For a long time now, &quot;my&quot; bank (Nordea, in Sweden) has announced that it's removing what they used to call &quot;simplified login&quot;. This &quot;simplified login&quot; actually meant &quot;the ability to log in without being harassed with hardware dongles and crippled nonsense&quot;. While it existed, it allowed me to automate logging in to fetch the current balance as well as seeing if there are any new transactions for me to record into my own bookkeeping system. I didn't want to believe that they would actually go through with it, and they kept postponing the time for when this was to go into action further and further away. But now they finally did it, in spite of my numerous requests for them to not do this, or at the very least provide some kind of API for me to use. They completely ignored every single attempt by me to talk sense to them, just parroting the same standard replies over and over, since they had clearly made up their mind: they will not give even the most basic access to one's account without being forced to actively sit there and manually enter codes into a hardware device or to use an &quot;app&quot; on a surveillance unit (&quot;smartphone&quot;), which is completely useless to me or anyone with half a horse sense left in their mind. The less I comment on their new, severely broken website, the better, but the point is that it makes automation 100% impossible, even for fetching your balance. I'm not talking about making actual money transactions automatically or anything like that. Please note that their so-called &quot;Open Bank API&quot; service is fake. It isn't actually available to individuals like me -- only to major organizations/companies and &quot;app makers&quot; with special permission and a lot of red tape. (They don't make this clear at all for some reason.) So, now I've just spend significant time and effort removing all my code related to Nordea and all the careful automation I've set up to keep track of my finances. It's all gone. They will very clearly never listen to me, their API is not actually available to use, and none of their alleged &quot;methods of login&quot; can be automated. I spent countless hours over a long time coding and thinking about that mechanism, and now it's useless. To make matters even worse, they are actually still going to be charging the same hefty fee monthly from my account, even though I now don't even get to know how much money I have in my account... Switching banks isn't feasible, nor would it do any good as they are all the same. I wonder if they treat people with a lot of money in their accounts the same way as they do me? Do they also have to manually log in with a dongle and codes every time they want to see their account balance or fetch data to update their local bookkeeping database table? That Ethereum/Ether thing sounds promising when they explain it on their website, but I've never met a single person who knew what that even is. They barely have heard of Bitcoin, let alone know how to use it or own any. What should we do now that the powerful, gigantic banks have decided that the slaves don't even deserve even the smallest amount of &quot;power&quot;?
I have just discovered that my local bank, Nordea, has decided to remove the only good thing about their entire operation: the so-called "simplified login" feature on their website, which allows (soon allowed) the customer to log in to a kind of very limited "read-only" mode which basically just allowed you to see your current balance, the last few transactions (limited descriptions) and see whether or not there are any new "customer support messages", but not read those messages, not make any kind of payments, edit accounts, etc.  Now, they will only allow "full" logins, which 100% prevents any kind of automation and requires you to sit with a hardware device and enter numbers into it and then into the webpage before it allows you to see as much as your account balance. Other than being very obnoxious for every customer, it also blocks me and other "advanced" users out from our custom-programmed bots which have always regularly logged in with that "simplified" login method just to regexp out the current balance/new messages and then notify us via whatever mechanism we use privately.  I have previously asked them if they have any kind of JSON/RSS API of any kind, but no. They don't even have as much as e-mail notifications! Nothing except their spyware "smartphone app" which I would never install, nor would I ever allow such a surveillance device to track me 24/7 in the first place. Only by being a registered corporation with special, way more costly account types do you get any kind of "API" access from them, even to do this most basic imaginable task.  Before you tell me to switch banks, the others are at least just as bad (even worse from what I can tell, and for a longer time), and the act of switching banks is practically impossible for me personally.  What I'm asking is if maybe somebody knows of some sort of "hidden standard" or something which all banks in the world support, but don't have documented, for people like me to automate basic things such as knowing my account balance. Needless to say, I have looked for this countless times on their website, asked them about it, and asked other people about it. Nobody seems to know anything, or, if they do, won't tell me.  I know that there are a bunch of "Nordea-supporting" PHP libraries and whatnot on Github, but they are all ancient and even if they were up to date, they were most likely using the same method as I have been using: automating the login process through their "simplified login" mechanism, which is "soon" to be gone. (Probably at new year; they didn't even mention any dates or time frames.)  And yes, I have a Bitcoin wallet and have that fully automated. The problem is that virtually nobody else in the world cares about my Bitcoin, so "switching to Bitcoin" remains a pipe dream which I would be ready to do, but the world clearly isn't.
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Range of $(a_{1}-a_{2})^2+(a_{2}-a_{3})^2+(a_{3}-a_{4})^2+(a_{4}-a_{1})^2$ is If $a_{1},a_{2},a_{3},a_{4}\in \mathbb{R}$ and $a_{1}+a_{2}+a_{3}+a_{4}=0$ and $a^2_{1}+a^2_{2}+a^2_{3}+a^2_{4}=1.$ Then Range of $$E =(a_{1}-a_{2})^2+(a_{2}-a_{3})^2+(a_{3}-a_{4})^2+(a_{4}-a_{1})^2$$ is  Try: From $$(a_{1}-a_{2})^2+(a_{2}-a_{3})^2+(a_{3}-a_{4})^2+(a_{4}-a_{1})^2$$ $$=2(a^2_{1}+a^2_{2}+a^2_{3}+a^2_{4})+2(a_{1}a_{2}+a_{2}a_{3}+a_{3}a_{4}+a_{4}a_{1})$$ $$=2-2(a_{1}+a_{3})(a_{2}+a_{4})=2+2(a_{1}+a_{3})^2\geq 2$$ and equality hold when $\displaystyle a_{1}=-a_{3}$ and $a_{2}=-a_{4}$ Could some help me how to find its upper bound, Thanks Can I use Gödel numbers to make a proof?