maxglute

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by maxglute 1y ago
Temu opened European warehouses this year, I assume they can be sued in Europe.
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by maxglute 1y ago
UPU reforms from 2020 already phased in, your local post especially in NA and EU is has not been subsidizing PRC shipments for a while.
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by maxglute 1y ago
>massively subsidizes the shipping costs This another one of those allegations where muh PRC subsidies makes no sense, especially since we're 5 years past UPU reforms... as in PRC companies haven't had preferential postage rate
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by maxglute 1y ago
Fascinating to see prominent anti PRC TWers (like Angela) flip in the last few years. LBH, DPP blocking peaceful reunification routes, trying to insinuate it's treasonous to cooperate with CCP will only lead to forceful reunification.
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by maxglute 1y ago
My gist is more no current bluewater Navy, including US is scaled to fight attrition battle in a near parity peer sized adversary's backyard. On paper this applies to current USN vs WestPac. Axis JP+DE during WW2, peak USSR were both ~
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by maxglute 1y ago
PRC-TW/ROC is already ongoing civil war that never ended in ratification, so legally it doesn't really matter. It's no different than ROC doing port closure policy for decades.
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by maxglute 1y ago
US+co essentially incapable of resupplying TW if PRC motivated to stranglehold blockade. TW is 15 times smaller than UKR, the quality of ISR and amount of munitions PRC can pour onto anywhere in the island and adjacent waters is also orders
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by maxglute 1y ago
Political reunification, i.e. land > people, see PRC saying "keep the island not the people". At this point no amphibious assault needed, just blockading TW and turning into gaza via mainland munitions now that starving masses
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by maxglute 1y ago
>slow escalation That's probably how it plays out if it plays out (also imo unlikely). But also mere existence of capabilities like PRC PGS will force parties to recalibrate response matrix. It would also be true to say ANY US strik
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by maxglute 1y ago
> preemptive strikes Prompt global strike less about preemption, but building up proportional responses on retaliation latter. US discussion around TW scenario factors in mainland strikes, with assumption that CONUS will be relatively sp
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by maxglute 1y ago
> quality of ride Is this year 2000? Chinese cars are overwhelmingly tuned for much softer ride experience at expense of feeling performance / sporty. Especially 50k+ tier from last few years, most perform better than Euro cars in t
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by maxglute 1y ago
PRC going to roll out their prompt global strike sooner than later. Conversation of CONUS vulnerability is slowly being acknowledged in wonk circles. A few more PRC FOB tests and the notion that PRC can conventionally strike CONUS (eventual
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by maxglute 1y ago
Many factors, including shady, I'm just noting it's not laziness / chabuduo culture driving behavior in these scenarios.
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by maxglute 1y ago
What's the process for checking? They ask you to unlock your phone or hook it up to some machine and slurps info out?
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by maxglute 1y ago
>Chabuduo mindset [1] is a very real thing IMO high tech cost optimization is like the opposite of chabuduo - it's not half-assing, but over value engineer under pressure. The PRC's "amazing" manufacturing system fost
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by maxglute 1y ago
Chatgpt napkin math, entire lifetime of US shale water uses is ~2% of annual US agriculture irrigation (300k wells, 5 million gallons per well, 1.5 trillion gallons lifetime) Or About 1 year worth of US almond production.
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by maxglute 1y ago
OP is flat out wrong. Some SKUs got value engineered to be less durable over time to keep up with inflation (or material costs, i.e. solid wood is just more expensive now), i.e. expedite->kallax, billy. But new SKU enabled by new tech&#x
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by maxglute 1y ago
Same popular product gets value engineered over iterations to be worse. At same time, most category of products likely has competitors that have cropped up over last 20 years that has much better quality to price ratio.
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by maxglute 1y ago
Not surprised. Expensive, taste like shit. Nice Asian vegetarian food exist. A always seemed like stupid amount of resources a d effort to cater to burger markets.
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by maxglute 1y ago
Yeah. This and GShock Move. IMO pretty low effort, I'd want basic smart watch / band functions like full sensor suite, notifications, nfc. Literally just need Casio to copy a miband (which goes on sale for like <30 USD) /
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by maxglute 1y ago
Maybe youtube push audience to view auto translated/dubbed foreign language content from regions where they don't have to pay out to creators, or pay as much. TBH the more content I can view the better, just give me a toggle to se
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by maxglute 1y ago
very cool. casio would make killing building fitness band with 3-4 week battery life in the form factor of f91w. cheap fitness bands are basically already the mass smart watches of our era.
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by maxglute 1y ago
You scroll in normal mode. One handed mode let's you reach top UI element with an extra gesture which is more or less all you need for if you want to operate a phone with thumb.
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by maxglute 1y ago
>if bricklayers If legit construction robots were a thing they'd be primarily trained on assembling the most automation friendly cladding systems instead of wasting time laying bricks, incidentally why brick fell out of favor. Ironi
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by maxglute 1y ago
Tiny market =/= no market, but not sustainable market. One hand mode + one hand type mode is not the same as small phone, but it makes one hand mode on big devices feasible. I'm personally waiting for eastern foldable phones to ge
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by maxglute 1y ago
Phone finger strap + learn one hand mode.
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by maxglute 1y ago
Market wants big phones. The solution... look to the east. Phone accessories to manage big phones. Many women with small hands using finger loops (that double as kickstands), wrist straps, full body lanyards. Convincing main brands to dump
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by maxglute 1y ago
At this rate better chance of waiting for cover screen of flip foldables to be mini phone sized.
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by maxglute 1y ago
PRC probably has more than OECD combined in STEM by now. Based on past 20 years of even declining births and tertiary + STEM enrollment %s, they're still on trend to add another 40+ million in next 20-25 years, i.e. it's demograph
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by maxglute 1y ago
One of my neatest Beijing finds was an usually eloquent huckster (i.e. not a country bumpkin) leading me through maze of alleys and hallways to a VCD shop that repackaged discs into really nice matching spines and covers. Kind of like crite

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