What percentage of Canadians have to walk to a box down the street right now?
I'm curious, because during these discussions there is all this talk about how having to do that will bring down the whole system, will unfairly affect the elderly or disabled.
Yeah, I'm with you. In fact, in the town I grew up, we needed to drive down to the Postal Office.
And people living in apartment buildings need to stop at their mailbox at the bottom floor.
There's no reason for the 'handful' of cases, Canada Post could still have door delivery for people that apply for it. No different than applying for a Handicap sticker for your car.
It all made sense years ago when mail/letters/newspapers were all being delivered to the door.
But collectively we get nothing in snail mail anymore other than adverts. Just about all billing has moved to automatic or online anyway, and like I said for the rare important paper documents, they don't trust that shit in traditional mail anyway.
But I think dropping the daily mail to weekly would be much easier pill to swallow, then forcing people to walk down the street to a box in the rain/snow.
Just think thou, with the subsidies, maybe a bi-weekly visit...
Canada Post could have set themselves up as the defacto last mile delivery service.. they could have been towing along all those amazon deliveries while they were at people's houses dropping off mail anyway.
So much efficiency to be had in the system, and they just ignored the writing on the wall for the past 15 years.
Yeah, the Ukrainian people threw out Yanukovych multiple times for being a Russian puppet.
Yanukovych argued in favour of economic modernisation, increased spending and, initially, continuing trade negotiations with the EU. He pledged to remain non-aligned in defence policy. However, his years in power saw what analysts described as democratic backsliding,[10] which included the jailing of Tymoshenko, a decline in press freedom[11] and an increase in cronyism and corruption.[12] In November 2013, Yanukovych made a sudden decision, amidst economic pressure from Russia,[13] to withdraw from signing an association agreement with the EU and instead accept a Russian trade deal and loan bailout. This sparked mass protests against him that ultimately led to his ousting as president.
How or where is the US involved in this? and why would they care?
Or you know Occam's razor,
pressure from Russia clearly indicates they want Ukraine and are upset that their puppet was thrown out by the people.
Dude was jailing his opposition, and the people rose up against it.
That doesn't sound like the actions of a person that has Ukraine's interests as their primary goal.
After Russia lost their puppet, they invaded Crimea.
Now GOP is saying he resigned that seat, so they can't release the investigation (they shouldn't be used investigate basic citizens is their arguement)
So... when he's up for AG, they do a background check right? Release it then as soon as his hearing starts. He's not a basic citizen then, he's being checked out for the job.
Release it as soon as he attempts to take any governmental position.
nVidia has some SERIOUS R&D in the use of AI for the past 10 years.
But using AI in the graphic space... upscaling, downscaling, faking lighting, faking physics..
This is all very useful in making videogames.
Then there was a leap in the way AI Image generation was done with the above hardware. And that opened up a whole new growing field.
It's just some people took basic language models that have been around for 30 years and scaled them up with their hardware.
And it was neat, and surprising some of the stuff a LLM would output. But not reliable.
And then suddenly a lot of layman's got their hand on the LLM's and thought it was the 2nd coming of Jesus, and started throwing big money at it.. it will be surprise to no one who knows how these AI's work that that big money isn't going anywhere.
But those first two, is no hype. It's a real viable use case for the AI, and money will be made there.
How so?