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microkernel, that's good. i know of redox, minix also use microkernel but did not 'take off'

My fault, I misread the last sentence of your post. I thought you were comparing skill set

Have had coworkers in USA and Ukraine. I didn't notice a difference

what does the dosimeter say?

I've been exposed more to pipeline automation than GPT4, like argoCI/CD, and can see that taking away a lot of jobs. If customers are connected to the code repository then developers just need to push commits and argo will take care of the rest, including getting the latest code to the customer.

*This may be a bit of an oversimplification, but argo showed me that the whole pipeline can be automated

Both Russia and Israel are occupying other countries.

Russia needs to return to it's 1991 borders Israel needs to return to it's 1947 borders

I contract through my own company. It's a common system in Ukraine to own your own company, because taxes are less if you do business through companies. -- sorry if i explained it poorly. I said that I was a contractor also to say that there are no other benefits that I am getting from employment.

when i die i pray to be reborn as a ukrainian

70-80% is incorrect, it's more like 40%. I made 22kUSD last year in Kiev. I think my colleague on same team in USA was making 65kUSD. Not SWE, just comparing numbers. I was also paid more than the average for my position/geography. I was a contractor, as was all of the UA team....don't know what coworkers arrangement was...

1/3 of the cost, at least in Kiev. I assume there are some laws preventing more than X% of company offshore