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Surprised a free tool app would want that guy.

In the case of phone cases, you can get Chinese domestic shipping costs as low as $0.2 if your daily volume is high enough. It's a special offer tho, since it's light weight and compact.

And yes, shipping companies can still make normal profit on these.

From this standpoint, your example isn't nearly the cheapest it can get. Sellers regularly offer entirely free ones in exchange for reviews.

You don't fear a bad guy, you fear people with nothing to lose, since like everybody is reconsidering their relationship with China now, might as well go even lower while at it.

This theory doesn't seem plausible, the very place where the body releases CO2 is the same for O2.

This coronavirus has made the people believe the gov is the best on the planet, since every other country is struggling with their freedom and rights, or as they are being told.

If what the gov is doing (ostensibly) makes them rich, e.g. they can afford cars and condo prices double every few years, them yes, the majority of people doesn't care.

Li's case generated huge backlash in China last year, at the time it was perceived as a disgruntled employee being shamelessly persecuted after he demanded to be compensated as per law, had he not record the meeting and later present it as evidence, it was widely believed that he could have been convicted for extortion in this mere labor dispute. Huawei was given the name "Prison .Co" for a series of jailings involving the company's employees and jornalists, NYT then claimed it lost favor in China which was quite an overstatement.

However this report has shone new light on the case, apparently he wasn't arrested for the alledged extortion, but for that sensitive geopolitical incident. Li should feel lucky that this key info wasn't exposed back then, otherwise he would certainly have lost all public support.

I'm starting to think that this kind of idea is dangerous.

Chinese apps are left unchecked as long as they are loyal to the regime, but international companies would be held accountable back home for their actions in China, in an inevitable race to the bottom, this is competitive disadvantage and outsiders are doomed to fail.

>No backing up your messages to the cloud like WhatsApp or having them loaded from the server like Facebook Messenger.

Their old product QQ has it, the reason they didn't do it on WeChat, I think it's because they have no other choice since:

-They have to make WeChat "presentable" internationally, they means they can't appear to store it since they are beholden to China.

-They need to convey a message that they aren't watching you, but in reality their system needs to be monitored by Chinese police real time[1], since that rules out the option of E2E encryption, the only way is at least appear to be hands off.

[1]https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/12/27/dont-call-xi-the-b...

Basically every country in the world is waiting for it, you can't realistically expect the virus to die down itself now that it's reached every country.

If it can subsidize native students, it's not a bad thing, what's needed is an enviroment in which cheating and political manipulation can be freely called out.

COVID-19 started as a chat group screenshot, then a picture of an government document. Both were leaked and could be classified as rumors at the time.

Many of them can be fake, but it's the way infos flow, because can you trust their official reports? The world was told that this virus doesn't transmit between humans.

Rice with heavy metal such as cadmium, it's pretty common so many don't even test it, those that are unfortunate to be tested can still be sold to rice snack factories.

>massive waste and spoilage in the supply chain.

Maybe in the west, but not the case in China, food is relatively expensive, so very little is wasted, even poisonous rice can find snack factory buyers. Restaurant waste is colleted by small pig farms.

The pork supply gap is too big for any national reserve, the gap is 20 million tons. That's why China is importing Canadian pork despite the Huawei situation.

Compounding the matter is the party bureaucracy effectively killed most small farms since villages were completed sealed off, chickens weren't allowed to be sold (or killed in fear of bird flu) and feeds can't be sent in.

The pork shortage drove the chicken market to overheat last year and just right when they were suffering from oversupply during the winter this virus hit. Double whammy.

Also the standards, produce being wasted too much.

Only through meaningful antibody mass tests can we decide the true scope of the spread, thus the real numbers of fatality rate.

Economies couldn't wait for the cure, and vaccines mostly likely won't last long.

It's valueded because it's wild and natural, they don't care about the costs, many of the eaters show off this dish on social media coz they are rich and powerful, and won't be punished for eating endangered animals.

And it's not that exotic meats are all delicious so people prize them, what flavor do shark fins/cubilose have? It's the supposed power they got.

A lot of things in TCM do that, like tiger/bull cock or antler, even garlic chives, beef, sheep or kidney.

Good luck telling the rich and powerful they shouldn't eat this what they believed is the most tonic and upscale meat of late.

Remember that girl who paid 6.5 million dollars to get into Stanford last year? Her dad's listed company sells billions of dollars of TCM every year that claims to cure thrombus because the ingredients used (earthworm, scorpion and leech) are adept at digging things. Yes TCMs don't need to go through any FDA-like process or trial to prove anything, coz it's national treasure.

Pangolin meat and scales are prized in TCM coz you know, it dig rocks.

Yes, that's why about the only things the industry can do are denser basestations and higher frequencies.

Think about it as your home wifi, it's essentially the same, how do you increase its capacity?

If the industry doesn't have to factor in ROI, then your argument is valid, but it's a business.

Wireless communication has hit its limits, mmWave won't save it.

They have this "zero-out" campaign, effectively goading local officials into reporting zero cases, you will need to think about your political career before reporting one.

Nukes don't work like that, it's not used to blow things up to the sky, it is detonated near ground to maximize it's blast zone and send the shockwave and heat as wide as possible, make an area uninhabitable.

There's probably never a better chance to crush competitors, now that demand is low and high-cost private wells are fragile.

The problem with silver is it's not a currency it used to be, it's just a cheap metal nowadays.

It's a campaign called "zero out", since Chinese officials only report to their superiors, you can imagine this urge to report zero or at little as possible to ensure their bright political career, this also explains basically any thing in China.

There are anecdotes about communitiy cases listed on community notices but not reported in official data.

It's a gamble of whether this virus will persist like flu, in an era of mobility, pandemics are almost inevitable.

PCR and high-throughput are two things, testing kits are for PCR and aren't very accurate.

A true capitalist, banning him outright is detrimental, just limit his markup and get done with it.