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It is somewhat easy to forget for a casual player (such as myself) but I'm not sure that it's really unfair... it seems to occur just infrequently enough that I don't always take advantage of it. But when my opponent does it to me and I wasn't expecting it, I see it as my own fault. It's simply a rule of chess.

EDIT: I see now the title has been changed to "En passant — a lesser known chess move". I replied when the title said it was an "Unfairly unknown" move

Haha just seen that. Amazon need a bit of help with their categorisation, unless I've forgotten an important part of the book...

Life-changer. I read the book based on this series [1] when I was progressing from doodling / being mostly unaware of visual art to being interested in (seeing and making) visual art. I've never looked back.

In the book, the image quality in it is low so I recommend watching the TV series as linked

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/014103579X/ref=asc_df_014103579X...

I've found that my migraines have responded more to counselling than medication although there are physical triggers too. My rosacea is also reduced in severity by counselling, although not as dramatically.

It's not exactly ridiculous - it's an emotional response. To be fair, viewing women as pieces of meat / breeders / subhuman is a pretty widespread part of society and is a kind of misogyny.

Giving birth is an ability that most women have (and is potentially the flip-side of disadvantages like the gender pay gap adjusted for job choices and maternity leave), that men categorically do not have (while men wield the strength advantage), and giving that ability to men on a large, cheap scale is a scary thought for women and could have huge implications.

I have to say, it seemed more like the account holder was just someone who was honestly angry about it, and made a new account to post for the first time, rather than being a troll.

Human life is more about emotions than logical argument, and this is an emotionally charged issue for people who naturally have wombs.

I mean for a trivial example, I even used to get annoyed by people who have braces, because I always had good teeth and people would always ask me "Oh when did you have braces? When did you have your teeth whitened?". It was only after I had laser eye surgery to correct my terrible vision that I was OK with it all ;)

I take your point but it's an interesting issue, isn't it? What would the world look like if it was the norm for men to reproduce without women, and/or for women to reproduce without men?

For what it's worth, the word/concept globalisation is much more mainstream now

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 Street - heavy user for their entire backend

* Bloomberg

* Citrix

etc https://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html

Haskell is also closely related but different as it has lazy evaluation unlike SML

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

I was taught SML as a first year CS student to learn the basics of programming (although I had already used C-like languages). ML stands for Meta Language - it was originally designed and used to prove theorems. That's why SML itself tends to be quite an academic thing to this day.

Thanks. I try to post things that are the intersection of tech and ethics. I now see that it had been posted before.

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" for that stereotype by seeing pink everywhere, makes you conform to your subconscious associations with the colour pink

Edit: please let me know why I am being downvoted as I would like to understand this issue further :)

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-success-story-type people acknowledging this, or the general idea of survivorship bias?

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 objective report." - I did not express any opinion in the title - I simply added context for those who don't know about the so-called "contaminated blood scandal" in the UK. Namely the three-letter detail I added was "HIV" i.e. that the UK's government-run National Health Service infected patients as young as 8 years old with HIV.

This change was not gratuitous as it added essential context to the story.

I have checked the Hacker News guidelines and since the article dispels myths people have about health systems, which is an interesting area of society, I felt it was pertinent.

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 choose in the UK (this was only made possible because their mother DIDN’T want them circumcised and their dad did).

There is no legal basis for circumcision but unfortunately the law cannot help in this case as it reflects public opinion.

Check this out written by the author of this article https://youtu.be/sQQTIpBWqvY

I am considering retraining from software engineering into health policy to combat non-therapeutic infant circumcision in the UK

Actually - someone did make me get circumcised. I was forcibly circumcised as an infant

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 we look back will be shocked at what we did to ourselves and our children, simply because we could not evaluate a study correctly.

In the case of infants it's certainly non-consensual

In the case of adults there is an issue with the "informed" part of informed consent

There is massive historical momentum behind it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision#R...

Site has been overwhelmed by traffic - cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.pr...

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, and the taboo of mentioning it alongside FGM/C without saying "circumcision is NOTHING compared to FGM" are difficult

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 feeling the need to promote it to others

3. an issue where men circumcised as infants are never approached for follow-up consent by healthcare professionals, so never know what happened

4. an issue where men circumcised as infants know what happened but rationalise it

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.

Says it all, really. Interestingly the same applies back home...

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.pr...

There is a definite neo-colonial shadow hanging over it

Hi - I couldn't find a way to contact you and was unable to reply in situ for some reason. Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title to my latest submission? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=isomorph )

I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report." - I did not express any opinion in the title - I simply added context for those who don't know about the so-called "contaminated blood scandal" in the UK. Namely the three-letter detail I added was "HIV" i.e. that the UK's government-run National Health Service infected patients as young as 8 years old with HIV.

This change was not gratuitous as it added essential context to the story.

I have checked the Hacker News guidelines and since the article dispels myths people have about health systems, I felt it was pertinent.

Check this out for some meta stuff on the possible link between mobile phones and acoustic neuroma https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu... Anecdotally - doctors believe it may be a cause, scientists don't

They aren’t. Nice bit of local history for Americans though!

Sorry, got confused.

Makes sense. I didn't even think about how real test pilots might react after the explosion. Guess it would have been too cold for general viewing. The grandparent comment would have found it even more unbelievable I guess.

I don't dispute that the film fudged reality to get to a more relatable emotional truth - I actually like that kind of thing.

I absolutely loved the film and thought it was an incredible piece of art and a piercingly realistic depiction of a certain VERY REAL type of masculinity. You're lucky that you find it unbelievable / overdramatic.

Anyway, when I was a kid I used to love seeing those burnt capsules in the Science Museum in London. So crazy to see the story rendered to beautifully, along with the politics, the oxygen fires, the bouncing off the atmosphere... I couldn't have asked for anything more.

I thought his portrayal was a realistic vision of the pitfalls of masculinity, and not melodramatic at all. My dad's like that, except he smiles instead of having the blank Gosling face. My dad didn't cry even at his own mother's funeral.

Seeing Gosling/Armstrong closing up the notebooks where he'd been trying to figure out how to cure his daughter's brain cancer, seeing him cover his face to cry silently, seeing him snap at his friend "Do you think I left there because I wanted to talk?", his fear of his emotions... It was just so true to life. I cried multiple times in that film. Of course films are always a bit romanticised - I have to say at no point was the illusion broken for me.

I think that film gets into my top 3 films along with Gattaca and The Matrix.

I love Drive but it was really Blade Runner 2049 that made me realise that his "silent" roles are actually a deceptively simple comment of the state of masculinity, kind of like American Psycho (film > book IMO - interestingly the screenwriter of the film was a woman and the directory of the film was a woman, and the film & book are a critique of that version of masculinity).

Also Ryan's performance in The Big Short made me realise that he is CHOOSING to do his "silent" stuff when he does. He's a very talented actor.

Apologies. I was unthinkingly trying to condense the sentence from the article into the character limit for HN titles

Thanks for the addition to the discussion. Just wondering - was a family member in the room when you were circumcised? I’m just trying to figure out if the report of you sleeping through the circumcision was initially given by a doctor/nurse and then repeated by family, or if a family member witnessed it firsthand. (Simply because, anecdotally, even when the baby has screamed their head off, the doctor/nurse will tell the parents that they slept through it, so as not to distress the parents)

I’ve also heard the hypothesis that babies will go into shock much earlier than adults and will therefore be silent, or start choking / having a seizure silently, during traumatic surgery.