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dredmorbius on Aug 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Age of Invisible Disasters (2017)

You've probably heard the line "complexity is the enemy", or perhaps even its full form: "complexity is the enemy of reliability".

You may not know its provenance: The Economist, Volume 186, January, 1958, or 60 years ago:

https://books.google.com/books?id=aDsiAQAAMAAJ&q="complexity...

I've been trying unsuccessfully to secure a copy of this article for some years. PDF preferred, dredmorbius<at>protonmail<dot>com if anyone should have access.

wilsonnb3 on Aug 27, 2018 [–]

If you're willing to pay $100 to secure a copy, you can probably read it in the Economist Historical Archive.

https://shop.economist.com/products/the-economist-historical...

dredmorbius on Aug 27, 2018 | [–]

Not.

My research trove exceeds 10k items. I don't have a $100/item, or even source, budget.

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