>> because almost every TV has HDMI.

from a quick look only, most also have displayport.

Congratulations on making the HDMI interface even more irrelevant compared to Displayport.

>> soon or later something better will take that place.

I am under the impression that Displayport already did.

It's already happening in the more civilised parts of the world that even just the replacement rate isn't being met.
Unfortunately the people of most of the underdeveloped/poorer countries are still breeding like rabbits so there is still a net gain in global population numbers.
In terms of average quality of life, humanity as a whole is going backwards fast.

Hands up, how many remembers all the blockchain articles asking "Can Blockchain Transform xxxx?"

Has Blockchain transformed anything yet?

AI is the new Blockchain, a huge bubble looking for problems to solve to justify the bubble.

Does that include getting out of American influence also?

Yes, it is basically Netherlands office going rogue.

If it were a Chinese office with a Netherlands owning company, you can be sure the /. headline would be "Chinese Office Going Rogue Against Netherlands Owning Company".

By calling it "Civil War" the headline is misleading people into thinking both sides were on equal footing.

"The market can stay irrational long than you can stay solvent."

Fund managers with more than 10 years of experience knew that trying to short the market during a bubble is just as likely to bankrupt you as to make you rich. The most difficult part of a bubble is no one has yet found a way to predict with any confidence when it will burst.

For fund managers whose bonus is tied to how they compare to "the market" (i.e. everyone else), the safest path during a bubble is to dive into bubble like everyone else. If the bubble did not burst, they all make gains and pocket nice bonus. If the bubble did burst, every fund manager loses a whole lot of people's money but hey! we are competitive with "the market"!

For people investing with their own money, your best bet is to pull out entirely like Warren Buffet did, unless you don't need the money until 10-20 years later, then you have the option to leave them invested in non-bubble related investments and ride through the burst and subsequent recovery.

100% this.

Smarter hotels should tell their customers they would refund the difference if their room prices (for the same class of room) dropped after the booking. That, plus no penalty cancellation, makes customers more willing to book long in advance, in turn allows better planning for both the hotel and the customers.

What hotels do now only encourage travellers to book only in the last minute and hence create sudden surges which is bad for both customers and hotels. It further discourages people from travelling for leisure and in the long term reduce customers for the hotels.

Wow, they have a Plan B in case of things going wrong, what a concept!

It's actually a terrible idea.

As someone with an SCCA license used to driving racing cars that have much higher performance than nearly everything on the road (including your Tesla), I can tell you that no mass-market road car is hard to drive. The problem is never the car, it's the driver, or more accurately their lack of ability.

To properly solve a problem you need to attack the root cause, not one of it's symptoms.
If there are people out there that can't truly can't handle jthe acceleration of a car or type of car then they shouldn't have been legally allowed to drive it in the first place.

Rather than continually punishing all drivers for the sins of the clueless, how about including car handling (e.g. throttle awareness, skid recovery, etc) in the driving test, such that anyone that proves themselves incapable of being able to drive a fast car properly or safely isn't allowed to?
Perhaps cars need to be put in performance bands, and driving licenses only apply to certain bands depending on the driver's ability.

I can envision a future where everyone has their own AI agent who will generate music they like to hear, anytime they wanted it.

And anyone can share what they like with other people, without the pesky stuff like copyright blocking them.

Similarly for novels and movies.

That will be the end of so-called "content creators" who produce junk content and make a living by creating lots of them.

A website hasn't been Slashdotted in 15 years.

If they did in fact hit a balloon then it is the aircraft's fault as FAA air laws are that balloons have right of way over any powered aircraft.