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Comment author: JoshuaFox 06 February 2013 06:13:13AM 2 points [-]

At the end of every year,

To get in a habit, you should donate more often, e.g., monthly, even if only a little.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 06 February 2013 06:50:15PM 1 point [-]

I vaguely remember talk of having an iphone/android app that allowed you to quickly donate a little bit to SI/MIRI (/CFAR as well now) any time you had the urge to purchase fuzzies. This seems like a great way to get into the habit as well. Anyone know if it has it been implemented?

Comment author: lukeprog 06 February 2013 07:56:04PM 3 points [-]

We looked into the the thing that would let people donate to MIRI by sending a text message to a certain number, but it was prohibitively expensive.