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> But I suspect the "can code" privilege beats the "passport" privilege. It doesn't and it's not even close. Millions of Russians have left the country in prot
by Andrew_nenakhov 2y ago
> But I suspect the "can code" privilege beats the "passport" privilege.
It doesn't and it's not even close. Millions of Russians have left the country in protest of Putin's little victorious war. Many of them are very adept at coding, and no, almost all of them face severe problems of every kind (banking, visas, residency, air flights, etc) because of the wrong color of their passports. And for people from non-European countries it is even worse.
- ben_w 2y agoIt would be selection bias to point out that none of the Russians I've worked with mentioned any such problems. Even of the non-Europeans, only the Nigerian mentioned an issue. Oh, just realised I forgot about the Mexicans, Brazilians, and Argentinian in the previous list. A completely unrelated Russian has mentioned that his parents had to explain to the Russian conscription department that he wasn't in the country, but that's as close as it gets. Still, like I said, selection bias. I can only see the ones who could get out.