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There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is Winning
- dis-sys 9y agothe article is pay walled.
- paulsutter 9y agoClick on the web link at the top of this page then the article
- greglindahl 9y agoThe "facebook referer" thing worked for me.
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- TekMol 9y agoWelcome to Hacker News. Initiation ritual: Find a way to read this WSJ article.
- kbenson 9y agoSecond step, find out how to get notified about replies. It would be really interesting to know how the community at large deals with this, but I suspect something akin to the Observer Effect makes it a a catch-22.
- craigds 9y agoAre you suggesting there's actually a way?
- kbenson 9y agoI'm suggesting that there are numerous ways around some of the limitations of this site, such as the lack of reply notification or inability to reply quickly in a chain of many quick replies in a thread. Sometimes it's an escape hatch built into the site, other times someone has already decided to solve the problem and share. If all else fails, you can try to design your own solution. The hacker ethos invites careful observation and exploration mixed with out of the box thinking. Whether this site purposefully aims for that or accidentally encourages it is irrelevant.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoTry using your preferred web search engine for hn replies. http://www.hnreplies.com/ http://www.hnreplies.com/ - maintained by user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThere is also a third initiation step involving the commenting system, but I'm not going to say what it is, because the rule is: if you must ask, you're not ready for it :).
- NegativeLatency 9y agoLooks like someone inserted a smart apostrophe and attempted to escape it leading to a visible /’ in the caption of one of the later pictures.
- Kyragem 9y agoWho needs batteries when trump promises to bring back coal??
- joss82 9y agoThink about it: you still need batteries for when you run out of coal.
- sctb 9y agoWe've already asked you to please post civilly and substantively, like the guidelines ask, so we've banned the account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start doing so. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bloak 9y agoMr President, we must not allow a battery gap!
- sam_goody 9y agoThis is a reference to Dr. Strangelove[1] Whatever the enemy does (there, Russia building mine shafts) we must do to counter. A humorous classic which explains a mindset and was far closer to the truth than people like to admit. Worth a view. Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. [1] https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c00b94e5-bbb3-4ea9-a078-7a1a21b87bc5 https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c00b94e5-bbb3-4ea9-a078-7a1...
- nosefouratyou 9y agohttps://qz.com/1004330/north-korea-is-sitting-on-trillions-of-dollars-on-untapped-wealth-and-its-neighbors-want-a-piece-of-it/ https://qz.com/1004330/north-korea-is-sitting-on-trillions-o... As mentioned in Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect.
- NicoJuicy 9y agoFree of paywall: https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/theres-a-global-race-to-control-batteriesand-china-is-winning-1518374815 https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
- draluy 9y agoThanks!
- che_shirecat 9y agoWhat’s with HN’s weird obsession with China? Every other day it’s a new sensationalized headline about how China is somehow taking over AI, or startups, or the world. Is China just a easy catalyst for American insecurity or is there some other trend that I’m missing here?
- legulere 9y agoAnti-Chinese sentiment in the United States has a long tradition that continues on to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment_in_the_...
- ckastner 9y agoArticles of the sort "<country> is taking over AI, or startups, or the world" would be interesting to HN regardless of the actual <country> in question. China just happens to be the <country> in question, in a number of current cases.
- em500 9y agoChina is the second largest economy in the world and will likely be the largest one in within one or two decades. Is it really that strange that it's often in the news? In Europe, the USA still makes the news far more often than China, so here we all have a "weird obsession" with the USA.
- HumanDrivenDev 9y ago> China is the second largest economy in the world and will likely be the largest one in within one or two decades. Based on what data? Of the 31 provinces, direct-controlled municipalities and autonomous regions in China, three have already admitted falsifying certain economic data. Starting with the northeastern province of Liaoning in January 2017, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the city of Tianjin have said their statistics were wrong. Of the three, only Tianjing has admitted doctoring the overall provincial gross domestic product figures. Liaoning and Inner Mongolia had padded something else: their fiscal revenues. In Liaoning Province tax receipts and income from various fees were padded by 20-30% according to counties and cities during the period of 2011-2014. Inner Mongolia has said that a quarter of the fiscal revenue stated for 2016 were actually fake. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Chinese-local-governments-rush-to-admit-fake-data https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Chi...
- lazyjones 9y agoI'm probably not the only one asking myself whether Cobalt is really necessary for competitive batteries: http://www.electronicdesign.com/power/race-cobalt-free-rechargeable-batteries http://www.electronicdesign.com/power/race-cobalt-free-recha...