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Markoff
2,756karma·3,266submissions·December 31, 2016
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I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
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AFAIK this is rarity in smartphones and most are charged through battery, which is why those few which have it advertise their direct/bypass charging feature
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bringing something (like bottle of wine) while visiting someone is pretty normal everywhere around even when invited now asking people you invited for money to cover your expenses, certainly is not no…
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I've had serious issues with my wrist in June (after decades of sitting in front of computer for most of the worktime), it hurt when bent or when using it for almost any load. I tried painkiller …
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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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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 when you don'…
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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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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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TLDR to earn (tax free?) money, it has nothing to do with hospitality
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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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Wouldn't disabling real time traffic data or using app not supporting real time traffic data solve this problem?
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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 with non-standard s…
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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 anyway. if you d…
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just use Shizuku + Canta to remove it
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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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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 oligar…
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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 https://www…
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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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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 have chargers …
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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 their contact.. Immediat…
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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/w…
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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 challenges for coun…