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Ajef commented on Flow Batteries Are Here and They Will Change Everything medium.com/predict/flow-b... · Posted by u/socialdemocrat

exabrial · 3 years ago

Flow batteries have been in the news every year but I've yet to see a deployment other than this one. If they're so simple what is holding large scale implementation back?

Ajef · 3 years ago

The article has a link in it to: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/flow-batter...

If you scroll down there's a table 32.7 about Projects in China. A number of which, according to that table, are completed.

Ajef commented on EU Digital ID wallet is coming thalesgroup.com/en/worldw... · Posted by u/taubek

proc0 · 3 years ago

There's something inherently unsettling about government having so much control over people. I know EU is different but history proves EU is more vulnerable to having dictators. It's interesting how people don't see the danger here, and I can almost see history repeating itself, except on a different scale.

Where is this all going? I hope I'm wrong and it means some kind of utopia where people only enjoy the benefits of an all-knowing, all-seeing entity that has full control over your life, with none of the downsides. To me that seems highly unlikely, at least not without some heavy price paid along the way.

Ajef · 3 years ago

What power does the EU/its governments gain here? Aren't they already the only identity provider (passports, ID cards, drivers license)?

Ajef commented on Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? · Posted by u/legrande

zozbot234 · 3 years ago

> From a users perspective having one account for reddit which replaces x accounts for specialized forums makes things easier such as managing notifications, etc.

Forum platforms could offer the same feature by interoperating with the Fediverse. You can sign up on one server and use that one identity to post content elsewhere. (Plus it also addresses the issue of needing a mobile native UX, there's plenty of apps that can interact with the Fediverse.)

Ajef · 3 years ago

Notifications are just one aspect. As mentioned by others discoverability is another. An independent forum has to compete with commercial sites and well the entire www regarding search engine placement to be found.

Ajef commented on Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? · Posted by u/legrande

oofnik · 3 years ago

I would say Reddit, more so than any other of the potential replacements you mentioned, has taken on the role of hosting topic-based discussion which used to be the domain of forums.

It's part of the relentless push toward greater resource allocation efficiency. Just as it is orders of magnitude more efficient to distribute perishable goods through a centralized corporate supermarket chain rather than a patchwork of independent corner markets, Reddit reduces the total amount of operations overhead that once went in to maintaining thousands of independent vBulletin / phpBB / Discourse instances in the aggregate.

With all the recent talk about supply chain resilience and the inherent trade-offs necessary to improve it, one might wonder whether such considerations might be weighed differently going forward.

Ajef · 3 years ago

In addition: From a users perspective having one account for reddit which replaces x accounts for specialized forums makes things easier such as managing notifications, etc.

Ajef commented on Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

throwaway290 · 4 years ago

If you were an infection that wanted to survive and spread as far as possible, you wouldn't want to kill your host at all.

In fact, if your host lives for as long as possible without suffering any negative effects from your freeloading, is preferred by mates and most loved by peers, etc., that's when you spread the furthest.

Seeing it as a nefarious plot to kill as many as possible (by prolonging incubation periods, etc.) is humans thinking in terms of how their species behaved in the past. In fact there is only maladjustment.

Ajef · 4 years ago

> If you were an infection that wanted to survive and spread as far as possible, you wouldn't want to kill your host at all.

You may be oversimplifying here... consider that the host has an immune system and the infection has a limited time to either live in the host or to kill the host and remain in an infectious corpse for a while longer afterward.

Ajef commented on Strippers say a recession is guaranteed b/C the strip clubs are suddenly empty indy100.com/viral/strippe... · Posted by u/Victerius

Ajef · 4 years ago

I've heard of this indicator from back in 2008. I guess it applies to cities with major stock exchanges where lots of traders/bankers go. It's probably too early to take this indicator too seriously considering the slump in stocks and the events in crypto. But that doesn't mean it should be disregarded either.

Ajef commented on EU law will force Apple to blow open its entire hardware and software stack appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/stale2002

s__s · 4 years ago

This doesn’t sit well with me at all. Apple should have every right to create a closed system if they want. Why not? And in fact, an Apple that’s forced to do otherwise isn’t Apple anymore. The walled garden is one of their unique value propositions.

There are options for the incredibly small percentage of folks who want completely open systems. So what exactly is the problem they’re trying to address?

Like the never ending bombardment of cookie pop-ups plastered over top of everything, the EU seems intent to continually etch their mark on everyone’s lives. All I see is lazy, half baked ideas and petty bureaucracy.

Ajef · 4 years ago

> This doesn’t sit well with me at all. Apple should have every right to create a closed system if they want.

I disagree. In general a company should have the right to create a closed system sure. But if said company is this huge and essentially shapes a large part of digital society then the representatives of the people (it's governments) should take action to shape it in the interest of their populations. Now if that's what's happening I cannot say. Perhaps it is more like you describe it:

> All I see is lazy, half baked ideas and petty bureaucracy.

Ajef commented on First human injected with cancer-killing virus in clinical trial cancer.gov/about-cancer/t... · Posted by u/sizzle

Hackbraten · 4 years ago

On Firefox, this page shows me just skeleton placeholders where the text is supposed to be, and nothing ever loads. Even with content blockers disabled.

Ajef · 4 years ago

Same on my desktop with Chrome, Firefox and Edge as well as on my Android device (Firefox, DuckDuckGo-Browser). I can see the text shortly while the page is still loading.

Ajef commented on Ask HN: Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews? · Posted by u/Avalaxy

nicoburns · 4 years ago

I was going to post "not normal at all", but then I noticed you mentioned recruiters. Are these 3rd party recruiters you are going through (i.e. not employed in-house by the companies)? If so you might want to consider the possibility that the recruiter is claiming to have scheduled an interview that the company hadn't really properly agreed to or were pressured into.

But in general when dealing directly with a company I'd say: no reply to an application is completely normal, but not turning up to scheduled interview is not at all.

Ajef · 4 years ago

With third party recruiters there can be many reasons (in another comment i mentioned some). But if it's a third party recruiter then this seems to be a pattern... find someone new.

[edit]: If you don't trust them. It might also be advisable to ask your data be deleted and recend permission of them sending your cv, name or other data to companies.

Ajef commented on Ask HN: Is it normal to be ghosted for senior position job interviews? · Posted by u/Avalaxy

crate_barre · 4 years ago

You want me to make up something nice to make everyone’s day delightful? I didn’t make this world.

Ajef · 4 years ago

Are you saying you've experienced this or know people who have?

Personally I have not experienced this or know anyone who has (I'm in EU if it matters).

In response to the original post: In each case you refer to a recruiter. Is this an external recruiter (and always the same one) or an HR person at the company you wish to work for? If it is (an external recruiter) then I can imagine it being something that has little to do with you (Maybe the recruiter is requesting advance payment or unreasonable amounts, demanding all further communication go through them to ensure they get paid/have evidence of having "recruited" you, have terms that say they get paid if an interview takes place or whatever).

If that is not the case it seems odd to me that you wouldn't simply get some kind of message along the lines of:

"We are sorry for your inconvenience but we have already filled the position in question. The interview will no longer be necessary."

[edit]: clarification