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Comment Idol of the uneducated (Score 5, Informative) 110

Raoult has been for 5 years the idol of the educated. I suspect he would never had been famous if not for some clickbait Facebook posts with titles that would be easily mistaken for boomer traps nowadays, à la "He cures the Covid with this one weird trick, siontists hate him". It was clear from the beginning his claims were easy to disprove, but even then "I wouldn't even qualify for a first-aid Red Cross course"-types took it to the extreme and were happy to almost litterally drink bleach because it looked a similar treatement to his fungicide miracle cure. With no effect or at best on par with the null hypothesis.

Comment Actual value (Score 1) 205

The data, including the crypto credentials or whatever that shit it called, were worth pennies to the owner. They were at the time. That's actually the capital that he put into it.
These x bitcoins were de facto written off. The total supply is no longer 21M, it's 21M - (everyone's lost x). The total capitalization is based on 21M - (everyone's lost x) - (what's left to be mined).
If these x bitcoins are found back, it will de facto be like printing money, and will cause bitcoin inflation.

Comment Re: Android stack (Score 1) 11

XCTrack, used by many paragliding pilots as a flight computer, including navigation, and live tracking and upload to XContest flight repository.

On iOS they have FlySkyHy, which doesn't nearly cover half of what XCTrack offers.
Many iPhone users actually have a cheap Android just for Xctrack, but rarely with a SIM, so they don't have the online experience, neither sharing nor receiving.
And both systems are closed source, so a porting will not happen, nor a modding of the *inferior* FlySkyHy

Comment In Europe nobody uses iMessage (Score 4, Informative) 358

In Europe nobody uses iMessage. I don't own an iPhone, but I would receive way more fallback SMSes if my friends did. Only my luddite dad sends me SMSes and it's from a feature phone.
We have WhatsApp and Telegram. Have a wider set of features I ever would imagine compared to iMessage, and then again I don't have to imagine a lot because most of the features are more of 50% of your audience had Android

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