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Comment · 5 years ago
>If it would be carbon negative show me where it removed CO2 from the air and how it is stored now "forever".

If you read the article you'll note that they are specifically doing that in partnership with Stripe's climate program which funds startups who do, at signifgant cost, physically remove the CO2 from the air and sequester it.

Comment · 5 years ago
Seems you didn't read the article, as they expressly aren't planting trees nor is the offsetting what makes them carbon negative.

The offsetting is one thing but they are also funding credits to startups that physically remove carbon from the air and sequestering it in these carbon capture programs.

Comment · 5 years ago
The offset credits are gold standard credits that have to remove the carbon with in a set timeframe of their existence, be audited, and have a positive human impact.

For each credit worth of carbon DDG activities do, they are offsetting 1.25 credits worth of carbon through purchasing those credits.

But, further still they are then buying additional credits through startups that actually remove carbon from the air and sequester it, as it outlines in the article.

Comment · 5 years ago
If users are using the DuckDuckGo mobile app or extension its baked in tracker blocker does block a lot of analytics tools so there is likely a large level of under reporting especially on the mobile side.
Comment · 5 years ago
When you come across these, be sure to use the "Send Feedback" button in the bottom right. User feedback is an important part of improving in a non-tracking environment.
Comment · 5 years ago
As the person who just read through feedback today, I can assure you that each piece of feedback sent is received, read and logged by real humans who care and more importantly deeply appreciate the fact that users take time to send feedback :)
Comment · 6 years ago
FWIW - it isn't entirely wrong, the wiki says: "Ringworm is a disease caused by infection of the skin by fungus, appearing as scaly, ring-shaped patches." then it goes on to describe it in Harry Potter

But yeah should be looked at!

Comment · 6 years ago
Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
Comment · 6 years ago
This seems like poor reporting.

Even droplet based spread (which is not airborne) can transfer over distances on to surfaces. This is why there is advisory for a 6+ ft physical distance.

That does not mean it is an airborne disease, as it seems the virus needs to survive in droplets.

It is no surprise to me that a choir singing could easily spread droplets on to surfaces and inadvertently touch their faces during that time.

Even a heavy breath that expels air and droplets from the lung can cause spread. That doesn't mean its airborne.

Comment · 6 years ago
Gitcoin does this.

It's a tool where users post bounties for features. Usually the owner of an open source project would set up a bounty and say "$xxx to fix this" and open source developers can apply to work on the problem, once its approved they get the funds.

But, if community members really value the project they can chip in more funding to the issue.

Currently the system is set up to use Ethereum and DAI (an ethereum USD stablecoin) to handle transactions, and Gitcoin's smart contract acts as the escrow account for the work.

Comment · 6 years ago
Do you have the UK toggle turned on? Improving local results internationally is a major priority for the team currently - if you find queries where this isn't working well, hitting the feedback button in the bottom right of the screen is a huge help!
Comment · 6 years ago
'Fish Tacos [X]' where X is the name of the city - or turning on your region toggle is usually enough to solve that problem.
Comment · 6 years ago
Brit from Ontario here and have to agree. The problem is roundabouts were never on the Canadian drivers test until a few years ago and no one knows the rules.

Plus, the Canadian design of putting the pedestrian crosswalk, right at the roundabout and having cars stop in the roundabout to yield to a waiting pedestrian adds additional risk.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for the feedback - I've made sure this is logged internally.

It looks like it may have been an edge case around capitalization where "meteo roma" was working and "meteo Roma" wasn't.

We can only find cases like this when users report them - so if you run into one again, feel free to use the feedback button on the bottom-right hand side of the screen! :)

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