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That's not the same at all.
That's funny because I've thought it is the same for years and I'm happy to see someone else post a comment about it instead. Perhaps you'd like to elaborate on why you think it's not the same.
Foxconn is a place where people live and work. Not accessible to the public.
Where is the overlap?
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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…
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…
Component availability has nothing to do with that, JLC have always been way cheaper than US/EU board houses even before they started doing assembly services
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I’ve had it for years running 24/7 and nothing happened. You might have gotten a dud.
Bursting into flames shouldn't be possible, that's a LOT worse than a "dud". (Assuming parent isn't exaggerating)
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international... Restored already. It's all about chaos.
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Not exaggerating. I had it for a little over a year. I used it in my bedroom. As usual I started it going and then went into my bathroom to brush my teeth before bed. Partly through brushing my teeth I smelled something burning. I came out and saw the humidifier in flames.
It does raise the question of certification and product safety in general, there are so many electrical devices that probably don't meet Western safety standards. A humidifier is basically a heating element in a plastic housing, it should be engineered with safety features (overheating protection etc) so it shouldn't be able to just catch fire, someone clearly didn't do their job properly at some stage. I wonder how…
All electrical products sold in the US are legally required to be NRTL certified (according to US standards). Levoit is ETL certified.
Non certified products are seized by customs or recalled from the market.
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We already have in Sweden, years ago. I thought that was all of the EU. Really fucked up my electronics hobby.
It was indeed the EU, it was the end of the low-value goods exemption if you want to search for it. I avoid shopping from China on principle, but if ordering from Ali Express or similar you shouldn't have any problems. Of course, you pay 25% VAT on your purchases.
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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…
> You metaphorically need to invent the universe to make it work in the US. You didnt answer the obvious question of the why things are the way they are now? US used to have their entire electronic supply chain, save from raw materials, in USA in the 70s... So why cant US build its own Shenzhen or Hong Kong? taxes? corporate taxes are relatively low in some US states, infrastructure? US has all the infrastructure nee…
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Building out more high-speed rail interconnections than any other part in the world is a well-known sign of a country that thinks short-term.
It’s short-termism but not the kind you first think of in the West. Chinese local officials are expected to meet and exceed targets for GDP growth. Investment is GDP growth, so officials are incentivized to build lots of flashy projects to boost growth even if there isn’t a clear need for them. The central government is so concerned with local government spending that has resulted that it has ordered 12 provinces to…
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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.
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…
A plurality of the electorate voted for Trump to be the leader of the executive branch of the United States [1] and a majority of the electorate voted for the Republican Party to be in charge of the House of Representatives [2] as well.
It only seems like a coup because the policies of the current administration and current Republican Party are drastically different from preceding administrations but sometimes in a democracy these types of radical changes occur. It doesn't make it a coup.
I'm being quite serious here. I see much alarm over the things going on in the US right now but the stuff going on seems to be a result of democracy rather than a threat to it...
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https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international... Restored already. It's all about chaos.
- never hear about the rollback, and thus think the problem has been fixed
- believe that the rollback is caused by "enemies" instead of incompetence, thus focusing on perceived attacks