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So, maybe the title is something like:

  Warm Hugs For the Uncanny Valley And Other CGI Oddities

http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-first/

And to return to the original subject at hand, compare Facebook (right now, today) to React's general website and documentation facelift. The comparison turns out to be surprisingly different in quality. (hint: facebook rates lower)

Nevermind whether or not one agrees or disagrees with the all-encompassing nature of Facebook's grip on so many social circles, or whether one has an opinion about Facebook's policies and business practices, the website itself is pretty bad. Bad enough that, had I my druthers, I'd be able to create something that out-competes it, if a creation I put forward could clear the sheer gravitational inertia of the network effect that Facebook enjoys. And I realize that's no small claim, but here I am making it anyway.

It's not your fault, specifically that shit sucks on Facebook all over, and I sincerely doubt you'd have the clout necessary to enact change.

Since it'd be a lot to write up, and this is simply yet another peanut gallery web forum, I'll say this much: as a user, I am clueless about the decision tree I'm offered when I log into Facebook, furthermore, so much of Facebook is mystery meat links and who knows why I see half of any of it. Then as soon as a snippet of user-created content appears, it's buried. Go in to check the settings to see what the hell this system is trying to do for me, and I see trashy icons leading to incomplete features that don't even work as advertised, and I never get what I want, when used as directed. After about 30 some-odd clicks per any given session, and maybe 100 sessions of trying and retrying various combinations from a clean cookie, learned helplessness kicks in, I shut down my computer and find something better to do.

BTW, this cuts across several assets and UI's throughout Facebook's offerings as a whole, for all devices.

I'm just one guy with an opinion, but I strongly disagree that Facebook is a model example of a complex website. Facebook is blessed with a money hose, that ultimately washes away so many other problems, meanwhile provided that Facebook is not a network hardware and CDN company, I'd contest that if that's what they wind up bragging about, incidentally, then that's clearly a hint that they've gotten their core offerings wrong.

Yes, Facebook started as a PHP garbage pile, and now it's got more going on, but the surface UX of Facebook remains a garbage pile, whether it's a fast garbage pile in terms of line speed, or a photo-realistic representation of a virtual garbage pile.

If I can get consistent browsing results, productive interactions, and notice a presentable style and appearance on a React documentation website, which is a wholly-owned property of Facebook, then why isn't the flagship Facebook system provided to end-users with the same nuanced attention to detail?

...and yet, I go and try to use Facebook, and the experience is totally fucking repellent.

Even in a closed third-party testing loop, when you control for social variables and human factors, by populating your circle with only fake test accounts you control and have created yourself, for which no one else has the password. (e.g. staging a hypothetical sequence of events, to model an expected experience)

Just trying to do anything is met with the most bizarre and byzantine behaviors and switcheroos.

Namely:

  1. artificial social heirarchy
  2. magical thinking
  3. group think
  4. rules without reason

When you take apart any given religion, and inspect individual parts, and place those parts within the context of a small, insular village, dispossessed of plumbing, medicine or indoor heating, any single part starts to make sense. But many are far, far away from that, and need not invest in superstition.

Morality is great, but in some cases morality without purpose translates to overbearing fear imposed with motive.

Mythology and folklore are good for illustrating practical principles and relationships between ideas, but some people refuse to consider whether the ant and the grasshopper never actually happened.

All this taken together, often tips the scales toward cognitive dissonance for some who think too deeply about bald facts. I don't have a solution to fix this, but I've seen what happens when smart people try to reimagine a modern religion that might fit current scenarios, and it's usually equally terrible.

Someone will eventually figure this modern community rationale problem out, but it's not something you can just fake or make up for its own sake. It's something that needs to (seem to) happen organically, on its own, and remain authentic. Sounds pretty difficult if you ask me.

  “YOU LET PEOPLE SIGN CONSENT FORMS IN 
   PENCIL, HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY THAT?!”

Knowing this, the pencil signature actually protects the patient more than the institution, since the patient could theoretically forge a revocation of consent by erasing their mark. Meanwhile, ink isn't as binding, without some sort of objective third-party official (e.g. a notary public, beholden neither to patient nor to institution) serving as formal witness, further validating a non-forgery, in the case of a simple 'X' or erasure thereof.

In practical terms, one solution to render the pencil signature binding would be to create a tamper-evident photocopy, with fraud-marks like a UUID moire pattern sprayed by an ordinary desktop printer, for each serialized document, readily detectable in the photocopy but permanently printed into the background of the form (e.g. yes, this is a photocopy of the same piece of paper, and the forger failed to notice the lightly tinted pattern, when erasing their signature), and retain the pencil copy, to ensure a match. In the event of an erasure, the paper might show an abrasion, and the photocopy would act as a snapshot/backup.

Meanwhile, it should be possible to access existing, archived, historical questionnaires and actual clinical diagnoses from normal records, in a de-identified fashion, and compare results, no?

Am I misunderstanding the goal of the study? Didn't he want to compare the assessment of the survey, with actual patient dispositions, and leave the rest of all treatment untouched, undisturbed and otherwise normal? Ask the questions, do the rest, same as ever, but analyze the opinion formed by the score of the answers to the questions, with the opinion of the professional caregiver beyond the scope of the simple Q&A exam?

When I'm met with periodic expiration, I employ constant direct password assistance as a means of unpopular two-factor authentication, to piss people off, and stir the pot.

I then fail my password reset as many times as necessary to recover my preferred password for that system, to enforce to freedom of password selection.

I control my password. Me.

Not you. Me.

  everyone that uses a telephone API

Most people do not intuitively consider a body suspended in space as a constituency of atoms, with subatomic particles operating in static, yet relativistic motion about a nucleus of protons and the like, subject to such curvatures.

This is where the fundamental shift in teaching the conceptual principles of gravitation and motion need to occur.

Whether it's intuitive or not, one needs to lift away from the concept of the stone moving from point A to point B, and instead, think in terms of a collective glob of photons and other particles being subjected to the same warping of paths that affects the paths of photons, when they transit too close to the sun's gravity well.

  as a result of the curvature of spacetime

An abstract gradation of some property alone doesn't necessarily provoke further side effects, so why would gravity (this curvature of spacetime) set objects in motion?

If you have an undisturbed system of cold stones suspended in a void, that are otherwise motionless over time, and then place a strong, cold, static gravity well in proximity, what impels the stones into the curvature? Why does an otherwise motionless stone move into the curvature of said given gravity well at all?

From the abstract:

  based on the assumption that brain 
  resources are subjected to the physical 
  principle of conservation of energy

Compare to steroid abuse in athletes, resulting in a statistically significant shortening of lifespan.

Taken to extremes, if any given POG collector suddenly went bankrupt, due to a crash in values in the POG collector's price guide, how many people are associated with a particular POG collector? Would they notice, when that POG collector's business failed, because of an inability to meet obligations, now that all POG collections are worthless?

If banks and businesses accept The POG as legal tender, how many transactions disappear with the POG craze, leaving them unpaid, or stuck holding worthless assets?

I'm not sure if it's comedic or tragic that the version so very many users would want most, is not only the version with the worst name, but also the version Microsoft discourages people from adopting.

Critical patch support, infrequent updates, and excludes crufty bloatware. What's not to like?

While a non-functional LEGO version of something the resembles a experimental equipment might be fun for some people, none of these things are actually particle detectors.

  People regularly perform backups of their mind. In the 
  case of death or injury or illness, a new body is grown 
  and their backup is restored into a new body.

  and their backup is restored into a new body.

What a relief, to know that something that looks like you, can keep listening to your favorite bands, wearing your clothes, eating the same favorite foods, and having the same opinions about the world after you die.

Me? If I had a brain back-up, and they could grow a copy of my body in a vat... Why, I'd just run around fighting lions with my bare hands, and wrestling hungry sharks in the ocean. Who cares if I get completely eaten and digested?

The new copy can pick up where I left off, and just beat up whichever animal ate me!

Most search results point to a miniscule wattage delivered by typical ultrasonic noises, but controlling for wattage, I feel like it might be possible to overdrive a high-frequency pulse to deliver more wattage in the same range.

Also, relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

Gold is an obvious target, but there are probably larger quantities of other valuable metals to be had from recently accumulated trash.

  Don't worry, all the car makers with 
  whom we spoke assured us that you 
  probably won't be killed by hackers, 
  and antivirus companies have patched 
  up vulnerabilities revealed in the 
  Vault 7 documents.