Most systems use fresh water for cooling. Salt water can corrode pipes and deposit sediment, but maybe there's a way to use ocean water efficiently.

They also need to be powered and connected to a network, but that seems like an easier problem.

the internal loop can be fresh water which heat exchanges with the ocean water

Excel/google sheets can be no-code, low code, or full-on VBA macros. I think they are pretty helpful.

Beans, boots, and bullets. You can't eat gold.

Little Dieter is that you? ;) (Referring to the excellent Herzog film)

This seems worse than the Dubai quadcopter taxis in general, but it would be cool in niche situations. I wonder if it can be adapted to land on water with inflatable landing gear.

We have these smaller wheeled vehicles on a college campus, I'll note that they are not autonomous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yDtLhRygs

apex predator of grug is complexity

I would have considered this article as overly grandiose a year ago. Part of me wonders if there is some possibility that this is becoming a more prevalent thinking. Even if bitcoin crashes to $0.01 USD, it still has some usefulness as a way to transfer value (Western Union's market cap: $2.77 billion). If the mighty dollar eventually falls out of favor, is the volatility enough to drive people away? Can it become a collective delusion to rival gold? For the near and medium term, I think giz user 'curry for breakfast' had a relevant comment:

"Money? No, not money, just dollars, and specifically dollars because that's all that are at stake here.

The bitcoin bubble could burst tomorrow and the rest of the world, and their currencies, which are backed by their nation's economies, will trundle on as happily as they've always done.

The only real losers would be the unlucky crypto gamblers. Wrong bet, wrong time. "

"We'll burn that bridge when we come to it"

- one of my favorites

If this were a goal, the USA would not want to push other countries into China's sphere of influence. The simpler explanation is that non-tariff taxes require congress and are not fully under control of the executive branch. This allows the executive branch to seize the power of the purse.

Tariff taxes also require congress. It’s a constitutionally enumerated power of Congress specifically to levy import duties.

Well, I mean, since we threw out the opposition in Congress?

I'm thinking we'd better not rely on Congress to put a stop to anything. A simple veto removes that problem. No way what's left of the opposition in Congress comes up with the votes to override a veto.

Also, don't shrink away from toil or lack of pleasure- to an extent.

There is a different way to think about it which is that the work could in principle be better structured to automatically be associated with more pleasure.