It's good that people are making dumb decisions like this, presumably out of spite. Makes it easy to know who to fire.
Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
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Amazon , 40$ https://a.co/d/6HSc2A6 AliExpress , 17$( see coupons below). https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806198514308.html Plus AliExpress tends to offer coupons. So let's say you buy 300$ of stuff from Amazon, and 300$ of stuff from AliExpress. Even if the products are the same price, AliExpress will offer a 30$ off coupon. Amazon has to build in a higher margin though, they practically have a no questions asked…
$17 is temporarily half off with list $37.19. So normally it's pretty similar.
Everything on AliExpress is always half off.
Lenovo does this too.
It's just marketing.What matters is at the end of the day what you paid for it.
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#513This 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…
OSHPark but more expensive
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We must buy different things.
I will absolutely concur with American products getting far worse. Everything is cost cut to the bone.
It's not so much that it is cost cut to the bone, but that the expertise is being lost.
I can tell you with a straight face that american manufacturing is being held up right now by grey beards pushing back retirement because young people have zero interest in manufacturing boiler conduit fittings. You can crash course an IT cert and come out making more money than you would ever make pressing steel couplers.
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#516I sincerely hope US and Canada can regrow some manufacturing capacity. I think the only way to do it is by a one-two punch, and middle class like me are going to seriously get hurt, but I still want it done, for the sake of later generations and for a better, safer, more competitive humanity. Safer because a successful reform removes the need of a world war. The one-two punch is: 1) A massive devaluation of housing,…
> I sincerely hope US and Canada can regrow some manufacturing capacity.
What does canada have anything to do with anything. When was canada a manufacturing power? Why do canadians love to interject themselves into topics that don't involve them?
> 1) A massive devaluation of housing, stocks and other similar items.
You want wealth destruction? Most of americans' wealth is tied to home equity and 401k.
> That's why I said we are going to get seriously hurt.
Who is we? Are you even american?
> 2) Educate a whole generation that labor is honorable, so that engineers, scientists, technicians and such get more respect (I mean real respect, not the superficial one nowadays) than lawyers and bankers.
What are you talking about? You think lawyers and bankers get more respect than engineers and scientists?
> But I'm seeing is that US is taking another darker road.
What road is that?
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My impression, having visited the place, is that the Chinese laborers just work ridiculously hard. Part of this is due to culture and very heavy handed management, part of this due to the working class seeing huge returns on their labor (wealth has grown exponentially in their own lifetimes).
Going a bit on a tangent: I grew up in Europe, but am now living in Singapore. It's interesting: despite all the PRC's advances and progress in the last few decades, they are still the poorest Chinese-majority country. You can go even wider, and look at countries with sizeable Chinese minorities, like Malaysia or Thailand, and I think you will find that the average ethnic Chinese person there also makes more than the…
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese
how to quantify "by and large"? there's not many chinese people outside china and most of them left china in the last 100 years in search of better lives.
and usa and singapore are rich?
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Thank you @dang for the in-depth and thoughtful information communicated in those links. You put a lot of effort and dedication into taking care of HN. Really appreciate that Given how much has happened and come out in the last 48hrs alone. I would say there is a big unprecedented Major Ongoing Topic (MOT) The MOT is the coup going on. You might call it something else, but you can definitely group a lot of the politi…
I hear you, but I don't feel that HN is that influential, and I feel like what influence it does have would evaporate if we tried to use it. HN works best as a place to meander, with unspecified side effects. Since some people perceive discussion quality to be (relatively) high on HN, they often want to redirect its focus to things that are more important to them (such as urgent public issues or, less loftily, promot…
Thank you for the detailed answer
Now I understand better where you are coming from and what you are trying to protect
I wish we had something like HN where we could address more tech-adjacent topics, especially when it’s a huge MOT like what’s going on now
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Is there a primary source for sending "additional troops" by Mexico? All I found was the twitter post from Mexico's president: https://x.com/Claudiashein/status/1886434747238514776 And the summary of the speech on on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firstpost/reel/DFntTIlvOpe/ Neither confirm additional troops rather than just having 10k at the border.
A lot of the English reporting I'm reading said "reinforce" which implies addition. I don't speak spanish but the tweet from Sheinbaum also translates to "reinforce" if translation valid: >1. Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl.
> A lot of the English reporting I'm reading said "reinforce" which implies addition.
Agree it implies addition, but if you promise to send 10k, then make another promise to send 10k, then send 10k you kept both promises to send 10k.
An article saying home many troops are going to be on the border ie 10k vs 20k. Or clarity on if 10k had already been sent to the border before the pledge to Trump for 10k reinforcements. Or something that goes in to detail about the timing and number of troop deployments would clear up the issue.
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The boston-95-ring-vs-silicon-valley/noncompete-enforcement story gets close to this. Or the detroit-automotive-supply-chain story. It's largely about can you set up an effective ecosystem of suppliers. The story of the Traitorous 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight is basically the tale of how free-market competition spawns the economic prosperity of an entire region. In those times, Boston's 95 ring wa…
"VC's won't fund a bodega specializing in some obscure electronics niche" --- is it generally known who funds Shenzhen bodegas?
Walking through there and nearby HongKong it’s literally well educated individuals in garages each doing a ‘thing’ that all comes together to make something bigger. No investment needed here.
As in I witnessed a bespoke electric motor manufacturer that was in the ground floor garage space with a couple of guys neatly winding insulated copper around an iron bar cut to the size needed (very large).
You might see a massive train motor and say ‘where’d they get the funding to start this bespoke train motor company’. But it’s literally a couple of guys in an area where they have another couple of guys make the custom brushes, someone else doing the housing, they wind on the coils and boom you have a bespoke motor manufacturer. No investment needed.