andrewksl

Absolutely, but there don’t have to be human rights violations in order for a country with lower costs of living to be a more attractive host for manufacturing than one with a higher cost of living.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on almost every point and a couple you haven't mentioned.

> greatest blue collared jobs/ communities destroyers in Italy, France, Spain, UK, US, Japan

But isn't this just the nature of globalization? And aren't the corporations in the countries you mentioned complicit in choosing to cut costs by moving production to cheap countries? And aren't we as consumers complicit in continuing to buy cheap goods like it's going out of fashion (wishful thinking lol).

Very well put! I'll add that dismissing things early tends to act as a roadblock to further creative pathways. It's almost exactly why you don't shoot down ideas while brainstorming; it kills the environment of creativity the exercise is intended to foster.

I've found that Cobra[0] does pretty much everything I've needed via a reasonable API, but I'll admin I'm not fussy about CLI utility behavior.

[0] https://github.com/spf13/cobra

I think you and the parent post are looking at two angles of the same object. The societal pressures that would incentivize masculine names are the same ones that would encourage teasing of a boy with a "girl's name."

IANAL, but it is already illegal to:

- Shoot guns within city limits

- Damage property

- Steal

A more grey area might be what you're obligated to do if it lands/crashes in your back yard.

So no chocolate or coffee, then.

I think the quality is a side effect of the real problem with fast fashion: Implied disposability.

I wonder if this reddit comment was on to something: https://www.reddit.com/r/CannabisExtracts/comments/b1w76g/tr...

Some background information:

- Cannabis, particularly THC, extracts are quite viscous and require thinning in order to feed into a vaporizer’s heating element. In other words, even for very pure use, some thinning is necessary.

- Thinning agents include propylene glycol (PG) and polyethylene glycol (PEG), also commonly used in nicotine liquids

- A market for terpenes as a thinning agent has emerged amidst uncertainty about the long term effects of PG and PEG

I wonder if mineral oils sold as terpenes are behind the lipoid pneumonia as the commenter mentions. Considering at least some of the carts were tested to be of advertised potency, I could conceive of a contaminated batch of “terpenes” making it into a well-meaning producer’s cartridges.

Could you elaborate more on why you think China is being a bully, as opposed to responding to a trade war they didn’t start? Or why you think they don’t realize the nature of their relationship with the US?

What evolutionary advantage would plants have to be healthy for humans when eaten as a whole food? Even agriculture, the start of which is a mere blip on an evolutionary time scale, would be enough to destroy any symbiotic relationship (which, AFAIK has never been tested let alone proven). Agriculture tends to select for flavor/taste and not long term health benefits.

Also, are tahini and miso paste not processed foods? Does heating food not modify a food's chemical makeup?

This is true. However, the build quality is abysmal. Plastic pieces have come unglued and buttons are faulty on both my fiancée's pair and mine. I don't think I can recommend the SoundSports as much as the QC35s.

Yeah, he should set up in the good ol' US of A, where kids are never separated from their parents when their parents are seized for dubious reasons and ethnic groups are never targeted for placement in `extraordinary rendition` camps.

I like that idea, but I suspect the big stuff is actually pretty easy to recycle. It's the little bits of plastic and paper that are a problem to sort.

> If a truck driver gets in to serious accident every 20 years, an algorithms will be blamed for a serious truck accident every 2.4 months - even if it was 100X better than human! It's an inescapable law of large numbers.

You're comparing 1 driver driving 1 truck to 1 "algorithm" driving 1000 trucks and then comparing the nominal number of accidents.

I'm not an insurer, but I highly doubt they care about individual (human or otherwise) performance. I would bet they do care quite a bit about the accident rates you're attempting to dismiss.

4 laps at what could be a leisurely pace hardly qualifies as competitive swimming.

Genuinely curious: As far as you know, are the projects synergistic, or do the Chinese offer lopsided/predatory deals?

As hopeful and excited as I am for Ethiopia, the cynical part of me can't help but see the relationship as less cooperation and more exploitation.

The ones that cooperate with state-sanctioned censorship? Malaysia blocks anti-government news sites via ISP DNS entries; using a 3rd party DNS bypasses the block easily.

Accusing government officials of mismanagement or outright theft of public funds is an easy way to get your domain black holed over here. That, piracy, and porn. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the latter two were thrown in solely to make the program look more legit.

https://cilisos.my/8-sites-the-malaysian-gomen-blocked-in-20...

Perhaps most ridiculously, Medium.com is blocked for simply hosting an article posted by a censored website. Yes, you read that right; they banned an entire domain, the vast majority of which covers nothing even remotely related to Malaysia, over a single article.

I try to be grateful they are as inept at censorship as they are oversensitive to criticism.

I always assumed the requirement was forced by MPAA or its equivalent bodies. I don't see what benefit Netflix could gain by forcing one browser or another, but this sort of nonsense is pretty consistent with what the DRM-happy, piracy-paranoid content owners have done in the past to "prevent piracy."

>Let’s get on with it now. Let’s use this to help people. Or to give people purple skin.

IIRC, the skin whitening industry in Asia, which hawks products of very questionable efficacy, is worth tens of billions. I wonder how much a CRISPR solution would be worth, given that it has a better chance of working than snake oil in a soap.

Jokes aside, is it really as simple to administer as injecting one's self with a, as he calls it, plasmid?

Genuine question: What does the chart represent?

Whoa, seriously? Actual medical doctors will prescribe government-paid homeopathy?

Uh, not that this guy doesn't deserve to be charged, but what about the cop who shot an innocent, unarmed man?

Ah. I didn't pick that up from the Google translated version I read.

Looks like what casinos do when they throw cards away so they can't be scavenged and used for play.

I believe the Chinese buy these types of imported goods (if not all imported goods in general) because of a perception that they are of a certain level of quality. The "disruption" would not be copying an innovation so much as building branding of a Chinese alternative. For most cases, it would involve changing the widely held belief that Chinese products are inferior.

That kind of brings that Chinese caviar company to mind. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-19/the-world...

The site is showing in Chinese for me. It really irks me when sites don't respect the browser's language. Surely this is a solved problem?

I mean, if you intend to kick up enough of a shitstorm to be the only person ever denied service by Cloudflare and then be denied service by Godaddy and Google domains, then I guess this rings true?

For everyone else, I'm thinking the few hours it takes your DNS settings to propagate in the unlikely event you'll even have to is probably a reasonable tradeoff for free.

I think they're both equally culpable; the customer for making pricing a race to the bottom and the service provider for choosing to play said game.

The customer could choose to consider the treatment of the workers a priority in selecting service providers, and the service provider could choose to refuse to exploit their workers just to secure deals, but neither of them have any real incentive to do so. It's not illegal to shop primarily by price. It's not illegal to hire PT workers even when FT would be viable.

I do agree, though, that the problem is a lack of regulation; unfettered capitalism really does have a evil end game.