[HN Gopher] Armored Stealth Boat: How to Smuggle Luxury Cars
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Armored Stealth Boat: How to Smuggle Luxury Cars
Author : Bluestein
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-03-14 22:03 UTC (56 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.hisutton.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.hisutton.com)
| jcun4128 wrote:
| What is happening with these images, CDN.
|
| Amazing concept though the other type of thing being smuggled
| seems to have a different approach(nearly 100% submerged).
| gruez wrote:
| > What is happening with these images, CDN.
|
| slow server + progressive jpeg?
| jcun4128 wrote:
| > progressive jpeg
|
| That's a thing? I didn't know you could do that on purpose
| thought it was a side effect of slow internet.
|
| I've used CSS blurring before/loading different sized images
| but I think this is different when reading up on it.
| gruez wrote:
| >That's a thing? I didn't know you could do that on purpose
| thought it was a side effect of slow internet.
|
| Well if you don't have it enabled, the area that is shown
| would be proportional to how much you have loaded (eg. if
| you have 50% of the picture downloaded then the top half of
| the picture will be shown, but the other half would be
| blank/transparent). If you have it enabled, then you might
| have the whole picture shown at 5% downloaded, but it will
| be super blurry, and as you download more it gets
| progressively more detailed.
|
| I don't think the author/publisher purposely used this as
| an effect, it's just an overloaded server and whatever
| image editing software he used had progressive jpeg
| enabled.
| crazysim wrote:
| Very slow speeds so here's the archive.org mirror.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20210301050115/http://www.hisutt...
| Bluestein wrote:
| "The smuggling of cars into china has been a widespread problem
| since at least the 1980s, and slowly evolved into an arms race
| between the authorities and the smugglers. The ultimate smuggling
| boat is known as the Armored Stealth Boat (ASB). You read that
| correctly; this may sound too James Bond to be real, but it is."
| p1mrx wrote:
| The ultimate smuggling boat _that we know about_.
| trhway wrote:
| what impressive is it looks like a professional design and
| construction, not DYI like for example those Columbian drug
| smuggling submarines.
| 1996 wrote:
| There is more manufacturing capability in China!
|
| But both the submarine and the ASB are marvelous creations of
| the human mind to resist the state overreach.
|
| It makes me wonder which technical marvels we are not seeing,
| and how much bigger China economy could be if only we let
| innovators freely innovate: selling better submarines to
| Columbian cartels maybe could lead to better autonomous
| boats?
| rootsudo wrote:
| Because they serve different purposes.
| throwaway888abc wrote:
| Great article and all blog, bookmarked
|
| Some other juice photos
|
| Narco Submarines Covert Shores Guide - updated
|
| http://www.hisutton.com/Narco%20Subs%20101.html
| sneak wrote:
| Smuggling implies that either the country of export doesn't want
| it going out, or the country of import doesn't want it coming in.
|
| I was not aware that you're not allowed to buy a car in europe or
| the US and ship it to China.
|
| What's the background here? I assume you are not? Why is that?
| Nasrudith wrote:
| China has limits on the importation - in addition to tarrif and
| requirements like the undercarriage being cleaned of foreign
| soil they have limits on importing foreign cars as one per
| person and Chinese residents only. Likely protectionism
| motivated - it fits with their other foibles resulting in
| things like having iPhones they built smuggled back into their
| own country at a marked up price.
| ehwhyreally wrote:
| Tax is a bitch.
| tolbish wrote:
| I think you've confused smuggling with trafficking.
| rodgerd wrote:
| As it says in the fine article, China wants to encourage its
| own luxury and performance car making segment by restricting
| foreign imports.
| ufmace wrote:
| I think China has pretty strict limits and taxes on importing
| vehicles as a way to support local manufacturers.
| gruez wrote:
| > Smuggling implies that either the country of export doesn't
| want it going out, or the country of import doesn't want it
| coming in.
|
| Not really. You can be smuggling to evade taxes, eg. cigarette
| smuggling.
| sudosysgen wrote:
| It's often because the cars are stolen or to avoid paying
| import tax.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| It may be that you are not allowed to buy a car in Europe or
| the US and ship it to China _without paying Chinese import
| duties on it_.
| eptcyka wrote:
| I think China was trying to levy something like a a 50% or a
| 100% import tax on imported vehicles.
| baybal2 wrote:
| Yes, luxury imported vehicles are taxed anywhere in between
| 200% to 300%
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