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And they acknowledge 86% sensitivity and 44% specificity. It's a coin-toss which biases massively against research from outside the US and Western Europe.
This "paper" is bigoted nonsense.
TOTP is great, but developers need to start adding it to their apps by default.
If anyone's interested, here's the openly-licenced syllabus, in English and French: https://github.com/whythawk/data-wrangling-and-validation
Publishers announce the books they'll be releasing a year in advance,and - seriously, this is a rabbit hole I knew nothing about when I started - people were offering bounties to pirate my book before it was available. I have a Google alert for my books so I can read reviews, so all this chatter was turning up. These are people who had no intention of paying for the work, no matter what, but also seemed to be going out of their way to make sure no-one would have to pay.
You can talk about DRM and clunky websites, but that comes across as post-hoc justification. The pirates seem simply to hate the idea that creators might earn anything, no matter how little.
Both novels were stolen and uploaded to ZLib within the first week of release: https://b-ok.cc/s/gavin%20chait
Here's how I - as author - experienced it:
- Within the first week someone buys the book via Amazon using a stolen credit card;
- Book is uploaded to ZLib;
- I complained to Amazon, raising both the issue of the stolen work and the stolen credit card;
- No response from Amazon, although they were quick to reverse the charge (I'm assuming as soon as the card is reported stolen);
- I complained to ZLib using their DMCA reporting tool;
- ZLib care about as much as Amazon, and my novels are still up.
I made it as easy as possible to read my work on my website and pay me direct. I released it as a DRM-free epub for use on any device or platform. You can even buy anonymously. Still doesn't matter. Folks like the OP won't support writers.
And, while this won't stop me writing, it makes it impossible to afford to write as often as I'd like. Two years after my second, I'm still trying to save up enough to afford to write my third.
Thanks OP.
I'd love to see a standard schema for rates data, but that's unlikely.
The scale of the number of the hereditaments (taxable units) is remarkable and overloads local tax authorities. We're talking thousands, with regular tenant changes. Even in central London, there are only a handful of municipal staff to deal with all businesses.
What you end up with is equivalent to a denial-of-service attack against rates authority staff. They're overwhelmed.
That's the real risk to communities. If tax relief claims are industrialised, it puts endless pressure on the services those taxes were supposed to pay for. These are local taxes, so that's libraries, community centres, road maintenance, etc.
WeWork may not be a tech company when it comes to what they're selling, but it is when it comes to how they deal with tax.
So, yes, I'm in agreement.
A data scientist is a researcher who answers a research question using data, and can lead the development of the research process. They may design the methods to acquire primary or secondary sources of data that inform the research process, monitor and ensure ethical responsibilities, curate the research data and results, or communicate the process and results to stakeholders. Coding is incidental to that process, and it is possible to be a data scientist without programming at all.
The openness to the truth of a research answer is what is often lacking in much of tech-driven data science. Mostly, it sounds more like a statistician who codes, than a researcher who focuses on data-as-source.
Anyhow, the first module is complete, and I still have the rest of the 20-module course outline - which was aimed at public health professionals - and was thinking of crowd-funding each module, if anyone is interested? It's based on the Sloyd model of teaching, so each module is discrete, building on the previous module, and provides a functional and holistic understanding of the scientific method as it applies to data.
I'm not saying I know what the answer should be, and this sits on legally and ethically tricky ground all over the world. The mentally ill have been treated pretty badly through history, and I'm not sure that benign neglect is the worst of these options but I do think there should be some formal system of checking on them (informally, there are any number of NGOs and religious groups who tend to keep tabs on the homeless, funding permitting).
"When he was in hospital without any documents or ID I came up with the idea of medical bracelets for homeless people. I bought about 100 waterproof USB wristbands which can hold important information and I've given away about 60 so far."
There are any number of people made homeless through mental illness. They are often lost in the system when they become critically ill, and such an identifier would help medical professionals to reunite these people with their families.
The long-term effect on her was that her tear-ducts stopped working. Many things back then, as now, that public figures had to do to remain employable had these horrible health effects.
Still, we get a cool souvenir and I'm genuinely pleased to see this clip of the things being made.