“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion”

Yes, there actually is international law. It's not just for NATO, it applies to Russia and Belarus as well.

But Russia is ignoring those laws. What Russia is doing is called "war of aggression": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression

"A war of aggression, sometimes also war of conquest, is a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense, usually for territorial gain and subjugation."

I feel the same. What do you say in Slack to the guy who just told you he’s handed over his tasks to a colleague because he’s joining the territorial defenses and has to go and fight? “Good luck”? “Give ‘em hell”? “Слава Украины" is what I settled on but there’s just nothing you can say that conveys the weighty emotions of that kind of goodbye.

The very least that can be done is to not cut them loose because Russian bombardment has decreased productivity.

I’ve left behind a life and all of my possessions in Ukraine but more than that I feel like I’ve let them down since I’m living comfortably in Georgia while they suffer and could possibly die.

I’ll just do what I can to help keep the project going so we can keep supporting them. The cold reality is that a startup isn’t a charity so at some point some hard decisions need to be made, but that point isn’t five days into a war.

I'm not sure how Twitter works, but for YouTube it's not like their recommendation system is a perfect user-friendly algorithm.

While it is your choice what to click, what you end up watching is a result of the interplay between you and what is recommended to you and if the recommendation system was different, both what you click and the resulting feed would be different as well

I understand. It's unfair and hard. Business.

I have been thinking about business being business for a long time. Let me tell you a vision of a better future. I am not explaining how to get there, just what is in this future.

Business will not have changed a lot. But people! People have a lot better means of living. Most needs are covered. This changes the power relationship between people and business. Business becomes sort of a game. You can lose but it's just a game.

The main rules of this game are:

    1. follow law and mores
    2. be bound by contracts to have earnings and spendings
    3. earnings ≥ spendings

If you violate these rules for too long a time and too heavily, your business will be booted. It's a harsh game.

This rule of business has been in force already thousands of years ago. Barter superfluous stone knives against food, for example.

And today this game can have inhuman consequences as we see here.

Parent's business is trying to work around that they suddenly a team dropped out. Software stopped being delivered. As a consequence they are afraid that earnings can't be realized.

In a strategic game it's clear that something needs to be done or they get booted.

And some people today fail to see this aspect. They complain that business is greedy and inhuman. They ask that companies should be "human".

But it's my conviction that business is a worthwile and important game benefitting the society. As long as business is bound to sensible law like forbidding hurting people (for example by overworking them or exposing them to unhealthy conditions), business should be free to do business.

Therefore we shouldn't change business a lot but give people better means and therefore more power and independence.

If a business fails it's just losing a game round. This can hurt but everybody should be able to get up again and have another chance.

It's just a vision of a better future.

It is also up to Ukrainians to convince some West Europian nations that sometimes good business is not worth it. It is sad that only blood can change their perspective and each drop of it only slightly... As in an American veterans slogan - freedom is not for free... They fight for entire Europe freedom too.