bloodearnest

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by bloodearnest 2y ago
Indeed it does, we are well aware of this, and write about it extensively. The leader of the OpenSAFELY project produced the Goldacre review for the UK Government, which discusses this risk in detail. Here's a quote from the executive
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by bloodearnest 2y ago
FWIW, the highest precision of location available is UK's MSOA[1] regions, which is more like your whole neighbourhood than your street. And whilst that level of data is available, it is not allowed to be released from the OpenSAFELY s
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by bloodearnest 3y ago
I don't think so - do you have a link?
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by bloodearnest 3y ago
Also, the OpenSAFELY team are actually all honorary employees of NHS England as part of the Information Governance for the project. Thus AIUI we are beholden to their policies and obligations regarding FOIA. And nearly everything except t
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by bloodearnest 3y ago
Nice Tuesday morning surprise to find your work on the front page of HN! I am one of engineering team working on OpenSAFELY at the Bennett Institute. Feel free to ask me any questions about the design or implementation of the system. We ta
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by bloodearnest 10y ago
Some good points, but just to clarify snaps current behaviour re libssl et al: Snap makes a distinction between a minimal set of critical core system dependencies, and application dependencies. So on every system with a snap, there is also
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by bloodearnest 13y ago
I think readlines() is slower in python 3 due to unicode decoding. Python 2 did no decoding, readlines() returns python 2's str type, just bytes. You'd have to decode yourself (or decode the whole file in open()). Python 3 readlin