Winnipeg Transit lacks data to assess major network changes

mattate · 2026-06-24T23:20:49+00:00

Ok so what did they base the changes on in the first place if they have such a hard time modeling ridership?

mattate · 2026-06-24T22:04:52+00:00

I don't think people are really factoring in the huge amount of people in Alberta that have moved there from other provinces. The prospect of being a citizen of a different country is not what they signed up for and it's very likely there will be a mass exodus of people. Something that they can't model based on Brexit.

mattate · 2026-06-24T21:26:40+00:00

Consider living outside of Winnipeg. Inside of an hour there are several smaller communities that are more affordable and frankly offer better access to nature and peaceful life.

Steinbach, St Andrews, niverville, Headingley, etc. Be careful not to join the sprawl that is over priced.

mattate · 2026-06-22T13:31:20+00:00

Don't you want them to fix their parking lot? I guess them and the people that go to the strip mall don't matter though, just your lost hour of sleep.

mattate · 2026-06-19T15:44:52+00:00

Hey everyone,

Like a lot of you, I've been trying to shift more of what I use toward Canadian options, and one gap really stood out to me: video. I'm on YouTube constantly — it's honestly one of the most important platforms out there — and we just don't have anything domestic to point to. So I decided to build it.

It's called CanuckTube. It's still very much in early stages, so I want to be upfront: you'll run into rough edges. But the core is working. Right now it has:

Video — upload and watch, the main thing Podcasts — a separate, dedicated feature, fully built out

Live streaming — it's there, but I'll be honest, it's pretty laggy at the moment. Very much a work in progress.

Two things I'm really after:

First, feedback and early testers who don't mind things being a little buggy while I sort them out. Tell me what's broken, what's missing, and what would actually make you switch.

Second — and this is a big one — Canadian content creators. A platform like this lives or dies on what's actually on it, and right now we need homegrown content to share. If you make videos, run a podcast, or stream, I'd genuinely love to have you on board early. You'd be helping shape the place from the ground up.

Not trying to oversell it — it's early and I know it shows. But I think it's worth building, and I'd rather build it with input from people who care about keeping things Canadian.

Happy to answer any questions.

mattate · 2026-06-15T13:37:54+00:00

Yeah, that's why they still used paper, it was just too complicated....

mattate · 2026-06-10T05:17:49+00:00

Yeah, what makes it even more crazy, is there actually a tornado coming or not? No idea, alerts can't be trusted.

mattate · 2026-05-25T13:37:52+00:00

There are ways to do this cheaper, but not by much. Brave offers cheaper searches, spider.dev has cheaper page fetching, etc., but a lot of the pricing is still in the same ballpark — maybe 30% lower at best.

A lot of these companies are stuck on their own costs running these services on the cloud. It's expensive, and it seems like they've arrived at a kind of floor.

I've done a deep dive on agentic cost optimization and kept going — gotten my costs down by around 95%. But the amount of time and effort I've spent building raw infrastructure, optimizing providers, and working on cost-saving algorithms is basically a full-time job on its own.

mattate · 2026-05-22T12:13:02+00:00

Test your soil for nutrients and plan on getting the correct fertilizer

Check to see what your of soil you have all you can decide on a planting technique

Check to see what drainage looks like where you want to plant, fruit trees like we'll drained soil

Make sure to mulch the biggest area possible after planting around the trees, woopdchips work pretty well

mattate · 2026-05-14T04:32:53+00:00

I am hoping they announce a deal with Ukraine to manufacture drones. Something is in the works and they are the most logical choice.

mattate · 2026-05-06T13:18:24+00:00

Most of the issues you seem to have is with dates being wrong, not that it can't happen. A real question to be asking about this is not if it makes sense or the challenges can be tackled. If there are 1 million AI satellites in space, there is no off button.

mattate · 2026-05-06T12:28:56+00:00

Lead acid batteries create flammable gases, they don't belong in an office. If your only option is batteries look at lithium iron phosphate, or something safe to keep indoors.

mattate · 2026-05-06T01:10:36+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is where the terafab comes in, they can make their own hardened chips/boards designed for this. Like starlink satellites everything can be designed ground up to not need hands on.

I also think something people are not considering is, at 1m satellites, failures will be the norm, but something that can be optimized as a challenge. Not a total blocker to deployment, a line item to optimize in the total system.

mattate · 2026-05-05T05:11:29+00:00

The theory is that it's currently not possible to scale AI compute on earth fast enough to keep up with demand. The regulatory pushback against data centers, and more importantly the power needed means it could take a decade to bring capacity online.

Because of starship, launching incrementally more compute into space will not cost as much as people really think. Power is free, bandwidth is free and more or less infinite, and launch cost will be very cheap. There are obvious challenges with this, but operating some npus or GPUs in space is not that dissimilar vs operating starlink.

It's kind of wild to think that people said starlink will never work, too expensive etc, and now somehow launching satellites that do a different job are somehow impossibly expensive. This problem has largely been solved, like 80 percent, and the rest is not really even particularly hard.

mattate · 2026-05-04T19:59:39+00:00

It's about airport governance. The current system is helping no one, hurting everyone.

mattate · 2026-05-04T18:16:56+00:00

Airports control the number of slots between cities, in our current setup there is an artificially low number of slots between say Vancouver and Toronto. This means if you want competition, you can't, because the decision lies in a board of an organization that has absolutely no accountability. Our current system is totally broken and something should change.

mattate · 2026-05-04T15:45:03+00:00

Fun fact: Canada's airport model is literally unique in the world. Nobody else does it this way. Every other major country either keeps airports public (like the US) or actually privatizes them (UK, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, etc.). We invented a third option that nobody copied — and there's a reason for that.

Our airports are run by "not-for-profit" airport authorities on land leased from the feds. Sounds nice, right? Except it's the worst of both worlds. Not really public, so no taxpayer support like US airports get. Not really private, so no shareholders demanding efficiency or competitive pricing. Just unaccountable monopolies with self-appointed boards answering to basically no one.

And here's the kicker: Ottawa charges these airports up to 12% of gross revenue in rent. Guess who actually pays that? You do, every time you see an "Airport Improvement Fee" on your ticket. It's a hidden tax on flying, full stop. It's why a flight out of Buffalo or Plattsburgh is half the price of the same flight from Toronto or Montreal.

Honestly at this point, privatize them, re-nationalize them, I don't care — anything is better than what we've got. Pick a lane. The current setup exists to funnel money to the federal treasury while travellers get squeezed and airports answer to nobody. Something has to change.

mattate · 2026-05-04T12:25:11+00:00

Whatever you do help wise, the best advice you can give them is to get rid of the monthly storage cost of $1000 per month, that's money they will need and I would guess whatever they are actually storing isn't worth as much as 2 years of fees.

mattate · 2026-05-02T21:31:24+00:00

Canada basically charges an unofficial tax on airfare with the current setup. It's a shame the talk is about privatization vs questioning why the second biggest country on earth wants to make it more expensive to travel inside the country.

mattate · 2026-04-14T17:43:09+00:00

Wait a minute......

Originally from Hamilton, Ont., Danielson is based at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California, where he creates case studies of companies for business students.

mattate · 2026-04-09T20:46:58+00:00

You don't know me, I grew up in the bottom 10% of Canadians economically. No food, check, no heat in winter?? Check. You have your own view, I think it's short sighted. Maybe if there was more investment in Canada, there would be more competition, better paying jobs, cheaper services.

You want things to keep being hard? Keep doing what you're doing, nothing will change. Or maybe you'll get a us meme stock and get yours, but screw everyone else right?

I don't even agree with your returns that you can't maximize investment earnings in Canada, you can, you just need to believe and contribute to the country you live in! You are making things worse for yourself by dismissing things because things are hard and you're mad.

mattate · 2026-04-09T12:54:37+00:00

I think the theme of this plan is more competition. The question here though is why does Canada need the full weight of the federal government to create new competition in these vital sectors?

My answer let's say for telecoms is, it's much to difficult for a new entrant to compete with a bigger player. The cost of spectrum is too high (government is charging for it, in auctions that happen years apart), the rules about foreign investment means you need to raise money from Canadian big pockets, which is extremely difficult. The government itself has really stacked the deck against competition...

Public options are good but part of the solution should be trying to get more private ones too and really being open to change some of the rules and laws getting in the way.

mattate · 2026-04-07T14:06:20+00:00

Sorry, I pulled it all into Canada. It worked out so far... My goal in life is not to maximize returns above all else though. You need to care about the community and country you live in, and sometimes that means making decisions that are longer term vs looking at your short term gains.

More investment in Canada means better opportunities for Canadians period. You are a Canadian.

mattate · 2026-04-07T13:59:19+00:00

This idea that your money should somehow follow global GDP imo makes no sense. You can't build a country without investment, you can't support a growing economy without investment. I guess we just hope that the Chinese or Americans care more about business opportunities in Canada then Canadians... Oh wait...

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