Does anyone have any information on where the author gets his claim that Cohen has a "road to Damascus moment" upon arriving at Harvard? I can't find anything on that, or even anyone else claiming Cohen was a "liberal".
This article is very light on supporting quotes or references, so im very suspect of his claims that analytical Marxist converted to beliefs that are opposed to Marxist analysis. Especially given many of Cohen's later works are focused on scientific socialism.
And these leaders are all fairly and democratically elected?
Without the influence of the money of former colonial states (or their puppets in the form of expropriative enterprises)?
Consider the trillions of dollars made by other countries from Africa's people and resources. Why _wouldnt_ they spend a fraction of that killing any chance that a cultural movement picks up.
This isn't fantasy, Nestle, Chiquita, etc have a long history of funding anti-revolutionary agencies for exactly this reason.
One man rejecting one bribe will do nothing, a single cup cannot drain an ocean.
>Hidden behind this facade of beauty is a horrible culture that celebrates corruption, tribalism and lack of cooperation, backbiting, and shortsightedness
These are all acute problems in Western nations. The fundamental impediment which Africa faces are it's rich natural resources and the nations which exploit them.
Any "anti-corruption" cultural efforts will be snuffed out long before it becomes a threat to this lucrative expropriation
There is no cultural solution to the boot of political and economic struggle.
The requirements for an injunction are much lower than an actual ruling.
The party must just show that they have a possibility of winning the case and that granting temporary relief will not cause additional harm to the plaintiff.
To use that as proof that the defendant will win is ridiculous.
Next time you're on a flight, listen for the number of people who remove their seatbelts before the seatbelt light goes off, after a crew member specifically says not to do this
I haven't seen any of them fined 25k. Proportionality matters, and getting off the plane as fast as (in your mind) possible isn't going to be realistically enforced.
This would be immediately obvious in a cursory analysis of performance. On-device transcription is not only computationally infeasible, it would also require model capabilities far beyond what is currently SOTA.
Google had (and has afaik) significant challenges implementing multiple wake-word detection for precisely this reason.
Transcribing a couple of words accurately on-device without a major performance penalty (so that it can be running in the background always) is just _barely_ coming out now.