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by AdamSC1 5y 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 clim
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by AdamSC1 5y 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 car
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by AdamSC1 5y 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 1.2
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by AdamSC1 6y 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.
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by AdamSC1 6y 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.
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by AdamSC1 6y 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
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by AdamSC1 6y 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 look
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by AdamSC1 6y ago
Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
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by AdamSC1 6y 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 s
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by AdamSC1 6y 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,
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by AdamSC1 7y 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
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by AdamSC1 7y 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.
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by AdamSC1 7y 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 round
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
Or, simply not try and skirt EU anti-trust regulation by a pay-to-play bidding system. DuckDuckGo tweet thread + link to research on choice screens: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1215307399978016774
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by AdamSC1 7y 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 cas
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
You can use duck.com
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
Hi blululu, You'll notice when you search for an item like "Airpods" the shopping instant answer appears including products from Amazon. The top right of that placement ( https://i.imgur.com/EIpFjVR.png ) you&#
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
There won't have been any major change in the past few months that would have negatively impacted your search results. If you have any specific examples you can always reach out via the feedback box or to staff directly :)
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
If you find issues with localized search be sure to report them with examples of what sites would give better results locally!
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
Not sure when you last tried the app but it does indeed support tabs!
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
>Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc) The ToS you are referring to is for companies without custom deals in place. You can read DuckDuckGo's priv
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
You should re-read some of the answers above. First off, it doesn't allow homeschooling to do anything different than it already does. Second, you cannot penalize nor reward a student for the religious content in the answer only the ac
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
The First Amendment is far too frequently invoked when it isn't relevant. The First Amendment says that "Congress will make no law respecting the establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging freed
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
It specifically says that a student cannot be penalized OR rewarded for the religious portion of the answer and it must be marked on academic merit and substance. That does not mean they get marks for what they believe.
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
So if this WERE the case, I'd be against it. But, this is clickbait journalism at its finest. If we read the actual text of the law: > No school district board of education, As Passed by the House governing authority of a communit
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
It seems a bit as though the model is set up for independent operators and 'Mum & Pop' shops that use Stripe but don't have the business acumen to see the issue. Or, people who have a good history of selling with Stripe,
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
Thanks - appreciate that and I'll double check the link. Because I'm still a bit confused at what Lisp is!
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
So, if I was to boil it down, its like "Hey, use Python, but with a different writing style you are used to."?
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
Anyone got an ELI5 on the goal of this language, or the pros and cons? I'm not a dev, but, a Python user with a background in data/info science - so I'm a bit unclear on what Wikipedia means by things like "a dialect lan
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by AdamSC1 7y ago
I don't think this is what you are looking for, but, it put me in mind of the book Spurious Correlation that shows how easy it is for things to seem related: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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