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Help the Internet Archive - their offices were destroyed in a fire
- jason_slack 13y agoThe title here is misleading. "Their offices" were not destroyed. The office involved was just a single office used for scanning content. That being said. They are an amazing resource that I have used a few times to obtain copies of content that I had lost.
- caboteria 13y agoWhy not cut out the middleman? https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/
- agwa 13y agoThe crowdfunding campaign will probably be more effective at raising money for this. Fortunately, there is effectively no middleman here, according to the campaign's description: > * I've spoken with June from the IA, who will ensure that funds go directly to them. > * Crowdtilt has agreed to waive their card processing fee!
- louprado 13y agoDoes crowdtilt only accept credit cards? Fortunately https://archive.org/donate/ https://archive.org/donate/ accepts PayPal and other methods. Personally, I only impulse donate to small causes and having finding my CC is enough to make me "just do it later" (aka, forget to do it at all).
- lectrick 13y agoThis is also how you can donate with Bitcoins. The crowdfunding site doesn't seem to allow that option.
- givehimagun 13y agoNaive question: what portion of this would be covered by insurance?
- giarc 13y agoI think it is too early to start a campaign to raise funds. They first need to meet with their insurance provider to find out what is covered and what is not, then go to the public for funding. Unless they were grossly under insured and knew it, 1 day isn't enough time to determine what's covered.
- Arelius 13y agoWorst case, they get money that they didn't need for the repairs. And they put it to good use doing one of the many other things this super valuable (IMO) non-profit does. They are after all a non-profit.
- giarc 13y agoTrue. But some people may feel cheated if they donated for a very specific reason and find out they were fully covered by insurance.
- nathanb 13y agoI must be naive too, then, because this is what I thought at first. Anything that gets dollars into the hands of the archive.org folks is fine with me, but this is what insurance policies are for.
- poopsintub 13y agoDo they even own the place, it looks like it's probably rented. How much will it cost to replace a desk and a computer?
- jlgreco 13y agoApparently they lost scanning equipment.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoThe article's only five paragraphs; maybe you could try reading it? "High-end digitizing equipment" isn't cheap. Just one big archival scanner can run $5000-$10,000 or more, and they had quite a few of those, probably specialized/customized.
- Semaphor 13y agoI used the fire as an excuse to finally set up a monthly donation for them. They deserve it.
- cicloid 13y agoI'm doing the same right now
- HCIdivision17 13y agoThanks to the headline, I finally remembered to set that up, too. I suspect that if they need anymore money after insurance and such, the most effective time is to fund raise immediately. Hopefully it doesn't happen again, but maybe that's a silver lining!
- andrewtbham 13y agoDid Tesla build their office?
- andrewtbham 13y agodownvote away humorless nerds.
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- untog 13y agoHN isn't really the place for punny jokes. Take them to Reddit.
- AznHisoka 13y agoSomeone call a surgeon. Someone's ego was hurt.
- corin_ 13y agoI'm not sure this is the site for you if you use "nerds" as an insult.
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- smoyer 13y agoWhat about us nerds who appreciate humor?
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoWell, I wasn't gonna, but since you asked...
- mrfixit 13y agoYour reddit is leaking. Mop it up.
- Procrastes 13y agodonated. Slightly off topic, but I really like Crowdtilt's payment dialog. That was easily the lowest friction payment box I've seen. I wonder who designed it? Looking at their terms, it looks like they're using Balanced Payments, was it an internal design or inspired by some Balance Payments widget?
- jjb123 13y agoThanks :). We designed it in-house. One of the great benefits of balanced and stripe is complete customizability of not only the look and feel, but also of which fields to include/leave.
- sp332 13y agoAnother photo just posted on Tracey Jaquith's twitter @tracy_pooh https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYfLJp2CEAAA7cU.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYfLJp2CEAAA7cU.jpg:large
- sp332 13y agoAh I fat-fingered that, for the record it's tracey_pooh with an 'e'.
- smoyer 13y agoI'm using FireFox 25.0 and I got a notice about my browser not being new enough ... I never win!