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Markoff

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About Markoff

I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.

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    Comment #49207519

    If you need smartwatch to know where your children are at 10 PM you failed as parent, especially considering these watch are for young kids, not some teenagers with phones.

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    Comment #49207496

    TLDR you still want money from your visitors, no matter whether to cover expenses or make profit, that's not what we call hospitality back here in central Europe. Hospitality is wh…

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    Comment #49207482

    Or maybe let's just not pretend people are inviting strangers into their gardens because they wanna meet them as that clickbait title pretend and not just to earn money.

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    Comment #49206060

    flagged Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids = clickbait title, that never happened, hacker done it in cooperation with the smartwatch owner

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    Comment #49206046

    TLDR to earn (tax free?) money, it has nothing to do with hospitality

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    Comment #49205979

    200 SNATCHED phones a day is insane number, I seriously doubt in 10 times smaller European cities you will find 20 people per day with someone snatching their phone

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    Comment #49205970

    Wouldn't disabling real time traffic data or using app not supporting real time traffic data solve this problem?

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    Comment #49205880

    If they think they will save money here on human dispatchers, they could not be more wrong, this will be sued into oblivion after first few deaths caused by AI incompetence to deal…

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    Comment #49196069

    Why would you uninstall them over disabling them? They make good point uninstalling is pointless, disabling achieves same purpose and it is safer. You can't use that system space a…

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    Comment #49196020

    just use Shizuku + Canta to remove it

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    Comment #49194145

    you can have Android without google play services and AI and it will be still less painful experience than trying to use Linux phone as your daily driver

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    Comment #49193754

    Maybe oligarchs? "An oligarch is a very rich business leader who holds a lot of political power. The word comes from ancient Greek words meaning "few" and "to rule". An oligarch is…

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    Comment #49182347

    not exactly news, many other countries have high heat alert across whole area for instance most of the Slovakia has highest 3rd level alert, lower 2nd level is only in mountains ht…

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    Comment #49182092

    whole title (since HN has so low title character limit...): ‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

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    Comment #49178978

    not viable solution for people in apartments, most of the cars in Prague sits on the street next to curb without any chargers nearby, I don't think there is any country which would…

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    Comment #49173485

    This exactly happened to me as well in beginning of July when I dared to contact my airbnb host from different country directly from web.whatsapp on computer just after adding thei…

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    Comment #49169300

    that's what I get for relying on Google, apparently also Audi and BMW sell diesel hybrids in Europe, other brands seem to be max 1 model of private cars https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

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    Hungary has come “within millimetres” of having to shut down its nuclear power plant overnight, prime minister Péter Magyar said, as low water levels in the Danube continue to pose…

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