In Washington State we only have vote by mail. It's works really well. You can drop your ballot off at special ballot boxes (like at libraries or city hall or us mail the ballots. At first they only had mail-in ballots in seattle, other places didn't want to pay for them. Then they noticed that there was a good bit more voting because of the convenience and then they insisted on having mail in voting. Once you do it, it seems stupid to try anything else. You can track if your ballot was received and if your signature was approved. If it was lost then (before the election), you can print out a new ballot and send it in provisionally (with you id etc, they have to know if you already voted). It's the only way to go.

Just because the US might have the best, there are obvious answers to why we have h1-b visas. First, there probably are not enough devs in the us to cover all our needs. Second, we are probably not cheaper than foreign educated people, at least at first. Since there's a massive shortage of dev talent, but probably not a massive shortage of IT, that explains why there's a trend of bringing in cheaper external people for it jobs. There are people outside the us who can be talented devs, but I think because their training is less (in general, not in all cases!) this makes it harder for them to succeed in more demanding dev jobs, but they can do fine in easier jobs.

Crap, meant to say "does not mark up prices"

Starbucks does mark prices up 100s of percent over their competitors. In my area their prices are average, maybe cheap even

What can be lost is the banks records. Also records of paychecks, who paid bills. That hurts the poor more than me

Pence lies frequently. Recent example was pence trying to explain that Trump didn't lie when Trump claimed all living presidents supported him building the wall. Pence is an idiot who calls his wife mother, is afraid to sit in a room with women and lies flagerently. That lie didn't even pass the laugh test.

I'm not a right winger, if anything I'm a left winger. I'm just in favor of free speech, unless you threaten to hurt someone or say racist or sexist etc things.

There is WCG (wide color gamut) and two or three depending on how you look at it hdr schemes. Dolby vision and hdr10 and hdr10+. Don't buy a 4k tv without one or both of these. Looks like hdr10 will won, cause its cheaper. I just bought a 4k tcl roku tv with both schemes. It is awesome. I bought one that was too large though - first world problems.

Please everyone, don't buy 4k monitors. Buy a 4k 40" tv with 4:4:4 and 60p support. There's no reason to spend a ton of money on a special 4k monitor, that's 27" and the pixels are too small to see and you have to use a large font so you can read it.

I volunteer myself for this job of rover software engineer. I'll even take half my current pay :-)

The cynical view might be that the job of nasa is space exploration, manned and unmanned, along with putting jobs in the towns that powerful senators and reps represent. There might be a few people who are doing useless work but that's not true across the large group of researchers.

At the danger of distracting the conversation, yes, free speech should be supported. The exception to me is if that free speech is saying that someone should be killed or hurt, that's now useful or helpful. Saying you want to kill people who, hurt them, that's what we need to stop. Hopefully without giving myself away, I can say that I'm in a group that people openly said shouldn't be able to exist, vote, live, is a threat to the world, basically should die. Is there any purpose to allowing such speech? And I should say people in my group aren't advocating for anything other than to live our lives, and not be killed, destroyed, lose our voting rights, etc.

No, because individual rovers cannot move very far or very fast. It takes them years to go a few kms.

It is much better to have a large number of small rovers distributed all around the planet in regions of varying geography.

Best rover is many powerful rovers. But think about how much overhead there is the heat shield and retro rockets. You can't have 60 small ones, cause the rocket overhead would be huge (ie each rover has a rocket and fuel and heatshield to slow down). There's not enough atmosphere to drop a bunch of parachutes at high altitude to distribute them. But maybe there's some possibility of having 2 of them in one landing or a small number.

No the us wasn't riddled with commie spies under every blanket. There were a few. Guess what, we had spies in Russia too. The one that really hurt maybe was the guy that gave the Russians lots of details on how to make nukes. But there weren't spies who were changing our policies to somehow help the Russians. That's a ridiculous lie with no serious evidence - it would be incredible if it were true, but it's not. No one believed capitalism had reached the end, we just crushed the fascists, we were on top of the world. Also, here's something you could consider Mr Scaredy Pants - fear mongering with scare words like "he's a commie, or he's a liberal", those don't convince anyone. Your comments are simply not connected to reality.

Yes, the person who set us on that path and unnecessarily invaded Iraq was actually the good guy.

I have seen people bugging women (they would call it flirting but it is unwelcome) and making racist comments (then say you are just PC). These things are frequent. Every woman online faces the constant haranguing if they are identifiable. No one bugs me like that because I am presumed to be "normal". The sqlite code of conduct was particularly obtuse because it came from the "christianity is the default and ok with everyone" world.