In the sister blog and on Twitter during September-December 2016

The following posts appeared on the sister blog (on Computing) during September-December 2016.

• Moving to a tiling window manager

• OAuth2 authentication for offline email clients

• Migrating from R to Python

• How to make the banks paranoid about security? (Cross-posted on this blog as well).

Tweets during September-December 2016 (other than blog post tweets):

• 16 December 2016
  • "All it took was a crying baby and a phone call". Relying on mobile authentication is so silly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo h/t Bruce Schneier
• 15 December 2016
  • Australian fintechs don't need licence to test services for 12 months with 100 retail clients http://www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/media-centre/find-a-media-release/2016-releases/16-440mr-asic-releases-world-first-licensing-exemption-for-fintech-businesses/ h/t Regulation Asia
• 6 December 2016
  • Birch: Watson was right that world market for only 5 computers: they are Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google & Microsoft http://www.chyp.com/fintech-banks-are-coming-to-the-usa/
• 5 December 2016:
  • retweeted Bruce Schneier: Guessing Credit Card Security Details https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/guessing_credit.html
• 29 November 2016

  • Birch on money for the masses (private token money in pre-industrial revolution England) http://www.chyp.com/making-money-for-the-masses/

  • Mason in Jacobin: The development of finance reveals the progressive displacement of market coordination by planning https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/finance-banks-capitalism-markets-socialism-planning/

• 18 November 2016
  • Aswath Damodaran has written what is easily the best piece so far on the Tata Sons controversy http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.in/2016/11/the-4c-tradeoff-promise-and-peril-of.html
• 2 November 2016
  • Huertas has some new ideas on how to organize a global bank: LLPs, PE, unit banks: http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2016/11/02/global-banks-good-or-good-bye/
• 11 October 2016
  • Perhaps the best answer to the "why no bankers in jail for 2008" question: http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2016/10/11/americas-corporate-crime-dilemma/
• 19 September 2016
  • Eric Paley says venture capital funded cash burn and billion dollar exit plans can be dangerous for the founder https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/16/venture-capital-is-a-hell-of-a-drug/
• 13 September 2016
  • High frequency trading (HFT) algorithms are "human, all too human", "High feelings trading". https://socfinance.wordpress.com/2016/09/13/nietzsches-take-on-high-frequency-trading/

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