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Now that Tesla is rolling out its Robotaxi fleet in Austin, I'm curious to hear from stackers in the US who have already experienced driverless cabs.

If you've used a Waymo or a Tesla Robotaxi, how was your trip?

Has anyone on here used both? Were there any major differences in trip quality?

Robotaxi vs. Waymo Experiences

I Re-Installed My Home Internet

For sure, rabbit holes require internet too

It's been two months of no home internet for me (https://stacker.news/items/1013788), and today I decided to re-install it.

The experiment was fun, the calmness that comes from being less "aware" of the world in the evenings continued all through the experiment, but being unable to spontaneously look something up is what ultimately caused me to turn my internet back on. New ideas happen on their own schedule, and if you don't capitalize on them in the moment, you might not get them back. For me, the internet helps me poke holes in new ideas quickly to see if they're worth pursuing.

This time around I do have a new internet provider (a small startup it looks like), and they actually have some interesting controls like being able to shut off your home internet automatically around a pre-set time like dinner and bedtime.

It also costs half the price of my previous plan (albeit at a lower, but fast enough speed), so that's a plus too. I'm not sure if I'd recommend turning your home internet off, but the first week or so is really peaceful.

You might get lucky and experience the same level of unawareness of the online world in an extended power outage, but otherwise it's hard to compare the feeling of being so offline while still being so close to the outside world. For me, life felt half like backcountry camping, and half like living a normal city life.

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Why Don't We Have Digital Assembly Lines?

> You have to actively resist and put measures in place to "improve your workspace".

I appreciate the thoughtful response, I think you're getting at the core of my question here. I don't think anyone at Toyota is "actively resisting" chaos or distraction, their system keeps everything in check.

What are the ways one can improve their workspace to achieve similar levels of efficiency online?

I don't know what this means, which makes the comment more convincingly human

i should have said you have one minute once you've read the post

Is this what ChatGPT said when you asked it my question?

You have one minute to leave a comment that proves you are a human and not an AI bot. 

Go.

I see, so sort of like the physical equivalent of getting someone else's factory to teleport into your own factory to provide a widget instead of making it yourself?

I don't know what any of those words mean

The 20th century was prime-time for the assembly line. There are countless famous examples including:

- Henry Ford cutting the time it took to produce a vehicle by 10x with his Highland Park assembly line
- McDonalds and Starbucks experimenting with thousands of layout variations in their stores to find the one optimal "path" for efficient production
- Toyota's lean production system and values of "constant improvement"
- Airlines all over the world focusing on minimizing turnaround time to boost profit

It's probably not a stretch to say there are trillions of dollars at stake in the race to be more efficient in the physical world, and everyone is working off a similar "best practices" playbook to limit waste, improve speed, and trim unnecessary steps from a system to earn more.

That's fine, but what about the digital world? What does a digital assembly line look like? What are the digital "best practices" for getting more work done, with fewer distractions or dead ends?

When I work (and I assume most people have similar work habits), I bounce around between all sorts of tabs on multiple devices all day long, and anyone observing me would have to conclude that I'm basically the exact opposite of efficient.

For all the value locked up in the digital world today, you'd think there would be some sort of "assembly line" or "efficiency" blueprint that was widely adopted, but I can't think of one off the top of my head.

Maybe this is a function of the way the digital world is structured, maybe it's just me, but maybe there are underappreciated rules, systems, or strategies that we could all be using to be more productive with our digital time.

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The Most Valuable Sub-$10 Billion Company in 2030

Good pick, I was more thinking about public companies but didn't specify

If the prompt was for a Sub-$3 Billion company, I'd be strongly considering Randy Altschuler at Xometry. 

I'm actually drawing a blank myself, most of the companies I've bookmarked as "probably undervalued" are in the $10-$100b range, but there's always a few people flying under the radar with massive businesses that just need a few more years.

Who is your pick for the most valuable company in 2030 that is currently worth less than $10 billion?

Are The Men Who Know Most The Most Gloomy?

Who would you put on the Mt Rushmore of AI knowledge today?

What are the AI doomers trying to advertise?

Is it always the case that those who know most about a topic are most gloomy? Or are there instances where the reverse is true too?