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Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by moshun »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #213
Veliladon wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there's nowhere in the US like Shenzhen, Guangdong or Hong Kong. Remember how Apple couldn't just pick up and move the production of iPhones to India or Vietnam? You need all the ancillary industries around the production to be there, along with being competitive and commoditized as well. When a supplier has something go wrong a line of manufacturing doesn't go down. You go down the street to the same guy sel…

> Remember how Apple couldn't just pick up and move the production of iPhones to India or Vietnam? You left out the part about dormitories full of modern-day slaves, complete with nets so they don't leap to their deaths. Generally this is frowned upon in the West. India and Vietnam wouldn't tolerate it either, despite being developing countries. Wasn't there a riot at Apple's India factory over work conditions or am…

While I agree with the sentiment, the new administration clearly doesn’t care about that and has no intention of fixing it. This political theater so they can fix it later.

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by nico »

aqueueaqueue wrote: post #155
nico wrote: post #96

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Par for the course. It is political. HN isn't Reddit.

These are unprecedented times

Given HN’s community’s pretty close ties to the current events, HN should allow and even promote discussion

Even if sometimes threads can get derailed. There are a lot of very thoughtful conversations that allow for greater nuance and understanding than almost anything you can find on social media or sites like Reddit

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by mindslight »

jrflowers wrote: post #206
mindslight wrote: post #189

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Really? I would think these orders are due to some combination of cocaine, Viagra, and Ambien.

I don’t think cocaine comes from China

I assume by this point they're getting it direct from that one factory that supplies Coca-Cola.

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by mastodon_acc »

ggm wrote: post #183
seo-speedwagon wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting rid of de minimus exemptions made it impossible to assess duty on the volume of packages coming in. So they just won’t accept packages at all.

And forgo the revenue? Or, do the other carriers do a better job of meeting the imposts?

It’s a govt service, they are not trying to meet wall street quarterly shareholder expectations

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Post by fragmede »

dang wrote: post #138
Volundr wrote: post #129

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Usually it's user flags. There's more than enough Trump supporters that between them and the folks who will flag anything political that it takes a HUGE number of upvotes to overcome that. Technically @dang does have mod control to remove things as well as prevent user flags from suppressing something. As far as I know the second power is used much more commonly, to prevent something controversial but clearly on-topi…

Here's a subthread from yesterday where I went into this in depth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 . Past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... . If anyone has a question that isn't answered at those links, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.

I have a question. How can users here help you, Dan? Judging by the activity over the past 15 days have gone, the next four years are going to involve multiple MOTs on most days, and moderating that all seems like a lot of work for one person.

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Post by bigbacaloa »

suraci wrote: post #214
dtquad wrote: post #120

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>I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China As a software engineer who works closely with electrical and firmware engineers I know what you are saying is completely true. The question is how did we let it go this far? Why has there never been serious Western alternatives to JLCPCB, PCBWay, JLCCNC etc.? Has anyone asked themselves h…

I post this elsewhere, i'll just put it here again: Due to underdeveloped economies, developing countries cannot avoid economic dependence on developed countries, especially in areas such as high technology, equipment, and precision instruments. However, this dependence varies depending on the development stage of each country. For example, African nations primarily require food to sustain basic living conditions. Re…

For those that don't know, Wang hunting wrote that in 1991! Now he is one of the top dogs in the Chinese government ....

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Post by thesaintlives »

reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

Time to step up?

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Post by pessimizer »

anigbrowl wrote: post #100
reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

Well if you're not busy you'll have time join in a general strike. Shutting the economy down is rapidly becoming the only nonviolent option.

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Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by thesaintlives »

dtquad wrote: post #120
reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

>I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China As a software engineer who works closely with electrical and firmware engineers I know what you are saying is completely true. The question is how did we let it go this far? Why has there never been serious Western alternatives to JLCPCB, PCBWay, JLCCNC etc.? Has anyone asked themselves h…

Because it is not $120 of raw material...

Re: Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

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Post by reaperman »

anonylizard wrote: post #147
JohnBooty wrote: post #122

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Can you ship via non-USPS couriers? FedEx, etc?

Indeed you can. This only affects the heavily subsidized usps shipping process. If your r&d cannot afford fedex you shouldn’t be doing r&d. For all the supposed panic and importance of this process, the poster didn’t do even a google search of this issue

upvoted by poster. BUT - USPS stopped subsidizing Chinese packages back in 2018? https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/418081-usps-is-done-subs...

So on the surface, this looks more like corporate welfare to FedEx/DHL.

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