gleapsite2 | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
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gleapsite2 | 2 years ago | on: Consider the Pawpaw
My understanding (and you probably already know) is that PawPaws are pollinated by flies (and not bees).
At a medieval/fantasy campground I've planted thousands of trees at, we located the pawpaw trees near the bathrooms and trash cans. Both of which attract flies.
Perhaps when (or shortly before) the pawpaws are in bloom, you dump some charnel or other biowaste near the trees to help attract flies?
gleapsite2 | 2 years ago | on: Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)
Base 60 was the number system for the Sumarians/Babylonians.
> Sexagesimal, also known as base 60 or sexagenary, is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
gleapsite2 | 5 years ago | on: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
>The fact that the US has indivisibility in it's constitution is a weird historical wrinkle, and one I find hard to reconcile given that they chose to separate from Britain. How they didn't recognise a general right for self determination is beyond me. But then I am a Brit.
This is incorrect. The US Constitution doesn't mention indivisibility [1]. The Tenth amendment provides some Rights to self determination:
> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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So while the constitution doesn't address succession by a state, the historical context of our Civil War, and court cases in its aftermath ended most of the debate on if and how states could succeed from the Union.
From Texas v. White [2]:
>When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
That establishes that succession must have the consent of the States, which is a similar bar to amending the Constitution. But its interesting that the case cited pre-constitutional law, i.e. the Articles of Confederation.
[1] https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States...
gleapsite2 | 5 years ago | on: Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
> Since last year I have been delaying the development of the project due to personal reasons. I plan to resume it soon.
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What about audience engagement for streamers? my first thought when I saw this was oldschool public access "phone in" shows.
of course, a different usecase demands a different featureset (like, delay, moderation, OBS integration...