For all the interest in the story, one errant 'there' has thrown my attention span.

Or saving Google how much computing power by not doing something that provides no tangible benefit?

Don't be silly, that's not new New York. This is. It also seems very prescient.

Why do I have the feeling that the outcome of this project is going to suck?

Yes

I think you used the word 'less' a few too many times...

Why use the National Guard and State police? Put them in a pile in downtown Baltimore. With how much Orange Man has bashed on them, I'm guessing the populace would be happy to protect it.

Just have the Inspector General responsible for overseeing the dispersal of the money show that it's being reasonably allocated.

My understanding is that a non-trivial number of U.S. businesses are way over-leveraged. As in their profit doesn't even cover loan interest... I know people generally believe government shouldn't pick winners and losers, but why wouldn't we prioritize those responsible, long-term viable companies?

I don't understand how carrying and burning all of those microwaves would be better than rocket fuel, especially with the production cost of making the microwaves.

I don't want the default to be that, but if you write a function that way it better be clearly documented and adhere to the following statement.

f is the function containing /0 returns 0 iff f(x) does not contain 0.

This must also be communicated clearly and concisely to anyone using the function.

Create a function to generate a random key.

Right, since few people know M then it must be impossible to provide interconnectivity. We all know that programming languages can't communicate with each other.

I highly doubt they give a damn what you're doing, they're just upset that they can no longer sell the knowledge of what you're doing for auxiliary profit.

Group in power tries to maintain power...story at 11.