The robotaxi business model is the total opposite of scaling. At my previous employer we were solving the problem "block by block, city by city", , and I can only assume that you are living in the right city/block where they are tackling.
Aside from the mandatory negotiation with the employee co-determination (works council), the layoffs "must be determined according to the principles of social selection [...] (t)his is often perceived as a major obstacle [...] it would be disastrous to have to dismiss top performers simply because they are younger than other employees or have been recently hired."
Bazel streamlines the build process with native code (C++/Rust) in Python, making the experience a breeze. However, the drawback is that you would need to transition to Bazel.
To commoditize your complements, so that you don't have to pay license fee to your suppliers.
In a way, the German OEMs have been trying to do so, but mostly via different standardization efforts (OpenSCENARIO for example) so that they can easily change suppliers.
Not that I don't agree. I would however rank Sci-Hub, Library Genesis and Anna's Archive higher than Wikipedia. And don't forget about Internet Archive and Arxiv.
This vast amount of high quality human knowledge was not available in the good old internet 20 years ago.
Assuming that semi-convincing misinformation spreads everywhere, people will finally have to find the original source of a certain statement, verify their "knowledge supply chain", and maybe use logic to evaluate every single statement made.
This case was presented to the House Committee on Education & the Workforce in the hearing on "How SCOTUS’s Decision on Race-Based Admissions is Shaping University Policies":
Perhaps serving plain text data is cheap enough so that it can be done as a non-profit/hobbyist project?
The problem is that people don't like to read text, and thus the above proposed social network might not have widespread adoption, thus reducing the network effect.