Small is beautiful, but sometimes big and complex are necessary. There are some computer programs that are essential to keep society running that are necessarily big and complex. Or for a natural example, virtually everything in biology is big (in terms of the number of things interacting) and complex. Yet it works better than anything we have been able to build.
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > On 9/15/2012 8:37 PM, Mike Oliker wrote: > > I'm afraid Obamacare lost me the second I heard about its size. > > http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43472 > What Is the Net Budgetary Impact of the Coverage Provisions Taking Into > Account the Supreme Court’s Decision? CBO and JCT now estimate that the > insurance coverage provisions of the ACA will have a net cost of $1,168 > billion over the 2012–2022 period—compared with $1,252 billion projected in > March 2012 for that 11-year period—for a net reduction of $84 billion. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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