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sillyputty1967 said:

Howdy, where is it documented that the Thunderbolt ports on Apple Silicon Macs support DisplayPort 2.0?

https://vesa.org/featured-articles/vesa-releases-updated-displayport-alt-mode-spec-to-bring-displayport-2-0-performance-to-usb4-and-new-usb-type-c-devices/

A 5-watt charger that you most likely own will charge any iPhone to 100% overnight while you sleep and not shorten your battery’s life as much as fast-charging would.

jeez.. the amount of whining going on here is strong.

viclauyyc said:

The secret sauce of Tesla is Elon. If he  sell and leave, the magic is gone and value cut in half.

The production volume of Tesla at that time,2017, is really low around 110k. So if you divide by $60B, it is really expensive. 

Elon Musk is to Tesla like Steve Jobs was to Apple.  In this case, I think it's more so Elon as I think many want to work at Tesla (and SpaceX) specifically because of Elon running the show.  

jcc said:

I don't know why people are not concerned about the red Chinese hiring away TSMC blue Chinese engineers. No one here seems to be concerned that China is about to become technologically superior to us in advanced semiconductor production. They already beat us in infrastructure building. Just how many industries will we continue to lose before we wake the f&^k up? Later, they can just cut us off from their supply and there won't be a damn thing we can do about it since we're too dumb to produce any here in the U.S.

I read an interesting thread a while back (I think it was Reddit) were some supposed former TSMC employees that were poached by China were discussing what was essentially horror stories about how these Chinese companies were essentially exploiting them specifically for TSMC's IP, and then essentially firing them after they got what they wanted.  They wanted Chinese-only (i.e. "loyal") people essentially to take over.  Yes, they were offered tons of money to these people, but they were let go within a year after they got whatever IP they were going after.

Social media companies can disappear in a blink, yet companies like Facebook are in business because there's obviously a market they're serving.  Last time I checked, no one is putting a gun to everyone's head and forcing them to use FB, IG, or WhatsApp.  There are plenty of other competitors in the market, and even with all the hate towards FB, people seem to still be using them.