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Thank you for your contribution to building a surveillance state.

The EU is forcing all European banks to expose account APIs with PSD II by end of 2017.

Any reference for this? The text of PSD II is here — http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320... — but it's too long and it isn't clear to me whether it is actually ratified.

Looks like there's no actual QKD happening on the QKarD, so, if someone were to replace the “TA does QKD with a satellite” part with a “TA generates a bunch of random bits”, nobody would even notice.

It is no secret that American students overall lag their international peers.

An interesting opinion that I've heard from a person who's made a huge contribution to US education is that if you take high school students from some US minority group, say, American Scandinavians, they'll turn out to be doing better than Scandinavians in Scandinavia, and the same goes for most other minority groups (apparently including American Chinese), as well as for white Americans vs the population of most other countries. What brings the average down, however, is the fact that there are so many (mostly) South American immigrants who are forced to study in a language other than their native language, which is not the case in most other countries.

I have not fact-checked this, but it is an interesting perspective.