pumpkinprog

No problem at all. See Russian example. 10 years ago it was 50/50% Visa/Mastercard on the Russian market. Today it is like 30/30/30 Mir/Visa/MC (Mir is the national payment system). And even those 60% are not "real" Visa/MC, since they are being processed through a centralized platform, owned by the Russian Central Bank. For example, it helped to save all the cards in working condition when Visa/MC exited Russia

> is this structured as a pure research company owned by JetBrains or as something else

They mostly collaborate with independent university labs, giving them funding in exchage for working under the JBR brand and promoting some of their products (like Kotlin language).

They analyzed the stock performance of the companies with a presence in Russia from Feb 23 to Apr 19 and got this:

> Clearly, global capital flows across financial markets demonstrate the importance investors attribute to the decision to withdraw from Russia. Capital allocators clearly and unequivocally believe the risks associated with remaining in Russia at a time when nearly 1,000 major global corporations have exited far outweigh the costs of exiting Russia.

But IMO it is interesting how it will work out in the middle- or long- term, when the actual losses of withdrawal will become clear. This research only shows short-term results

> just bring out the Panama papers

This way they will find out 10x more interesting things about their own "honorable businessmen" too thus nobody will ever do this

Microsoft Teams.

One of the worst (laggy, buggy, slow, bad UI, etc.) peaces of software I used ever, combined with aggressive promotion by M$. Moreover, I have to use this crap at work every day, since my employer bought a license, which makes things even worse.

That is how all the censorship stories start. In the beginning, you censor several "reasonable" resources, and after a while, you get the Great Western Firewall. For example, Russia introduced Internet censorship laws in 2012 with the excuse of blocking some Caucasus terrorist groups' websites and "protecting children". In 2022 it is nearly impossible to surf the net as usual without a VPN.

As it said in the article, the backstory of this move is that DigiCert revoked SSL certificates of some major Russian banks that come under the US sanctions, including their Central Bank (the Russian Fed). And all their sites, remote banking, 3-D secure pages went down for some time immediately. IMO it is a pretty understandable move for the Russians as a national security measure not to depend on some random American companies switching off Russian critical infrastructure.

Read sources with different points of view and take the average. Pretty easy with the Russia-Ukraine situation, just take 2 western or Ukrainian news sources, 2 Russian and 2 relatively unrelated (China, Africa, etc.) Same with elections (2 Dems, 2 Reps, 2-3 unrelated international). Much more difficult with COVID since nearly everybody has the same point of view, and the remaining ones are marginal. IMO, in such a situation the best option to get the truth is to wait for 2-5 years after it is finished.

Strongly agree. In some countries (for example, most of Eastern Europe), formal CS education is compatible with a full-time developer job during masters and even the last years of bachelor's studies. Therefore, some highly motivated guys can get 2-4 years of production experience upon graduation. Paying them a minimum wage is a great idea to distract talents!