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Use the web link at the top. Even better is that you get an AMP version of the story.
The web link at which top? The link on news.ycombinator.com, which I was responding to, goes to a paywall teaser.
> N points by someone 2 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | N comments | favorite
The OP was referring to the one that says "web"
The subject says it all, but am I the only one who isn't a subscriber of the Wall Street Journal? Is there no free source on the Internet for this same piece of news? I'm not saying everything should be free. I build paid-for services on the web myself. But how is “To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In” useful on the Hacker News?
If Google refers you to the article from its search results, you can see the whole thing. Try searching for the headline!
Am I the only one who thinks this sucks? If so, I will bite my lip and shut up.
I believe in the open Internet. I don't even run an ad blocker for sites that aren't complete assholes with their ads.
But this is just stupid.
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Well, let's go through their other businesses. Samsung SDI is going to struggle in a World with cheap coal prices and political inclinations (cf. Trump campaign) to not care about environmental impacts. Samsung Heavy Industries is already struggling because of market demands for new container ships dropping off sharply in recent years - there has been a glut of supply for some years. Their Engineering and Constructio…
So they have a massively diversified business that faces many risks, just as others in those sectors do, but which is generally doing pretty well. One phone will not kill this. Having just bought a new Samsung washing machine, the story that they are exploding seems to have passed me by. I'm not a fanboi - I'm typing this on a Nexus 6 and considering another motorola next - I just think that saying this might be fata…
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The web link at which top? The link on news.ycombinator.com, which I was responding to, goes to a paywall teaser.
Just below the headline in hackernews, you'll see a small "toolbar" of links: > N points by someone 2 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | N comments | favorite The OP was referring to the one that says "web"
Let's just hope Rupert Murdoch doesn't sue us all.
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Could it have been an issue with the deign of the battery itself, so the failure would happen regardless of who manufactured the battery?
Why do batteries need to be unique for each model? Some laptop lines (e.g. Lenovo) share removable batteries among models with similar power needs. Same used to be true of phones which had removable batteries from the same phone vendor.
4 degrees later, we are all gone. The batteries remain, for a while. In 2135 CE, the last Samsung battery too will catch fire, starting an unstoppable wildfire that will consume much of Eurasia, along with whoever survived the previous social collapse. Then, only ashes will remain.
Fuck the pandas, save ourselves.
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Could it have been an issue with the deign of the battery itself, so the failure would happen regardless of who manufactured the battery?
Why do batteries need to be unique for each model? Some laptop lines (e.g. Lenovo) share removable batteries among models with similar power needs. Same used to be true of phones which had removable batteries from the same phone vendor.
(There's still plenty of phones with replaceable, more-or-less standardized batteries available… but it's $50-200 phones that nobody wants to buy because they're not sexy enough. Even though they've been fast enough for years…)
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>I don't know what to suggest other than looking for alternatives to HN. If you refuse to read the posted article, then you should choose not to participate in threads discussing it, rather than wasting valuable thread-space with off-topic complaints about the site's business model.
It's not about refusing to read an article, it's about it being difficult, if not impossible, to read it. If sites don't want the general public to read their content, we should respect that; the content probably isn't suitable for a free, open discussion site like HN.
Some people refuse to read any paywalled articles or attempt to work around them, and then insist that Hacker News should cater to them by not allowing those articles to be posted to begin with.
And yet discussion of those articles exists despite their objections, so obviously the problem isn't that the articles aren't accessible, or can't generate discussion, but that people are offended at the existence of paywalls and want their ideals to take priority over what can and can't be discussed here.
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If Google refers you to the article from its search results, you can see the whole thing. Try searching for the headline!
OK. So it's the old "Google for the URL or title" and you may get the content thing. Am I the only one who thinks this sucks? If so, I will bite my lip and shut up. I believe in the open Internet. I don't even run an ad blocker for sites that aren't complete assholes with their ads. But this is just stupid.
You sound entitled. Be glad you can use the google referral trick at all.
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It's obviously not good but yes, you were an idiot to say it could be the end of Samsung. They make everything from cutting edge phones to air-conditioning. One product in one business area going wrong like this is not going to be fatal.
Well, let's go through their other businesses. Samsung SDI is going to struggle in a World with cheap coal prices and political inclinations (cf. Trump campaign) to not care about environmental impacts. Samsung Heavy Industries is already struggling because of market demands for new container ships dropping off sharply in recent years - there has been a glut of supply for some years. Their Engineering and Constructio…
But you backpedalled on that point already as well, and no one, even the biggest fanboy, would argue that they are not going to have large problems. Like every large company somewhere on its track.