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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.

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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!

Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!

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.

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.

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!

'Fish Tacos [X]' where X is the name of the city - or turning on your region toggle is usually enough to solve that problem.

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.

Or, simply not try and skirt EU anti-trust regulation by a pay-to-play bidding system.

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

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We agree that general skepticism is healthy, and try to make clear that any element which has its placement changed, or elevated because of a financial incentive is labelled as an ad.

If there is something unclear about that, we'd always love to hear more user feedback!

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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 academic content.

Third, accreditation is an optional standard for accepting Government funding for Universities and Colleges and doesn't apply to elementary and secondary schools (other than charter/private schools), each state's board of education sets the terms for a schools status and that's why they can also require laws like this.

after all you can't penalize someone if they legitimately believe that the Earth was made by Xenu.

Correct, you cannot penalize them for believing that, but, you can penalize them if they don't put the correct academic or scientific answer on a test. If they put both answers, you must ignore the religious content.

You're not reading this correctly through religious lenses.

Correct, this isn't religious texts. It's a law, and in the US court systems there are standards in how we interpret legal language.

If this were as innocent as you say then there would be no reason to create it as that's the status quo.

That's nonsense. There are multiple types of laws. there are those that prosecute for a violation of them, those that protect from a violation of them and those that enshrine your rights. This is the latter.

Right now, there is nothing on the books to say that a young Muslim student in rural Ohio who wrote a paper on morality but mentioned Allah, could not in turn be marked wrong by their Christian teacher even if they met all the parameters of the assignment. Such a case is absolutely worth defending.

You're not reading this correctly through religious lenses. It also does nothing to protect atheists unless there's some other part of the bill that covers it as atheism isn't a religion.

Thank you for noting that you read the clickbait article and not the actual law. The entire law substantially includes rights for students to take time to pray, meditate, reflect on morality, or things of a philosophical or patriotic value to them, and gives them the right to opt-out of any such activities in the classroom that do not reflect their beliefs, their parents beliefs or the lack thereof.

For something that is trying to be painted as an archaic pro-christian only law, this law is remarkably balanced and takes into considerations other religions, other systems of belief and the lack of any belief and enshrines them all quite equally.

This law is not perfect, but, from reading the text I cannot fault the intention of it the way that so many have.

Will it be misused and need to be challenged in courts? Absolutely. Most young laws do need to evolve through that process of refinement and clarity.

But, I don't see anything here that merits being demonized.

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 freedom of speech or the press, or the right of the people of peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Marking a child wrong (or right) on a test, is not an act of congress, nor would it be infringing on the rights of the individual to practice their belief.

This clause is protecting that if a student has the right answer, we should avoid weighing any additional belief within it - and while it likely will need a few court cases to clarify all the tests within it, the law seems to be well within the spirit of upholding, expanding and protecting things that first amendment tangential but not currently protected by the first amendment.

We should always interpret things with the best intentions and most reasonable explanations until proven otherwise. In this case, the law is written in a manner that is neutral and prevents penalization or award for content from any religion. If their intention was to accept religious answers, the law would have strictly focused on preventing penalization, or be trying to push the legitimacy of specific beliefs.

Sidenote: The ACLU does a good job of outlining what IS protected within the first amendment according to religion and schools: https://www.aclu.org/other/your-right-religious-freedom

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.

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 community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, or board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments. Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance, including any legitimate pedagogical concerns, and shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student's work.

This suggests, that, you may not penalize OR REWARD a student because their work contains religious references. However, the work is still to be marked using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance.

So if a student said that "The world was created 6000 years ago" on a science test, then they are still marked wrong. If they said "I believe the world was created 6000 years ago, but scientists say that it is 4.543 billion years old" then the student should be marked right for providing the correct answer, and their religious view should not be considered or weighted.

Further, if a student was making a moral argument about a character in a novel for an English paper, if they referenced morality as coming from god, they shouldn't be penalized for that if the paper still is a strong well formed academic work that assesses the themes in the book.

The other sections of this bill actually do a lot to protect the individual rights of anyone religious (whether Christian or otherwise) and atheists, by disallowing school boards to prevent you from practicing your beliefs and requiring that they allow time for prayer, meditation or reflection, as well as allowing students to opt-out of any such activity without repercussion.

This law is being constantly painted as some draconian attempt to allow wrong-answers based on religious belief, and it simply doesn't even come close to doing that.

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, but, lack the credit rating, history or collateral to use other lenders.

It's a very carefully and cleverly thought out payment model, which leads me to believe they knew exactly which consumer base they were going after.

Thanks - appreciate that and I'll double check the link.

Because I'm still a bit confused at what Lisp is!

So, if I was to boil it down, its like "Hey, use Python, but with a different writing style you are used to."?

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 language of Lisp", and using it to write "domain specific languages."

Is this just a way to use Python libraries in Lisp (which seems to be a low level programming language?)

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