In the sister blog and on Twitter during December 2015 and January 2016

The following posts appeared on the sister blog (on Computing) during the last two months.

• Moving to Arch Linux

• Cryptography and Draw of Lots

• Data access controls within banks (Cross posted on this blog also)

Tweets during the last two months (other than blog post tweets):

• 28 January 2016

  • 1/2 Paul Volcker in 1985: The success of countries ... of pushing their own currencies down without creating problems is extremely limited

  • 2/2 h/t for Paul Volcker quote is http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/01/27/2151269/the-plaza-accord-then-and-cough-now/

• 20 January 2016

  • Sumner: "markets seem to respond more strongly to the supposedly meaningless Chinese data than to the US GDP data" http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31430

  • @KohimaVittal @monikahalan Sorry I cut short the original quote from "global asset markets" to "markets". It was not about India at all.

• 21 December 2015:

  • 1/2. A few months ago, I argued for side pockets for distressed (Amtek Auto) bonds in Indian mutual funds. The side pocket is like an ETF.
  • 2/2. More drastic solution is to turn the whole fund into ETF. http://www.etf.com/sections/blog/etfs-solve-mutual-bond-fund-problem shows that ETFs did better in US bond market turmoil

• 8 December 2015: Nice story on why the Chip & PIN terminal should be in two pieces https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2015/12/01/forced-authorisation-chip-and-pin-hitting-high-end-retailers/(h/t Bruce Schneier). Is this risk there in India?

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