Africa is still colonized, so this idea that they picked "bad leaders" is comical. I would expect the owner of Glencore have more say in the next leader in some of these countries than the actual population.
Time to stop blaming the victims of crimes Europeans have been committing for 2-3+ centuries? now...
I bought it on Amazon on a whim and it ended up being a great purchase. Hard to go back to normal tea and we haven't found this kind of leaf anywhere else.
Can't compare the grade of loose leaf I'm talking about to the dust Lipton sells, having tasted the difference. Even visually...it's like comparing champagne to cooking wine.
My buddy used to work for Lipton. He explained that they use the cheapest grade of tea (dust) available. Also many tea companies mix non-tea additives (fillers) to their tea bags.
After hearing this I decided, if it's not full loose leaf, I don't drink it. We found that companies like Elephant Chateau (http://elephantchateau.com) deliver the 3 highest grades of tea direct from Ceylon mountain estates with the option for plant-based pyramid bags (soilon) or a free stainless steel infuser.
Bonus, the tea actually tastes like tea and is tasty enough to drink plain unlike Lipton dust. It always funny to hear people promote all the health benefits of tea then turn around and dump 100 grams of sugar into a cup to make it palatable.
>That’s wildly inaccurate. Arithmetic was very much a subject at several schools...
I'm talking specifically about "long division" in Europe... and have heard this factoid from multiple mathematicians including Nasim Taleb. So I expect there is a basis for the claim...
The dark ages also saw a huge disparity in education between the East and the West.
Until the 15th century less than 5 people in Europe could do long division. For comparison, Aryabhatta discovered calculus in 5th century India and Madhava made large contributions in the 13th century (Newton/Leibniz were wrongly credited for similar work many years later).
From the description "Huawei launches its Ascend 910 AI Processor & MindSpore Computing Framework in south China's Shenzhen. The company aims at boosting computing power for the development of artificial intelligence technology."
Democracies are not as agile as they used to seem. The ability to move with conviction on short notice is an edge that the Chinese government has over Western nations.
If a country is not ready for Democracy with the necessary amount of development/safeguards, this can be a disaster.
Like installing an internet connected Windows XP on your network with no updates, it introduces tremendous attack vectors that established actors/economies (UK, France, US, Germany) will be all to happy to exploit.
>You may be correct, you may not. I wonder if people said the same thing right up to the end of segregation, and other things. But that doesn't matter: might does not make right. Our predictions don't matter, our individual stances do.
Getting rid of segregation has a strong moral foundation and backing... keeping colonial roots in control of HK, not so much.
China, I expect has a bigger picture view. Our small brain framing "Move Manufacturing Good", doesn't play out when you realize China is an Asian power, not just an isolated country.
China's economy benefits from most business that enters the Asian continent, either directly or indirectly, and this "economic proximity" benefit only increases as they develop infrastructure (domestically and internationally) that streamlines trade.
The underdevelopment of Africa is/was a deliberate decision of the west that China is undoing.
Smart investors realize China/India's future economic status depends on being able to offset loss of western demand/trade with direct trade with African markets.
This is generally better for the whole planet but not if you have a "zero-sum game" mentality (seems more common in the West than East).
Time to stop blaming the victims of crimes Europeans have been committing for 2-3+ centuries? now...