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There are babashka and GraalVM as alternative backends for Clojure, who aim to be much lighter than JVM.

Kakoune doesn't have exactly a plugin system, but a module one. There are however various plugin managers.

Its customisation is obtained by exposing an interface to the shell with various parts of its functionality.

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Why does this website have nothing on Russia or China?

I'd recommend Dani Rodrik's Economics Rules that gives you a view of how economists work, what are their limitations and what is their skillset.

I'll try to answer your question through the lens of that book: the models that economists develop work under the models assumptions, and therefore they quite rarely fit well extremely complex phenomena like inflation; in general, economists treat the problems they face on a case per case basis by comparing different models outcomes', looking at the historical data, discussing the merits of the respective arguments for one or the other policy, and obviously depending on the specific goals you find more desirable (equality vs growth for example). The way the economy is ran is not necessarily representative of the economists consensus, or even that of the economists that are employed by the biggest policymakers, as the policies chosen might be the ones deemed more politically feasible, or more desirable for the particular politician's interests, and not the ones that are economically most sound and well-founded.

By the way, a topic I've been always fascinated by but never inquired further is that of social choice, wherein the economists analyse the incentives of classes such as that of policymakers.

But even this way, apple devices have by far the longest lifetimes, macs, iphones will have 2-3 owners easily - so is it really fair to call them out, or is it just baseless emotional reaction?

I would dispute this claim, e.g. Apple settles iPhone slowdown case for $500m[1], just the first link I found looking for "planned obsolescence apple" on DuckDuckGo. This is not exclusive to their iPhones as one can find with a quick search.

[1][https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51706635]

And you're seriously oversimplifying the situation, lacking in depth knowledge on the topic. Following the news, given the often precarious state of journalism, is not enough to have a "contrarian" (actually mainstream) opinion.