Anything unreasonable or unfavorable here?
This is not about building an ecosystem or changing the world, it is simply about building a miner based around the best suggestions/ideas presented here. Nor are the plans for said miner to be mass produced per se which removes the need for most of the Corporate overhead you call for.
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I mean, "design , prototype, test and deploy cycles under quality control and management supervision"? The final design is not up to a vote, it is up to the head of the project, Sidehack. Period.
Folks behind this thread have seen previous hardware projects fail and fall apart precisely because of the design-by-committee approach and worse yet -- direct investor input/pressure from folks with little to no skills on the technical matters they are pushing their wants/idea for -- that you are advocating.
design-by-committee is great, sharing knowledge and expertise is great and having a reference guy in charge is great too, I see no contradiction and divergence here ... Folks behind this thread have seen previous hardware projects fail and fall apart precisely because of the design-by-committee approach and worse yet -- direct investor input/pressure from folks with little to no skills on the technical matters they are pushing their wants/idea for -- that you are advocating.
'direct investor input/pressure' is of little concern here, nobody comes to invest in a sidehack project to push him out of rail, it is absurd. people should have a voice about most strategic decisions (like one you have made by your own about not to mass produce the product) this is it! nothing more, nobody is interested in details and everybody is concerned and has a right to be concerned about the strategy
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I for one am all for the Lone Ranger (cowboy) approach. Then again, like Sidehack I am one as well (though my biz is industrial lasers).
me too 
seriously, people who know me being asked about the one lone ranger in the world, without a second hesitation will introduce me as #1 candidate.
But I am planning to retire or something like that ... mmm ... put it this way ... for this specific problem, saving and strengthening community miners to defeat the obvious centralization threat to the Blockchain from China, I'm willing to try new possibilities and opportunities risen from this technology to make a compromise
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Now, does Genius need backers to fund building/testing/implementing their ideas? Sure.
congratulations! But Why? and more importantly, HOW?