Industrial policy to ensure German dominance in the future car manufacturing. Protects them during the transition.

US trade officials take note.

Turns out that Republicans had a better data system and algorithms than did Democrats this cycle of the US presidential election.

Trump, who was capable of many campaign rallies per week, was sent to wherever there were pools of persuadable voters in the swing states.

Clinton's campaign failed to even identify the true swing states, using older algorithms.

Let's try not to take every opportunity to turn a thread into a re-hash discussion on the election.

I'd say the opposite cost her the election. She failed to realize where the split was. If she had she would have campaigned in all the right places. It's not like both sides didn't know exactly how much each piece on the board was worth.

But not, by a long shot, the Popular Vote.

Spending much more than Trump, campaigning in the wrong places.

Winning the popular vote big and losing the election is a manifest sign of a failed campaign.

Let's not take the bait to turn every thread into an election discussion.

Visa restrictions would raise the wages of Americans competing for those jobs. And allow more entry level Americans to enter high paying technical fields.

Visa restrictions thus would be a step towards fixing troubling USA income inequality.

Trump is right to put Americans first.

But where are the libraries? Compare the size of Smalltalk's ecosystem to Java's.

Not to mention the various competing flavors of Smalltalk, whose code bases may be incompatible with one another.

The size of the Smalltalk user base isn't large enough to support a healthy ecosystem. Hence, the reason for my evangelism to grow the community!

Another issue is fragmentation: there are too many dialects. That's why I generally promote Pharo, which is the largest open source Smalltalk. If I can get developers to rally around Pharo, then we will have the best chance of developing a strong ecosystem.

Given that humans are otherwise well adapted as pursuit hunters, able to select a single prey animal and run it to heat exhaustion - it makes sense that bipedalism is another adaption for endurance running.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis

"But there is nothing wrong with protecting people, and there is everything wrong with globalization. Globalization isn't about respecting other people's culture, or treating everyone fairly regardless of their race. Globalization is about each country specializing in just one part of a normal, healthy, diverse economy, and then treating anyone whose talents aren't suited to that part of the economy, as if they were defective and in need a handout rather than a job. I think it is time for people who don't like what globalization has done, to start using the word "protectionist" to describe themselves. I am a protectionist; I think there is nothing wrong with protecting people."

I would like to see agent-based models of protective tariffs.

Free Trade has been US policy post WWII. But the US had its best growth rates in the 1800s and early 1900s with high protective tariffs.

Lets see what agent-based models predict.