[loupol]

Reminds me of that bits about money blogpost title :

"The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero"

[Cyphase]

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701913

[OJFord]

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.

[gofreddygo]

Yes and the optimal amount of test coverage is never 100%

[jappgar]

And the optimal uptime of b2b saas is not 100% or even 99.999% and yet...

[jappgar]

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.