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4,890karma·475submissions·December 6, 2010
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For what it's worth, the word/concept globalisation is much more mainstream now
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Not sure about SML but its close cousin OCaml (which I learned after SML) is used a lot in industry by some big names: * Facebook - OCaml for Hack, Reason, Flow - static analysis and compilers * Jane …
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Thanks. I try to post things that are the intersection of tech and ethics. I now see that it had been posted before.
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Assume this is to do with stereotype threat + gender stereotypes that pink -> girl -> less violent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat i.e. being "primed&q…
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Bourdain - what a fascinating guy. I like the brutal honesty. Painful to read some of it though. That line at the end - "luck is not a business model" - a classic. Any examples of startup-su…
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Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title? I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objectiv…
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The legal system cannot help at this stage. I have met this guy http://www.oldsquare.co.uk/our-people/profile/james-chegwidd... who successfully defended two boys’ right to …
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Actually - someone did make me get circumcised. I was forcibly circumcised as an infant
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People downvoting the above - see the cached version of the article to see why the utilitarian / public health justifications are incorrect. I agree - it's on the wrong side of history. When…
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Site has been overwhelmed by traffic - cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.pr... …
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There are many African students at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (an alumnus of which runs the World Health Organization). The discourse at that institution around circumcision, a…
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True, regarding the UK. There are some complex dynamics at work 1. a conflict of interest when there is a financial incentive to do a surgery 2. a pattern of doctors / father who are circumcised …
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Didn't realise how into it Bill Gates was - thanks for pointing that out. Hearing that boy's sadness in that video is very upsetting.
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Says it all, really. Interestingly the same applies back home...
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Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.pr... There is a definite neo-colonial shadow hanging over it…