tvanantwerp

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by tvanantwerp 12y ago
At least people might honestly believe Lerner and the IRS lost 2 years of email. That level of incompetence is expected of bureaucrats, and it's harder to prove misconduct than if you hid communications through an alias like Lisa Jacks
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by tvanantwerp 12y ago
I work at a 501(c)(3), and direct mail is absolutely worthwhile. Maybe 1.5-3% of recipients of a prospecting piece actually respond, and they probably won't make up for the cost of the mailing. However, those respondents then get more
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by tvanantwerp 12y ago
I didn't look too closely, but I'm assuming one side is the smoker and the other is the non-smoker. Knowing that I don't smoke, and how my own physique compares to these photos, I'm forced to conclude that smoking will c
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
I work at a think tank, and no, this is not what think tanks are. (Not most, anyway.)
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
"No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either lo
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
I find the methodology questionable. First, build a list of denier organizations based on anyone who has ever been remotely associated with known climate-deniers. This includes being labeled a conservative organization. Second, classify the
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
Climate change tends to be a small (if even existent) policy area addressed by most of these think tanks. It's highly misleading claim that all revenue over several years was used exclusively by these think tanks to deny climate change
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
Whatever you think of him, I think Julian Assange answers this question quite well in the introduction to Cypherpunks: "The platonic nature of the internet, ideas and information flows, is debased by its physical origins. Its foundatio
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
A lot of folks here are suggesting that Google's status as a primary source of revenue for Mozilla does NOT leave Mozilla beholden to Google's wishes. Without arguing if this is true or not, I'd like to ask a follow-up: are n
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
By using a contest format and only offering $500 to the winner, you're significantly limiting the talent pool of designers. Designers who are good--and know that they are--probably wouldn't design a logo for a guaranteed $500, muc
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
To everyone complaining that companies just want to pack in more lobbyists: There are lots of non-lobbyists in DC, you know? Some of those people include blue collar workers, people on minimum wage, and even nonprofit employees trying to sc
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
I can't really see Ayn Rand supporting the seizure of property over unpaid taxes. I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, but it's pretty easy to figure out what she does or doesn't believe in from her writings. And taxes are definitel
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
Maybe it's because I work for a nonprofit, but this piece seems like speculation and paranoia. Oh, so this group Peers is actually funded by a handful of wealthy patrons? Guess what--all nonprofits make 90%+ of their revenues from the
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
> criminals and governments You repeat yourself.
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by tvanantwerp 13y ago
If you try this, be sure you don't half-ass it. I tried a standing desk, but couldn't raise the desk I had high enough. I tried putting my mouse and keyboard on top of other objects to give extra height, but eventually gave up bec