For me, the main reason for the switch was to get my own domain. It’s surprisingly easy. This way, if I start to dislike the service handling my emails, I can easily switch it without changing my email address. Leaving gmail and getting somewhat more privacy is nice, but getting control was the main reason.

Thanks, that helps.

I know very little about passkeys and would like to make use of this question to ask my own. How does backing the passkeys up work? Can I just keep a backup somewhere like with a password manager database? Can I use it anywhere, even if I want to use it one time on a friend’s device, for example? If it’s tied to a device, what if I lose it? What other practical advantages and disadvantages are there?

I know these are probably naive and simple questions and I could find the answers myself, but I remeber when I was trying to find similar things out about authenticators. I didn’t want to use them until I learned how to make backups, use it on different devices, including those that are not mine etc. It took quite some time (of not that active looking, but still), most easily-found sources tend to not offer alternatives, especially when most people just use Google, Microsoft or Apple. I would very much appreciate some basic guidance from someone who has experience. I could probably ask AI, but honestly, I probably trust a kind internet stranger more.

Their freedom to do something without any significant benefit costs a lot of money for healthcare. Money I pay as taxes.

Radioactivity and chemical mutagens are normal methods of creating new traits in crops. That’s how new varieties of fruits, grains etc. are often created. Nobody knows what exactly it does on the genomic level, usually. And then people complain about modifying a specific gene by targetted tools…

They are also older than the rings of Saturn.

I think the energy metabolism of any organism would limit the amount of light you can get. I don’t believe any organism (except maybe bacteria with lots of nutrients provided) has that much energy to spare and handle without dying pretty fast.

Just to put it in perspective, here’s a joke.

Do you know what’s the difference between nazis and communists?

Communists killed more communists.

It’s funny, because it’s true.

Isn’t that what a marketplace means? Otherwise it’s an online shop?

Raising enough money to pay its employees and expand, but not the most you can without regard to anything else? Sonds like an interesting idea to explore. Or are you talking about super-dense pudding?

It would collapse on itself, unable to carry its own weight, heating up massively. I consider superheated pudding volcanos something of a downside, personally. I cannot reasonably estimate what might happen in the centre of the world, supercritical fluid doesn’t seem enough. Perhaps nanodiamond crystallisation from the organic parts of the pudding? Also lots of hydrogen release, I’d guess.

My suggestions involves only change of the legal framework. Besides, there are non-profit companies. I’m not sure about details, but for example Velux (windows manufacturer) and Carl Zeiss (optics) are supposed to be non-profits, and Anthropic could say no to the DoD because it’s some sort of not-just-for-profit company.

Thanks, that sounds very reasonable.

What would be the downside if all companies were non-profit? At first sight, it sounds like a great idea.

Nobody loves that. But there are people who love doing science, so they do it despite that.