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Re:Complex System Failure: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of... by amelius on Sunday September 08, 2019 @09:50AM (#20910548)
> there have been critical computer system bugs and defects that have resulted in the loss of human life such as the 346 people who died on-board the Boeing 737 Max 8 flights in Indonesia and Ethiopia during 2018–2019

Strange example, as that was more a consequence of a failure in management.

Re:Complex System Failure: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of... by jchw on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:56AM (#20911280)
Something I’ve learned from working in reliability: there is not one cause. There is also not n causes. There is more like trees of different kinds of causes where each node has some weight contributing to the incident. So yes, it is a failure in management for sure, but it isn’t also not other things.
Re:Complex System Failure: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of... by jeffreygoesto on Sunday September 08, 2019 @09:13AM (#20910375)
I could not really see a conclusion. Is there any? For the list of references, I'd add http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sys...
Re:Complex System Failure: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of... by kunkelast on Monday September 09, 2019 @03:02AM (#20915846)
These larger paragraphs are so difficult to read... The text seem to be written for Google bot, not for real readers :(