I am surprised that the quickshot/compact cameras are still sold. Cell phone cameras have advanced so much that I cant imagine a use for a compact camera. My most recent phone has a optical zoom in addition to a digital, and seems to have all the features of a compact camera. Its only when you step into Interchangeable Lens Cameras that you flesh out how inferior a cellphone or quickshot are.

My 14 year old Canon G10 outshines my iPhone 11Pro in a wide number of areas. Thing is, you won't notice most of them unless you're actually semi-serious about photography - and when you are, you rapidly find out how limited a phone camera really is.
 
Not the least in it's awkward controls designed for the least-common-denominator. There's many things that are much more difficult on a modern cell phone than on a horse-drawn compact/bridge camera. There are a few things (such as proper HDR) that are basically impossible on a cell phone. (At least without spending a fair chunk of change on the appropriate app...)
 
Sure, there's a lot of people doing damm good work with cell phones that are "good enough" (say, 90% there)... But there's still a (diminishing) market for that remaining 10%.

But the undertaking was proving far more difficult than Branson anticipated.

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of engineering and history already knew what Branson is learning the hard way... Scaling up from a bare-bones subscale proof-of-concept demonstrator to a fully operational vehicle is hard.

Financially Musk put a lot on the line for SpaceX, most CEO's probably wouldn't have put in that much risk.

Horseshit. Or at best, irrelevant.
 
The only reason SpaceX isn't bankrupt is that it got the Commercial Cargo from NASA. (This according to Musk himself.) With that contract in hand he was able to raise enough money to actually turn SpaceX into a going concern.
 

Bazos got lucky with Amazon

Of course, being a Muskmelon, you skip over how Musk got lucky with Paypal, got lucky with SpaceX, and how Tesla and Solar City's success are entirely dependent on tax credits.

If people start fleeing to bitcoin the demand for US dollars will drop.

If pigs could fly, we'd all wear hats to avoid getting pig shit in our hair. I'd invest in hat manufacturers long before I'd invest in bitcoin.
 

How much I'm not sure but if enough people do it the value of the US dollar will go down and then the government starts to lose control of the economy.

It's not the people swapping to bit coin... It's the big corporations, the banks, the financial markets. And they aren't going to because bitcoin isn't money. It's a gambling token and it's broken beyond repair in terms of running an economy based on it.

If we had the battery tech to replace ICE vehicles today, we'd still be replacing them twenty years from now.

The average age of cars on the road in America generally bounces around 10-12 years. If we had that tech today, likely all we'd be dealing with in twenty years is the trailing edge of the bell curve/leading edge of the "long tail".
  In fact, at that point it's likely that repair shops and gasoline infrastructure would be on the verge of becoming no longer economically viable and vanishing all but entirely.
 

Not sure why technical folks always dramatically underestimate the amount of time it takes to replace infrastructure.

Someone who can't be bothered to Google basic facts about ICE vehicles and understand the implications is in a poor position to take others to task about their understanding.

Did they find a weighted chain in the car?

Time to hire an Indian tech consultancy!

So this chatbot âoeexposedâ personal data *already* âoeexposedâ on the Intertubes...

Ever been to the Microsoft campus in Redmond? Except for the blond bimbos manning the doors, itâ(TM)s all Chinese and Indians. And they wonder how Chinese and Indian hackers get their super secret code?

It claimed to have found evidence of Majorana particles...

Clearly, what they actually found was Marijuana particles from smoking out in the lab...

Musk's great advantage as a tech visionary is the willingness of investors to stick with him through the inevitable string of failures.

The folks buying and selling TSLA on the open market aren't investors and Tesla sees not so much as one thin dime of their money. They're speculators and gamblers.
 

I think people may be reevaluating Tesla because traditional auto makers are starting to get their heads out of their hindquarters and get serious about making electric vehicles people want to buy.

I think the speculators and gamblers are re-evaluating their bets partly because of the factors you list... And because TSLA is spectacularly overvalued. (Even by modern standards where market value is only extremely loosely related to book value.)
 

So people maybe people are starting to think Tesla won't always dominate electric vehicles the way it does now.

They're way late to the party then. Tesla's domination was all but a certainty to be short lived.

In *real money* or bitcoin?

Note, "defunding" has never meant "zero funding" except to a radical minority.

Note: "defunding" has always meant "zero funding". It's the literal meaning of the term. It's the dictionary definition of the term. The only people who believe in the Newspeak version are a radical minority of idiots. Idiots who absolutely refuse to grasp that their redefinition of the word is not widely accepted. (And who also fail to grasp that their attempts to redefine a tail as a leg only make them look stupid.)
 
Jaysus, but when will you self important morons grasp that you fucked the pooch when seized on a Twitter hashtag without thinking? Your utter ignorance gutshot the possibility of reforming the police before we could even get started.

Hi, Iâ(TM)m here to *WHINE* about Apple because they are just exactly not the way I want them.