Re: [Arm-netbook] Status update

2022-11-21 Thread Sam Huntress
> in addition there is SIGNIFICANT funds LOCKED UP in > Crowd Supply that can ONLY BE UNLOCKED by BEGINNING > SHIPPING. [Conditionally Available Funds (Conditions not yet met)] is a subset of [Money the Project Does Not Have] I'm willing to accept the assessment that tracking down those 93 card

Re: [Arm-netbook] Status update

2022-11-21 Thread Sam Huntress
My thoughts as an outside observer: It seems clear that the project is out of money and the product isn't ready. There does not seem to be any significant incompetence, ill intent, or malice at fault here. The project seems to have succumbed to the difficulties inherent in producing a niche device

Re: [Arm-netbook] [Campaign Question] USB-C is used more and more...

2018-10-15 Thread Sam Huntress
A quick note on the USB-A "rotate 3 times to insert" bit: If the device and cable are actually compliant with the standard then there is no guessing or flipping. The USB trident logo will be on the visible side of the cable when it is inserted. This doesn't help for vertically oriented USB-A connec

Re: [Arm-netbook] Urgent statement on Cryptocurrency ethics

2018-03-21 Thread Sam Huntress
Excessive power consumption by bitcoin miners is an indication that either power is undervalued, bitcoin is overvalued, or both. > On Mar 21, 2018, at 3:48 PM, KRT Listmaster wrote: > > Now the discussion is starting to get interesting > > On 03/21/2018 07:11 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leight

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-29 Thread Sam Huntress
are: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Sam Huntress > wrote: > > We all seem to be talking past each other and I fear we may have some > > confusion about what a ponzi scheme actually is. > > > > In a ponzi scheme, money is taken

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-29 Thread Sam Huntress
We all seem to be talking past each other and I fear we may have some confusion about what a ponzi scheme actually is. In a ponzi scheme, money is taken from 'investors' under the false pretense (lie) that it will be used to fund operations with a positive return on investment when actually that m

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-28 Thread Sam Huntress
uke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > --- > > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Sam Huntress > > wrote: > > >>would it not be worthwhile, do you think, to lev

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-28 Thread Sam Huntress
e making. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton < l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Sam Huntress > wrote: > > > Currently Bitcoin is an insane gold-rush bubble that is frivolous and > > wasteful but it has the

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-28 Thread Sam Huntress
Currently Bitcoin is an insane gold-rush bubble that is frivolous and wasteful but it has the potential to balance out into the secure, distributed, democratized digital currency it was designed to be and I think that is something worth spending energy on. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Julie Ma

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-28 Thread Sam Huntress
> if people published their private wallet addresses then yes. No. The entire point of public/private key pairs is that you can prove you own the pair without revealing the private key. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/58792/proof-of-address-ownership We can use the bitcoin ledger (bloc

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 / Libre RISC-V team financing

2017-12-27 Thread Sam Huntress
>> Look at how many similar schemes, offering no proof of actual mining, >> exist right now. This is not going to end well. > > I have to second this opinion. Luke, doing *nothing* and losing the > funds honorably would easily be preferable over trying to do *any* kind My understanding of bitc