Most packages don't become unsafe just because they were released a week ago.

JS as a language is part of the problem because the standard library is so minimal that people need to use a lot more 3rd party libraries than they would in most popular languages.

Windows is a small part of their revenue on purpose, because the OS monopoly enables them to sell and push a lot of their other revenue streams. Windows has always been easy to pirate for the same reason.

But make no mistake, it is very important for Microsoft and leadership, or they wouldn't keep updating it so much and talking about it so much on their keynotes and marketing.

Funny how the start of your scale, 1200 Elo, is essentially what I have as a goal and am not even close yet, lol.

I'm old enough to remember people in Iraq cheering for the fall of Saddam. Didn't make it great.

There was a large scale self-reported study in November of 2024. It was actually way over 30%, if you ignore non-respondents.

Let's see it - Sounds like it would be easy to find?

That was 2014, there have been multiple elections since then, with multiple winners and international observers.

Yes, there were elections where at most only 18M people voted, compared to the 24M people that voted when the pro-Russian candidate won, in 2010. Because there were almost no ballot station in those regions leaning more towards Russia. Yet the government didn't think that was a problem at all; in fact, it was good for them (imagine if Trump could just make that people in some blue states couldn't vote). All this in a climate with banned parties and where all the media was controlled by the "Maidan" parties.

So it doesn't look the situation in Ukraine was very democratic either.

Libya was a UN Security Council resolution, doesn't get any more legit than that.

How is that a technical hurdle if they obviously were able to do it before?

It's probably just a question of cost/benefit analysis, it's very expensive to do, so the benefits need to be significant.

You're describing planned and unplanned economies, which aligns somewhat with capitalism and state communism but is not the defining feature of them.

The main difference is ownership of the means of production/companies by the workers or by a separate group that might not work at the company at all.