Thank you for taking the time to read all that! You are right, of course. It is something of an unsolved problem with the design. The question of "exactly what work are these draftees contributing?" is something I'm still working on; it may not literally be core parenting or teaching work, but actually more like e.g. hanging out with your cool uncle on the weekend who helps you learn life lessons. Maybe said uncle isn't exactly teaching or parenting material, but he still has something to contribute to building a child's character, and is assisting the parents just by being around to lighten the load. The Big Brothers Big Sisters charity seems to indicate that this is a sound principle with incredible ROI.

There would also be mandatory training to teach people the skills needed to do this work (critical to figure out what goes in there.) Also I'd like to hope that the system would "even out" over a few generations; if we assume the root cause of dangerous personalities like BPD or NPD is being trapped (or in an echo chamber) with a toxic parent figure, the practice of this "socialized parenting" is essentially guaranteeing kids have alternative support networks that can soak some of those traumas. Efficiency would never reach 100%, of course (does it ever?) and there would always be some difficult people for whom alternative credit would need to be devised, but in any substantial system there's always other work to do—maybe a truly broken person contributes by grading homework or something.

If the problem was misconfigured encryption, wouldn't it have affected communication both ways? The Integrity crew could hear the rescue team, but not the other way around. Look, I have no experience with these radios, so someone who does, please clarify. I have no doubt that everyone trained on these radios (satphones?) and tested them. Be interesting to find out what happened.

In general, I found this mission to be somewhat more -- well, "chill" -- than others. Mostly plain language on technical matters was exchanged between Integrity and the Capcoms instead of lots of jargon. The lunar-terrain observations were amusing because the astronauts obviously trained thoroughly for the task, but it seemed that there was a significant focus on everyone "taking turns" at the windows. It's as though the mission was trying to project a relatable image for the public.

And also a scale of warfare orders of magnitude beyond any other species.

Except for the tactical radio failure after they landed, where they had to relay comms to Houston and back out to sea because the rescue team couldn't hear them. That was pure comedy gold. When I heard the words "Did you press the push-to-talk button," I wept with joy.

No idea what the actual problem was — probably some encrypted communication misconfiguration, channel misconfiguration, stealth mode setting, bad PTT button, or other similar weirdness. And of course, the internal clocks would have drifted by probably several hundred microseconds over the course of the mission because of time dilation, so in the unlikely event that they're using encryption that is ridiculously timing-sensitive, that could also be an issue, but that seems unlikely.

Strong reason to use plain VHF radios if they aren't already.

Anyway, I'll be curious to hear the postmortem on that one.

It's not the ones we like it's the ones that will let our Epstein class have the countries banana reserves.

You can just say openly that you're an edgy, racist teenager. It's fine; the first step to self-improvement is admitting that you need help.

It seems the pressing the key actually generates Win+Shift+F23... and also function as a Right Ctrl modifier at the same time? It may or may not function normally if you're outside of Windows.

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Breakups that divide users into multiple pools will just result in immediate user consolidation.

Breakups by product will result in exactly the same amount of competition that we have now, because the various parts of Facebook don't really compete with each other meaningfully, and wouldn't compete meaningfully even if they were owned by different companies. They have mostly disjoint user bases, i.e. most people either use Insta or FB exclusively or at most auto-crosspost from one to the other, but still basically use only one. And users would just keep using the one that they use, and the only difference would be a slight reduction in communication, or people adopting a third-party posting tool that posts to both, neither of which would cause one to steal users from the other in either direction.

The *only* way to solve this is through mandating that all social networks with more than a certain number of users provide federation to other similar social networks using a public API, requiring published interoperability specs for all new features (along with a published interoperability test suite), requiring that the social networks publish a list of criteria for federation, mandating compliance with reasonableness standards that govern what those criteria can include, and mandating that the social networks enable federation for any social network that meets their published criteria, without any further discrimination.

Once you do that, the network effects cease to be important, and you have a functioning free market, where anyone can build a Facebook-like site with its own interface, where users on that new site can share things with Facebook users and vice versa, and so on.

Trump made this completely different. This isn't France trying to get a better deal from Microsoft like usual. America can no longer be trusted.

Donald Trump has a giant list of reasons why he never should have been president once let alone twice. It's so bad I'm not even going to waste time listing the points out here.

And somehow he is still rocking a 35 to 40% approval rating.

America is completely insane. You cannot rely on us anymore and you absolutely cannot have critical infrastructure dependent on america. Software is critical infrastructure.

Under normal circumstances every single American software company would be freaking the fuck out right now because they are about to get frozen out of Europe. But because everything is owned by a handful of billionaires and those billionaires are going to make out like bandits no matter what that's not happening.

If you're American you need to come to terms with the idea that the system is designed to protect you have completely broken down and that 35 to 40% of the country can drag you down with them.

That said I have no idea what the hell you do about that.

And remember it's not just Trump it's that 35 to 40% who saw their grocery bills skyrocket and gas shoot up a dollar a gallon and somehow blamed Joe Biden for it. That level of insanity is something that you have to address head on.

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Your lack of reading comprehension is astounding. Let me say this slowly again. 1) How does Apple work with Google RCS extensions WHICH WERE NOT PART OF UNIVERSAL PROFILE 1.0? You have never answered that question. Members of the GSMA: "Fallback to MMS". You: "I don't have any answers but Apple should have done it."

2) How does Apple decrypt E2EE messages in the Signal Protocol. Your article says starting that in Universal Profile 3.0 (released in 2025), "GSMA is officially supporting end-to-end encryption via RCS messaging". It says supporting E2EE in general; it does not say it supports Google's version of E2EE which is based on Signal. And AGAIN, Google's version is not compatible with the Signal app itself. It's not compatible with other versions of RCS like Samsung, Jio, +Message,, etc.. As of 4.0 released in 2026, GSMA still has not solved the EXACT problem of interoperability between Google RCS and iMessage.

Every single chip maker has chips with defects. Every single one. Apple is using a binned chips instead of throwing them away. If Apple threw away these 5 core GPU chips, you would call Apple wasteful. There is no winning with you is either. You will complain about everything and anything Apple does.

Yes 5 core GPU is the listed specification of the Neo. And what would do if you have more orders for Neos than iPhone 16s? Just not sell any more Neos.

WTF are you talking about? Apple pays TSMC full price for the wafers. Some of chips had defects which meant they had 5 GPU cores rather than 6 cores. They simply cannot use these chips in an iPhone 16. The only option is to throw away all these chips.

Dude, what are you talking about? The alternative is throw these chips away rather than use them. You do know every single chip maker has binned chips right? You do know what a AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D is, right? It is a binned AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. AMD sold these limited quantity chips at the end of the Ryzen 5800X3D run. Once AMD were out of stock, they were out of stock.

Again, WTF are you talking about? TSMC makes whatever companies are willing to pay them to make. Right now there is a huge back order of OTHER customers who have booked product on those exact nodes years in advance. TSMC will certainly make more A18 Pros if they have the capacity just like they will make more AMD Ryzens.

I'm not, but I know some, so I know some of the tricks. Like when you know a lawyer so you find out what to say during a traffic stop so they don't tear your car apart.

The best deal I ever got on a used car at a dealership was achieved using strategies that are claimed not to work.

I arrived towards closing time at the dealership and, having satisfied myself that the car was suitable, I just sat there saying the price was too much. They kept coming down in price and I got a great deal on the car, when everyone wanted to go home.

I didn't lie.

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1) Either really will stoop to that level of dishonesty or you have no idea what Google RCS was all about. E2EE was a defining feature of Google RCS that distinguished it from Universal profile. To call it a "hobby horse" says you either know nothing about this topic or you are willing to lie about the importance of it.

2) Do you understand what OTHER FEATURES means? E2EE was one of many features in Google RCS that is not defined in Universal Profile nor did the specification spell many ways to handle any of the extensions Google added. Except the one method used by device that used incompatible RCS versions: Fallback to MMS.

3) You still haven't addressed the basic question of Apple was supposed to decrypt Google's implementation of the Signal protocol that no one else used.

Even today, not all Android phones use Google RCS especially those that use GrapheneOS or LineageOS. Did you know that?

And what would that accomplish again? When all these Android devices had incompatible versions of RCS, did they default to Universal Profile 1.0 when messaging each other? No. They all defaulted to MMS. So Apple would implement another incompatible version that no one used that did not have many features . . . Or Apple could default to MMS like everyone else.

You are asking Apple to support people who are not their customers. Why again? Do you ask Toyota why they don't use the same tires on the Camry that Honda uses for the Accord? That's how stupid your request is. I do not know how to say in any other way so you can understand: THE FALLBACK FOR MESSAGING IS MMS. For decades.

Apple has made Universal Profile 2.4 happen. Full Google RCS compatibility has not happened yet. The GSMA announced in March 2026 the release of RCS 4.0 specification which addresses rich text and videos enhancements. They have not solve the problem of E2EE compatibility. Did you know that either?