The people of Botswana don't even rate a mention in the article, they're likely not going to see a single dime of the proceeds which will be in the many tens of millions of US$.
Also, they are one of the largest producers of rough diamonds in the world, so a single stone may be a big deal for the company extracting it, but it means hardly anything to the country.
Africa has some insane level of corruption and poverty, but there are some exceptions (namely, Botswana and Mauritius).
Thank you for that information, that totally changed my view on the situation in Botswana. Reading up on Africa from time to time and I completely missed this.
Because it is value extracted, not value added, and because the receivers of the majority of that value are in a position to extract that value by virtue of having historically exploited Botswana. So the larger part of the value will be removed from the country rather than that it will become part of the local economy it will become part of our economy.
That could be, but for the jobs, transportation, development and taxes they pay, right? The benefit to Botswana is somewhat diminished by having the diamond shipped overseas. But lets be honest: there is no real industrial/commercial value to this diamond at all; it is simply a trophy.
Diamond mining is highly mechanized. There definitely are local workers but fortunately it is no longer as labor intensive as it used to be (that's bad because fewer jobs, but it is also good because those jobs were super dangerous and very low pay anyway).
Nope, it ties into ~75 backend APIs and needs to run in a browser. You might look into building a single-site "app" for its URL though, with something like http://fluidapp.com.
The metaphor from the article is getting free food if you worship my god (like a colonial missionary).
For the well example it's a quick jog to a man handing out sealed bottles of branded water. The library is curtailed and pre selected and the water is not open but closed and walled within Facebook.
Honest question: By extension, should you then not up vote when you agree? The FAQ and guidelines does not mention any special rules about up- or down voting (except for not asking about them and comment on them).
The rule of being specific also matches this title. This is for very very limited artificial video game footage and a database of known 3D scenes from the same. Hardly what I expected.
They are using recorded footage and depth maps from a FIFA game to 're-match' new footage with depth.
> This is for very very limited artificial video game footage and a database of known 3D scenes from the same.
While they are using "artificial video game footage," as the basis for their process, they are applying it to real soccer game footage. Limited, yes, but quite clever in its simplicity. (Obviously, in general, the idea of using simulated data as a training set for supervised machine learning isn't new, but who would have thought that an off-the-shelf videogame would be realistic enough to be used to reconstruct 3d scenes from actual soccer footage.)
That the literal translations of the word 'signal'. At least in Germany that is not used for talking about a phone signal. It's 'empfang' (reception) instead. I am sure other languages differ as well?
