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by loupol 710 days ago
Reminds me of that bits about money blogpost title :

"The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero"

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Matt Levine has a recurring bit on this in Money Stuff too, adjusting the crime/fraud/risk dial back and forth as companies decide to do more or less compliance.
Yes and the optimal amount of test coverage is never 100%
And the optimal uptime of b2b saas is not 100% or even 99.999% and yet...
This is true about a lot of things.

The optimal number of (minor) crashes when training for a mountain bike race is non-zero. If you never crash, you cannot be sure you were going fast enough around that turn.