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If you really want to harm the Putinists, insert an overseas jobs listing link when a Russian IP is detected. Encouraging brain drain is likely the most effect
by KMag 5y ago
If you really want to harm the Putinists, insert an overseas jobs listing link when a Russian IP is detected. Encouraging brain drain is likely the most effective way the tech community can harm the regime. Welcome a Russian, make a friend, maybe drain the regime.
I see too high a ratio of sticks to carrots these days, but maybe that's just me.
Edit: I just finished 10 years overseas, and occasionally caught flak for US policies that I disagree with. I'm rather sympathetic to (would-be) expats in general.
Edit 2: I spent an extended period in Kyiv, and it really was wonderful city. I found the Ukrainians to be generally kind, but a bit distant, not a warm sort of friendliness. (Though, I look Slavic enough that I was regularly mistaken for Russian when I was in Turkey. I'm sure that helped my experience in Ukraine.) If I could have lived in Kyiv at my current salary, I would have done so (without foresight of this war). I'm really rooting against the Putinists, but I feel sympathy for the common Russian, even those who swallow the propaganda.