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syntheticnature on Jan 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year run...

"The Fail-Safe Theorem: When a Fail-Safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail safe."

--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#System_failure

bcbrown on Jan 30, 2017 [–]

I love that book. Have you read https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-General-Systems-Thinking...? It's similar, but a bit more rigorous.

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