Nope, I'd still hire them and this tells me the ecosystem is dealing with a threat in an appropriate way. Russia citizens have given up their right to play with the rest of the tech world. The fact that this is a silly way to do it doesn't change that In 2022 I'm having to explain that if your citizens are cheering you on as you invade a sovereign nation while indiscriminately killing civilian you will face some reprocussians from those of us who have said enough is enough.
Anything short of literally killing Russians, including a embargo is fair game.
Disagree? Go explain it to the Ukrainian father burying his daughter. I don't want to hear it.
Stop thinking in terms of abstractions (countries, nations, sovereignty, citizenry) and think in terms of people. People born into, living in the area of the Earth currently called Russia. Those people, each the equal of yourself, are what you call harm upon. It serves absolutely no purpose. What, you want everyday life to become so unpleasant for people that they take a flyer on a violent revolution to overthrow their government? You wish for them to plunge their country into civil war? And you cover this call to purposeless cruelty with emotional garbage about fathers burying daughters.
This idea that since some people in a country support its foreign misadventures they're fair game is the exact same reasoning employed by Osama bin Laden in his infamous Letter to America: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
> And you cover this call to purposeless cruelty with emotional garbage about fathers burying daughters.
On top of that, if there is anybody on the planet I would even entertain that kind of argument/"activism" from, it would definitely not be somebody from the US.
Regardless of whether I agree with you or not: his shitty method for identifying Russian computers would also target some IP addresses in Eastern Europe outside of Russia and Belarus.
You can look at my comment history. I'm a Russian and vehemently against the war and what Putin has been doing for decades. I'm unlucky to still remain in Russia for a number of personal reasons. Should my life's work be deleted because I'm unlucky to still be in Russia? Software developers in Russia are probably the group least likely to support the War or Putin, by the virtue of their familiarity with English and the west. While such software weapon of mass destruction could case real damage to civilians, cause suicides because their life's work has been erased. Attacking civilians is not unlike what Putin is doing in Ukraine. Indefensible.
Anything short of literally killing Russians, including a embargo is fair game.
Disagree? Go explain it to the Ukrainian father burying his daughter. I don't want to hear it.