIT lectures and working through CLRS helped m…

Here's a list with a mix of different kinds of courses: https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses

Yes! I've been watching his lectures as a supplement to my own comp architecture class.

I agree with you about the European parliament example, but speaking of the U.S. situation specifically, we already have a bicameral legislature with disproportionate representatio…

Nate Silver actually wrote a post about the LA Times poll. I don't think it makes sense to compare individual polls with poll aggregates. A single data point being accurate/inaccur…

Serious question (and I think the source of the confusion as to what direction has been chosen): if all those philosophies have been rejected, what exactly are we left with? What w…

I don't think any citizen's vote should count more than another just because they're part of a minority, geographic or otherwise. Imagine the uproar that would ensue if a politicia…