>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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Foremost, thank you for your service! I really, really want DDG to be successful and I'm glad to know the feedback doesn't /dev/null. If I might be so bold as to suggest that hiding the "Send Feedback" in the bottom right is a very opaque location for what is arguably a vital interaction DDG has with its users.
While I have an insider: I see a lot of mentions in the threads about folks who use "!g" or "!sp" -- are those counted as votes of suboptimal DDG results? I could see it going either way: it's a bad metric for those users who just default to doing it, but it's a good metric for searches that end in the frustration of a series of bad DDG results
Could you consider making a list of common feedback items that already have resolutions? I imagine it would make a popular HN submission in addition to a useful FAQ.
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
One time I was at a festival where it wouldn't stop raining. It had been a shit show. Come Monday, all the cars were stuck in mud. Then there were tornado warnings. Then they let down a damn up river and the whole area started to flood. Whilst holding down a shade structure, waiting for updates on the tornado path, and standing in slowly rising water, someone made the joke:
... that's better than a lot of postmortems I've had on the job. Like the junior employee who insisted we not write one at all when we lost the ability to deploy to a test server, because "that wasn't our fault" and "it probably won't happen again".
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.
In the article they explicitly talk about this, the technical term is that it is spread by aerosols (basically, smaller droplets) in addition to droplets. This is similar to TB, which generally requires patients to stay in negative pressure rooms and their caregivers to wear N95 instead of surgical masks.
As with all things with infectious diseases (like asymptomatic spread) it's less useful to ask whether it's possible to spread in a certain way, and better to ask whether that way is a large driver of new infections. For hospital workers, maybe; for the general public, probably not.
This isn't the LA Times saying it spread through the air:
>The outbreak has stunned county health officials, who have concluded that the virus was almost certainly transmitted through the air from one or more people without symptoms.
Aerosols don't need to hit a surface to end up in someone else's lungs.
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.
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.