I made a quick demo of how the UI "representation" given out by Hawaii emergency management officials

http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-distributed-phony-im...

might work.

and POWER6, PowerPC 970MP, 7447A, and 7450 fail. PowerPC 7447B is maybe a fail.

They did experiment with that in fact:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/187042840

I think big tech companies are perfectly aware of how people react to their actions.

In fact, do they not study reactions in order to maximize the amount of time spent on their platforms?

> may not be algorithmically optimal, but better meet the needs of the community

Yeah, that sounds a bit like a blank check for someone to corrupt the generated output under the guise of a nebulous "It's better for our community" while scaremongering about the big bad algorithm.

Corruption could happen in any case, but I still agree with having human oversight [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

She is only asked about it in the last question, and mentions a New York City politician wanting open source algorithms:

> Algorithms make decisions all through his borough, the East Bronx, including where children go to school, where police patrols are assigned, and the schedule for garbage pickup.

Which seems a bit bizarre, open source algorithms would be nice, but the tie in to 'the humanities' seems tenuous at best.

Agreed, I will take the wide-screen ratio god intended (16:10) any day of the week over 16:9.

> Once that has been determined, designed, and goes into production, we start on firmware.

So you use coreboot. Right? Because if you don't, where is this firmware development going on?

I think it is probably:

* a guarantee, and support for running Linux * UK-based customer support, rather than ROC/Taiwan-based * maybe component selection that avoids certain hardware with bad drivers?

Although as someone mentioned below, they are rebranded Clevo machines, and really were designed to run Windows first. Station X is just offering a guarantee that they will run Linux properly.

Be reminded that by looking at the outside you do not know what's inside.