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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by lobster_johnson on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:41AM (#15676757)
Given the number of not-up-to-spec cables on Amazon (there's that Google guy who reviews them and found a lot of them to be faulty), I would be extremely wary of buying anything USB on Alibaba.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by Milner08 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:58AM (#15676800)
Wasn't it only USB C he was finding issues with?
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by dmoy on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:12AM (#15676858)
Benson was focusing his efforts on usbc, presumably cus it's got a higher propensity for damage, what with the higher voltage and all. I wouldn't be surprised if he could find issues with non usbc stuff too though.
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Re:Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours by Scoundreller on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:12PM (#15677624)
> what with the higher voltage and all

I'd think the higher voltage would have fewer problems since there's less current and voltage drop... covering up for less-than-spec wire gauges.

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