Xris Xeating

Fundraixer, Wikimedian, also tweets about politics and playing the violin.

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Thought for the day: Don't forget to savour the things you enjoy...

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@MorrisACollins This is hilarious.

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@DanNeidle *ONS definition of cheese

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@DanNeidle Did you use the HMRC defintion of cheese? What about the Cheesegeld?

;)

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@aseitzwald Nonsense! He sensed Luke's presence, realised the rebels had a nascent Jedi pilot, and used the best available asset - himself- to deal with that.

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@DrDavidErickson @asymmetricinfo Just had a quick look and they look roughly the same price as comparable wet systems, though not eligible for the heat pump grants the UK govt offers - which you only get if the system also does hot water

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@WomackPhilip @redrumlisa since well before the time of Elizabeth I, he says, pedantically. Elizabeth's legislation was about the regulation of (a very large number of) existing charities...

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@nickeread @salingergregor quite. it's much less usable than just listing departures by destination and platform. A couple of times I've been stumped by my train apparently not being on the list because I was looking at the wrong company's heading

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@OttokarHochman Fairness is, tbf untranslatable into English.

For very similar reasons, equity. One prominent international nonprofit put the word "equity" into its mission statement (written in 2018 by Americans) then spent 2 years trying to get its international volunteers to understand

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@prerat I don't think Turing envisaged the direction that AI safety would take -

but I think AI safety features are fair game. If AI can't have a human-like conversation about how to e.g. produce chemical weapons it doesn't pass the turing test

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@StefanFSchubert hmmm. Perhaps, but there was no inevitability about the way it went - absent ww1, one can imagine a gradual peaceful transition to a sort of commonwealth with a customs union

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@itaisher @RichardMCNgo @eyeslasho Wondered how you both thought this was playing out 1.5 years on

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@TrentTelenko What would that have accomplished over the last 30 years?

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@PhillipsPOBrien Does this include ground losses and friendly fire?

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@Birdyword One can of course still take the Wankbahn to Wank.

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@RichardMCNgo @LudwigBald Do you think those things are what "the common people" who voted for Brexit want?

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@RichardMCNgo What in particular do you think was "done badly"?

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@pinstripedline Presumably no other foods would survive long so might as well eat up the whole national stockpile before it goes off

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@JonNeale @gavinconvery the change keeps spreading tbh. I live in a small post-industrial Northern town and we have 2 good fine dining restaurants which drop in and out of Michelin guides plus a whole bunch of high-quality mid-market places

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@No5mallf3at yes, though also it's an information-disclosure and incentives-alignment problem. Difficult to get people to disclose how much they value a loaf of bread in a way which a) responds to changing needs and b) doesn't result in a gameable system, other than through prices