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Basically anyone who washes their hands frequently (ie all medical personnel, food handlers, etc.) or does manual work with ungloved hands (including home gardening) can later in l…

Very true! But it's a lot warmer and the day/night seasonal change is not so extreme.

I'm told (by tax specialists) that nowadays the situation is that you pay the taxes in whichever country has the higher taxation rate, but nothing in the other country. That will b…

In 1999 I was earning $135k from a US-based job while I lived in Italy. Thanks to the tax treaty, I did not pay US income tax on the first $85k of that, but I paid Italy for it. I …

Ah, but the weather... yes, I know it doesn't rain as much as people think (I've been there at all times of year) but it is awfully dark for awfully many hours in the winter.

Both of us had good-to-great health insurance in the US thanks to our employers. But there's the rub: it's tied to employment, and if you lose your job for any reason, you either d…

Having met a number of Netflix employees (and knowing one extremely well), I don't think this is actually true. YMMV.

Sexist, homophobic, etc. speech or behavior is less and less tolerated in most serious office environments, not least because it opens up a company to harassment lawsuits. That bei…

Forcing adults who would automatically think "trucks for boys, dolls for girls" to think about their choices is, in itself, valuable. As a child I was given dolls because I was a g…

If the child is too young to express a preference, you don't need to choose between (eg) dolls or trucks - baby toys need to be primarily something that can't hurt the baby. If the…

For those who missed today's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9121015 because it got downvoted (wrongly) for being a duplicate: accompanying blog post and video now availa…

The previous discussion refers to the slideshare and did not include the new blog post and video.

For those wondering "Who is this guy?" - you can look up his engineering qualifications and contributions elsewhere. My experience of him personally, in two years spent looking acr…

LOL. Exactly. When you don't have any good response based on the merits of the argument, attack the presentation. This tactic is very familiar to those of us who call out sexism or…

There was a good deal of discussion about this in an earlier thread about the slide deck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7291877

Video now available: http://www.joyent.com/blog/what-linux-can-learn-from-solaris...