Many other successful democracies (e.g. Germany) seem to able to run fair judicial systems without the routine use of juries. Put our refusal to consider changing this under the "tradition"… (View Post)

The absolutely literal meaning of Schwerpunkt is "heavy point". The slightly less literal meaning is "centre of gravity", and the commonly used meaning is "focus" or &qu… (View Post)

I don't think it's a terribly contentious idea that bottlenecks are the reason why processes are inefficient. The more interesting issue is why such bottlenecks become apparently unresolvable, and th… (View Post)

It's not likely to be a very long-lasting legacy given that Miami is one of the cities most at risk from climate change, particularly from rising sea levels. (View Post)

Between them, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud completely dominate the market for cloud services. I'd think you'd be hard pressed to find any major web service or app that didn't depend on one o… (View Post)