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Cuba is only one example. Most of Latin America and East Asia is in the 65-80%. It's first in Africa you find very low numbers, down to 0.2% in the Congo.

Ugh. Many global south countries have more vaccinated as a percentage of the population than the US. The reason some countries are having a very low percentage of vaccinated is not IP but lack of organizational will. As an example, dirt-poor Cuba has developed two vaccines in-house and 86% of the population is fully vaccinated.

Hey. Thanks man! It's just pronounced like its spelled. In IPA: okeˈanɔ.

That's an incredible site and airplane design. Would be awesome if the last scene in the promo video shows the plane flying & gaining altitude just above orcas speeding and jumping over the water right before it says Fly freely. Prob demands CGI.

Thanks!

Since I watched Free Willy and later seeing one at close range on the coast of Cuba (Cojimar) I've been so fascinated by orcas, I made them the logo and somewhat end goal of my startup [1].

[1] https://okeano.com

Just keep it simple. This is our privacy policy at Okeano: https://okeano.com/privacy. It contains 1075 characters.

There are three types:

- CS person who has in-depth understanding of how computers works and mathematics. Typically writes code in a low-level language, can write a compiler, mostly will solve computer problems that indirectly solve problems at a consumer level.

- Developer person who is analytical and has a good grasp of mathematics. Can build tools to be used by other developer persons. Uses high-level languages to solve problems at a consumer level.

- Hacker person who uses tools built by the CS and developer person to solely solve problems at a consumer level.

It means they are designed to be rendered at approximately 24x24 pixels.

This is something people here either choose to ignore or can't understand. "Cuba has free healthcare" -- at a very high human cost. When the government controls all resources and gets to make all decisions, it's easy to put all that into a free mega med school for the world. The USSR had an impressive space program but people were dirt-poor and oppressed. That said, the famous healthcare system was built during the time the country was being heavily subsidized by the USSR. Today the country is so decapitalized hospitals are in ruins and there is corruption at every level because doctors earn so little.

Anybody above 160 cm consumes too much energy so we only hire below that for a greener planet.

Shameless plug: I run okeano.com, a privacy friendly search engine. We support natively blocklists [0].

[0] https://okeano.com/blocklist

> Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups.

Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied.

> Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private.

We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing.

Icons are proxied by DDG, so no data leaking there.

Bing's API requires you provide them with an IP address and results are personalized to that address. Because DDG shows the same results to everybody, I assume they have a special deal with DDG and no PII is being sent to Bing.

Disclaimer: I run https://okeano.com, a private search engine.

That assumes government wants less of itself...

With * government.

Shameless plug: https://okeano.com is a search engine that respects your privacy, doesn't require an extension and aims to spend 80% of profits to purchase river interceptors and deploy them to the most polluting rivers in the world.

We have !waves (similar to !bangs) and support natively domain blocklisting.

Shameless plug,.. I run Okeano [1], a privacy friendly [2] search engine. We support domain blocklisting [3] natively and have !waves (similar to !bangs).

[1] https://okeano.com

[2] https://okeano.com/privacy

[3] https://okeano.com/blocklist

Hi. Thank you! I try to keep the UI clean and simple. It's nice to hear somebody appreciates that.

Regarding results, I wrote an answer to that question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717814

That 4chan results page is embarrassing indeed. Currently many things in the pipeline, but will fix.

If you find any quirks, my email is in my profile.

- David

Hi, good catch. I have answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25724252

Hi. We are not making money yet so no reports to show -- but I agree a 404 is a terrible way to explain that. Will fix, thanks.

Thank you. Yes, working on it.

It's only 22 kb of JS and at least 2/3 of that is Axios which I'm about to replace with Fetch.. but I understand :)

In the pipeline!

Hi. Thank you.

We don't serve ads yet, but when we do the answer is yes. More users give the search engine more leverage when negotiating with advertisers and also the networking effect is important. That is, even if you don't click on ads you probably will share the search engine with somebody else.

- David

It uses Bing as a backup and for most general search. We have our own index that focuses on specific communities, including HN. Eventually you'll see more tailored search for that index, including a "privacy rank" and page size.

Yes, I think this is a good idea. Might make this optional or as an alternative. Added to the pipeline.

In the pipeline!

We aren't running ads.. yet. Need more users before we can make a contract where we aren't required by the ad company to send user data.

Paid plan has been on my mind for a while now.. and as you said, it's complicated. It's in the pipeline.

Yes, sorry. Have to fix that. We are not making money yet so no reports to show.

The two noteworthy aspects are: 1) if you click on an ad on startpage, you're inside Google's network. If you click on an ad on the duck, you're inside Bing's network. 2) the duck is independent and startpage is owned by an advertising company.