Two points:
You don't really want the date changing during the middle of the working day.
If you look up what time it is now in a particular timezone, it gives you a good indication as to whether they are going to be working / in bed asleep.

Because for some use-cases, html is good enough.

Mondex was started at around the same time in the UK, I think it was a few months after Digicash.
It wasn't sucessful, but it evolved into Mastercard contactless, which has been very successful, the difference being that the value is stored in your bank's database rather than on the card.

Flights between London and Tokyo for example often fly over the North Pole, because the most direct route over Russia is blocked at the moment.
I did that flight last year. The outbound flight headed south to Turkey, then across the Stans and China, and then north to Japan.
The return flight headed up the Pacific coast towards Alaska, then across the Arctic Ocean to Greenland, Iceland, and Scotland, then headed south to London.

I'm not a US citizen.
What I am saying is that EU government is based on the same ideas as the USA government, but implemented in a different way that actually achieves the objectives the founders of the USA tried to achieve.
Parliament elected by the people, commission elected by the states, president elected by a knowledgeable group of people who represent the people and the states.

In the US, you have the House of Representatives and the Senate.
In the EU, you have the Parliament and the Commission.

The Commission has one representative from each member country in the EU in much the same way that the Senate has two representatives from each state. The difference is that the representative is appointed by the member country government rather than via the electoral college system in the USA.

That's besides the point. If someone replaces Safari with a less secure alternative, and yes, some alternatives will be less secure; that is on them, and isn't something Apple should be policing.

You can side-load on Android. Most people don't though, possibly in part because they trust Google more than the alternatives.

30/70 is the correct number, so closer to 43%.

Actually, if this AI thing works out, I think there will be more jobs for "programmers" than there are today, and they will be focused on the more complex tasks like algorithm architecture and code review. If code becomes cheaper, more people will do coding.

They tried that with cryptography about 25 years ago. What happened is that they printed out the source code on paper, mailed it to Europe, and over there they scanned it and recompiled it. That was 1st amendment protected free speech and they couldn't block that.

Also, American cryptography algorithms weren't necessarily any better than for example Russian ones.

Over here, I would find a "not USA" directory in many FTP sites where all the cryptography stuff was stored.

Do they count deaths caused somewhere else in the city due to their cars blocking ambulances and fire trucks from getting through?

It was a lot more than just London getting bombed in WW2. It would be much easier to list the cities that weren't bombed, basically just Cambridge.

And a substantial proportion of the country was away fighting in that war. How do you arrange for them to vote, and get the votes back to the counting centres securely. How do you arrange polling stations when you don't know whether they are going to end up being a pile of rubble by election day? How do you arrange hustings/town halls with the candidates when they are going to become a military target for the enemy?

You definitely couldn't hold elections in Gaza right now.

It was an unfortunately necessary thing. You can't hold a fair election in the middle of a war zone.

Same thing happened in the UK. The 1916 election was cancelled due to WW1 and we had to wait until after the war ended in 1918.
Then the 1940 election was cancelled due to WW2 and we had to wait until 1945.

Ukrainian governments have been removed from office as a result of an election defeat. That has never happened in Russia.