This recent presentation from Kepler Airospace claims that Einstein was on the right track and a goes even further, stating that gravity can be manipulated through EM. I've graduated in Physics but not quite sure what to make of it.
If all major governments keep it secret, the conclusion would be that the phenomenon wants it that way. The US wouldn't be in charge. But apparently something changed.
There may not be much of a difference left then between machines and biologicals. Generations would alternate like a jellyfish does between polyp and medusa. No need for generation ships.
In the country I work it goes like this: the employers are members of an IT association, once a year each employer sends over the anonymous salaries for each job title. The associations aggregates them and sends back the distribution, which HR then uses as a reference. Similar result, but no direct collaboration between employers needed. You can even buy the report for each position as an employee for a fair price.
The system survived the partitions, there was no widespread blackout.
Further, the system is not organized by the EU, but the ENTSO-E and contains e.g. countries from North Afrika.
Energy is cheap, power is expensive - you can already get energy for free sometimes on the intraday market, but you still pay if you need delivery at a certain time and the grid fees for peak power consumption stay expensive. I am looking forward to Tesla's million-mile battery!
The thing about quantum theory is that it's not just about propabilities. The double-slit experiment, for example, cannot be explained by adding propabilities alone. Instead the wave function gets added, with the phase considered. This is why an unobserved quantum state is more than a classical state hidden in a box and why we get results that seem paradox.
One point of view is that the removal of the atomic increment is justified because the programmer cannot rely on the execution of the go routine that contains the increment. If you add an explicit call to the scheduler the problem is fixed. However, the justification is a bit of a stretch and it looks like it will be changed back to old behavior by the go developers.
I wonder if flat buttons are a good idea. On top of a vibrating rocket I'd prefer buttons where I can feel their outline with my finger tips. The labels seem light gray, a less elegant but better visible writing might be better suited here, too.
A nuclear power plant cannot run at say 10% to just power its own systems after it was separated from the grid. That's why diesel generators and batteries are so important to keep the reactor from melting.
It's hard to find a source on this, I apologize. The reason is that it only has large turbines to generate power, and these cannot be operated for arbitrary power output.