Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢

Software Engineer. Interested in Economic History, Finance and Programming.

[Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢 @ShazCoder]

Economic growth and development becomes much more cooler and awe inspiring when you think of it less as "line goes up" and more as "increasing productive power of the species".

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

I started blogging 5 years ago..

And I must confess… I love it!

Rather than stay cocooned in an academic conference, I can share my research with a global audience

Best are the readers from diverse regions who message & share insights!

Thank you!! 💓

[Auctor @n30n5223434]

The resolution will be titled “Black women deserve rights” and it will include some article like how Ukraine should be a part of Russia. Then countries will veto this but the map will be posted online.

[Auctor @n30n5223434]

Russia is just spamming bait drafts at the UN it seems. Sort of like how I spam troll votes on Reddit.

[Phryne Astynome @PAstynome]

Violent protests and riots in early 20th century Japan are what led Japan down to a more aggressive foreign policy that led to WWII. Read up on all the riots Japan had after the Russo-Japanese War and WWI. Socialist protests/riots were big as well during the Interwar as well.

[AWACS Sky Keeper @HQuarterma43504]

Amazing work.

Can we have an "era" system?

Assign texts to an era, "Vedic", "Ancient", "Classical", "Late Classical", "Medieval", "Late Medieval", "Early Modern".

If actual date of composition is available, have that too otherwise null it.

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

To clarify, I still think Chinese FDI can offer tech benefits to the US through two channels:

1. Older tech: China's export controls put limits on transferring cutting-edge tech. But ironically I see this as enabling greater transfer of older generation tech. Beijing is encouraging Chinese companies to invest overseas while setting some boundaries on what can be shared rather than leaving this up to private firms.

2. Informal know-how: Arguably much if not most of China's gains from foreign tech were not in formal IP transfer, which foreign firms guarded closely, but from informal know-how. When you build a new plant and train a bunch of local staff and work with local suppliers, this can have huge positive spillovers far beyond engineering blueprints and design patents. For example, a lot of China's edge in LFP batteries is knowing how to reliably and efficiently scale production.

China will not make tech transfer easy. But neither did the US or other countries when they invested in China. Ultimately it boils down to how hard the host country bargains and what forms of leverage they can bring to bear. And the US has tremendous leverage, particularly at a time when Chinese firms are desperate for overseas markets.

Re-upping my piece on how China did this with FDI: https://t.co/E0meXnbDOy

[Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢 @ShazCoder]

any stretch with many well-known weaknesses; nonetheless its model might prove to be more resilient than thought. (16/16)

[Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢 @ShazCoder]

The excellent essay by @davideoks and @humford on the long, slow death of global development is particularly interesting to read now after all that has happened in the past 4 years.

I believe that the prospects for global development will become even more challenging in (1/n)

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Good hires by OpenAI. @davideoks and @humford were both on Odd Lots in 2023, talking about how so many countries around the world have run into a development well https://t.co/yuE7hwvgnl

[Shashank Nayak 🏗🚆🏢 @ShazCoder]

revenue as the country's manufacturing sector!) by developing country standards.

The challenge would be in ensuring the service base spans functions and has the surface area to adapt to the new demands flowing from the stack.

The country is not China or East Asia by (15/n)