.@asianometry says America may need to unlearn a 100-year-old lesson from the railroad era to win the industrial race with China: "I think absolutely. I think America should be adopting this. There are very valid reasons why US counties and states don't adopt the Hefei model, where the state basically throws VC money and acts as an accelerator for startups." "The most literal one is railroads. There was a huge dumpster fire where states and cities were funding railroads that make no sense,…