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According to Ha-Joon Chang, a developmental economist, it is because these countries have had periods of time in their history in which they were highly protectionist of their own industry and aimed at being export-oriented. In his book Kicking Away the Ladder, he mentions some of these policies which these countries had implemented:

• Introduction of state-owned model factories (pilot plants) in industries where the private sector was lacking
• Huge state role in building infrastructure such as rail
• Copying of successful foreign institutions and systems such as the army, civil law, criminal law, banking etc
• Tariffs to protect infant industries, subsidizing the import of raw materials
• In the case of Japan, their military build-up led to technological spillover
• Export subsidies to promote an export-oriented economy
• Tariff rebates for imported raw materials and machinery for export industries
• Indicative planning to reduce "wasteful competition"

I'd strongly recommend reading the book (you can find a pdf online, yarr) if you're interested about this. Many of these policies were not invented by the East Asian states, but by Britain, France, Prussia, the USA etc. They were just copied.

El tema no es solo qué se exporta, ni principalmente eso, sino la industrialización de cada país.

Todos los países ricos en la actualidad -sin excepción- están altamente industrializados, y por ello todos los gobiernos del mundo, se supone, persiguen la industrialización. La polémica en México más bien es si es mejor el modelo de intervención del estado o el de "la mejor política industrial es no tener política industrial", el dejar al mercado la industrialización del país.

Te recomiendo un excelente libro, que explora la forma histórica cómo los países ricos se industrializaron: https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Development-Perspective/dp/1843310279

El resumen es que, salvo unas cuantas excepciones, la vía fue en dos etapas: primero, el impuso a la industria propia mediante el proteccionismo del mercado local y la intervención del estado, y luego, el impuso del librecomercio sin trabas, una vez alcanzado un nivel de desarrollo industrial que permitía a las empresas nacionales competir internacionalmente.

En otras palabras, los países industrializados llegaron a esa condición haciendo lo contrario a lo que ellos mismo dicen que debemos hacer los otros países para llegar ahí.

> it's like they think i'm only on their site to earn rubies

They're nudging you for continuous interaction. The idea is to get you to make it a routine.

Relevant book recommendation:

https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

For the uninitiated - 'Hooked - how to make habit forming products' is on pretty much every start-up's bookshelf in Silicone Valley.

https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

They're so full of shit even before this.

https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Development-Perspective/dp/1843310279/

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-Capitalism/dp/1596915986/

tldr=The west tells weak nations to adopt free trade yet it did the opposite when it was growing.

Hey, I just graduated from IIIT BBSR, now I'm at IIT BBSR doing research. If you need detailed guidance please PM me direct or I usually attend Quora Meetups ( Reddit BBSR subreddit is dead ) or Dev Meets in BBSR. We could meet in person for a nice chat.

Here's a short outline on what I think you should do:

Individually:

• ACM ICPC is really important. Focus on this. So is Google Code Jam.
• Focus only on C/C++/Java and Python. 4 Years won't still be enough. For making your website/portfolio you could learn HTML/CSS and JS. For some frustration and joy, add a functional language, my top pick goes to Haskell.
• Find a passion. Competitive isn't going to take forward very far as it's basically solving solved questions. It's practice. Passion in a field of CS or maybe something applied.
• Open source contributions and designing habit forming products. Check this book by Nir Eyal which goes by the same name.
• Read Code Complete 2, Pragmatic Programmer, make stackoverflow your Facebook. Don't answer if you can't, but read. Read. And code.
• Apply for Internships! Startups are nicer as the team is small so you'll learn a lot of new things.

Group/Social stuff:

• ACM ICPC is a group event. Finding 2 friends in your college won't be difficult, I guess, who share the same passion.
• Teachers aren't just bad in your college, they are present at every college. Ignore them and let's rather be graceful than sulk with remorse.
• You have the whole city to explore. Go grab an Ola/Uber and visit institutes or email Profs you want to work with. BBSR has really nice people provided you search right.

Above all, don't do something because it's the trend. Do if it's fun. Sorry for the brevity and not much of an expert advice on the job/software product market as my career is mostly research and a bit of entrepreneurship.

For the very best of times,

Ankit

> Unfortunately, most countries practice bad economic policy, partly because the IMF / World Bank / rich country economic advisors got things really wrong. They recommended free markets and open borders, which are good for rich countries, but bad for developing ones. Developing countries need to start with planned economies, then phase in free market policies gradually and in the right order. Since rich country economists kept leading everyone astray, the only countries that developed properly were weird nationalist dictatorships and communist states that ignored the Western establishment out of spite. But now the economic establishment is starting to admit its mistakes, giving other countries a chance to catch up.

Scott, bless his soul, stays true to Quokka-speak, but I can't not suspect a Straussian reading here.

Also reminds me of Biden's attempts to create an «alternative to BRI with its debt-traps».

Check out the book "Hooked"

https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

It's largely an instruction manual for how to build super addictive apps, and driving these highly emotional dopamine responses is a big part of it.

Options as a strategic investment is also very good and covers so many different strategies. It’s 900 pages long, so I’d use it more as a reference for diving deeper into specific strategies rather than a sit down and read it all the way through kind of book. Options as a Strategic Investment: Fifth Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735204659/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_F2Z2R19YXVKYXCZCPARF

There is literally a very popular industry pop book called Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. This sits on the shelf of every software product team everywhere.

It does have a chapter discussing the ethics of persuasion though. It's not a terrible, evil book but that that title should tell you everything you need to know about the approach to designing user experiences and the cutthroat jostling for a larger user base.

Gosto bastante deste "Options as a strategic investment" (ainda que seja muito extenso). É bastante técnico mas acredito que ajuda bastante, especialmente se o foco for o investimento em derivativos.

Edit: Aconselho a compra em inglês.

Deixo aqui o link: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/0735204659/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

As part of his MBA program, my friend recently took the “Clifton Strength Assessment” and on a whim I did I too and found it helped me put into words some of the things I knew I was good at but couldn’t articulate.

You esssentially take an online test with the code in the book, and it will recomend your top 5 strengths. I’ve become a believer that the key to success in a career is not to focus on shoring weaknesses, but rather doubling down on what your good at. The material is a bit gimmicky, but for $20 its not much of a loss And may help.

hey codex, congrats for starting a very big journey! If i were you, I'd read a few options books before you get started, and do some paper trading.

https://www.amazon.ca/Options-as-Strategic-Investment-Fifth/dp/0735204659 is one of my favourite, and shouldn't be too hard. Message me if you have more questions!

It’s a book. I ordered mine from Amazon. It’s also come down in price considerably.

Options as a Strategic Investment: Fifth Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735204659/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_4BDQZ2TD8NA5W4ZNT92H

I can't really say because the messaging has a lot going on in them. This one has good commonality to Cbus but missed the mark on the images. The next one you posted has "GENTRIFICATION!" and the text size is dominate, are you trying to say it loudly or in a negative tone?

Book recommendation - https://www.amazon.com/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/1400064287

I'm not sure what kind of technical background you have, OP, but it may be worth looking into the technical details of options. Books like Options as a Strategic Investment or Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance do a great job of describing the math behind options and how they're used on an institutional level. Obviously you don't need to know these things to trade options, but I felt they were a real eye-opener in terms of understanding the kind of effort or technical prowess required to be a competitive trader.

Again, it might not be fair to compare yourself to institutional traders and their methods, but it's difficult to assess how realistic it is to get good enough to make this your main source of income, and these books can give you a sense of how well you understand the landscape of the field.

Hooked and Contagious also both touch on this as well.

Awesome! Oh and I am just remembering, you can get the hard copy of strengthsfinder 2.0 for like $14 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X It's a good deal if you're a fan of hard copies! You also get the assessment code and all the other good stuff

If anyone in the app development world is perusing here I highly recommend the book "Hooked". Required reading IMO. https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

The others have given you answers to your specific question. All I will say is: DONT TRADE OPTIONS UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THEM!!!!

There is a (very long) book which I recommend you at least flick through before opening any more options trades: here

It costs $60 but that is just a fraction of what it will cost you to NOT read it.

Oh, Krugman. It's a trope among economists that the plebs do not understand comparative advantage. They seem to loathe admitting that the idea is, in fact, not that hard, yet the assumptions its relevance hinges on are much harder to justify, so even reasonable people can persist in their skepticism. Krugman laments having to stoop to baby-talk, but it's precisely beyond the baby-talk level, the "wine and cloth" stuff, where the unadulterated virtue of free trade starts to unravel. Real nations have limited and unequal state capacity, human capital, resource pool, and they also have geopolitical ambitions, alliances, values beyond profit; which is precisely why they, not just some laymen, sometimes discard Ricardo and bail out of profitable international deals. How does America calculate Huawei-CCP ties and Taiwan sovereignty into its trade policy? How does China factor in the increase in dependence on a capricious partner who can weather separation better, thanks largely to its unprecedented role in the global financial system?

On net, Ricardian logic is sound and the case for international trade is still stronger than the case for autarky. But you do not need to look for "intellectuals" to have some legitimate holes in the narrative pointed out to you. Literally HuffPost would suffice. Or "Kicking away the ladder".

Most everyone is commenting, because in this case, most everyone does know better. Musk's forte is pushing forward new technology. Twitter isn't new tech -- it's a social experience shared by hundreds of millions.

I don't know what will happen to Twitter. I expect it will be relevant until a well-run competitor shows up, and still around even after unless it is shut down after being sold (Vine). We already saw this happen with MySpace which was pretty visually lawless and Facebook came in to bring structure.

What I do know is that Elon is breaking every historical guideline for leading a company well with Twitter.

1. No vision of the future
2. Unilateral changes
3. Not leaning on institutional knowledge built up through company experience
4. Risking the core revenue stream without a clear plan to replace it

If you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996

To me, Musk's leadership style doesn't mirror the Great Companies' leadership. I think he's outside his sphere of knowledge, and he's continuing to apply the same leadership style that has worked for him with startups (the only types of companies he's managed so far), the combination of which I believe will lead to Musk's disastrous failure with Twitter. (Probably <5 billion valuation in <3 years)

Any company is a combination of these three things

1. Leadership
2. Employees
3. Customers (in Twitter's case, both users and advertisers)

Musk has completely undermined #2 and is likely undermining #1 (see those in leadership that quit after the "hardcore work" memo. It appears that is causing #3 to start making changes. At this point, #3 (and his personal wealth) is his only lifeline.

>Over time the government may have been able to take control of the countryside and win over the rural people.

How? There's no real evidence this is how it works. If anything we started losing support from the rural regions over time.

>I’m sure all the soldiers you talked too are experts in nation building

I wonder why they didn't put an "expert in nation building" I'm charge of Afghanistan. Seems like they would know what to do.

The algo feeds what people want see. Creating bubbles where someone rarely sees anything to challenge their beliefs, be it political or otherwise. Because seeing conflicting ideas and arguments gives people discomfort. The algorithm doesn't want to create discomfort, it wants to create clicks and engagement.

Social media uses rules from gambling like never give someone the idea of a loss. Facebook won't notify you when someone unfriends you. Twitter won't notify you when someone unfollows you. There's a whole (perverted) psychological science behind it. I can highly recommend te book "Hooked" if you want to learn about it.

It is all very bad in many ways. I find it saddening you can't really agree to disagree with people anymore. At least online its a big issue. In real life not so much, people are much more reasonable. But you didn't do any of that, which is nice! I think we don't agree on many things but we can stil have a conversation without name calling. Rare but good, thank you!

https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788

Buy Options as a Strategic Investment. https://www.amazon.com/Options-as-Strategic-Investment-Fifth-dp-0735204659/dp/0735204659/

It is in its fifth edition. Thus, it is a good book because junk books never even make it to the second edition.

Spend a few bucks and buy Options as a Strategic Investment. https://www.amazon.com/Options-as-Strategic-Investment-Fifth-dp-0735204659/dp/0735204659/

Read the book. Take notes. Highlight the book.

(Note that the book is the fifth edition. Thus, it is a good book otherwise it would not have been updated so many times.)

Made to Stick? https://www.amazon.ca/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others/dp/1400064287/ref=asc_df_1400064287/?tag=googlemobshop-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=292914682536&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=4255332782159885480&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;...

/u/Silly_You9597, please do yourself a big favor. Buy yourself a copy of Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence McMillan. Read it. He does a very good job of explaining all the various option strategies. https://www.amazon.com/Options-as-Strategic-Investment-Fifth-dp-0735204659/dp/0735204659/

The book is in its 5th edition. This means that the author and the material is good quality (if the stuff is bad, there would not be a second, third, fourth, or even fifth edition). I have a copy of the second edition.

It's basically just any plan that forces you to look at the fundamentals of opening the business and understand where the risks are. The fundamentals being:

• Purpose of the business
• USP(s)
• Market size
• Competition
• Overheads
• Forecasted profit/loss
• Cashflow forecast
• Organisational structure
• Route to market

I would also recommend having a look at the Business Model Generator book, which can help you explore different business models and see what might work best.

It's basically just any plan that forces you to look at the fundamentals of opening the business and understand where the risks are. The fundamentals being: * Purpose of the business * USP(s) * Market size * Competition * Overheads * Forecasted profit/loss * Cashflow forecast * Organisational structure * Route to market

I would also recommend having a look at the (Business Model Generator book)[https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417], which can help you explore different business models and see what might work best.