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If barriers harm more than abuse then abuse should be accepted.
by vbezhenar 2y ago
If barriers harm more than abuse then abuse should be accepted.
- loupol 2y agoReminds me of that bits about money blogpost title : "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero"
- Cyphase 2y agohttps://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/ https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32701913
- OJFord 2y agoMatt 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 2y agoYes and the optimal amount of test coverage is never 100%
- jappgar 2y agoAnd the optimal uptime of b2b saas is not 100% or even 99.999% and yet...
- jappgar 2y agoThis 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.
- baumy 2y agoIn a vacuum that's certainly the most pragmatic way to look at it. The problem is that tolerance of abuse tends to create more abuse, to the point that usually it's not a sustainable policy.
- SoftTalker 2y agoRandom audits can put enough fear into people to keep them honest for much lower cost.
- eschneider 2y agoIt's not tolerance of abuse. Abuse when detected will be punished. The important thing is, stopping ALL abuse preemptively causes more pain than it's worth.
- al_borland 2y agoMeasuring the losses due to abuse is much easier than measuring the cost of bureaucracy.
- memen 2y agoIt's precisely the other way around. Cost of bureaucracy is easy to measure, abuse is not measurable (only caught abuse). Nevertheless, the point is that it is difficult to compare a known cost to an unknown cost, so that still stands. People are risk averse, so a known cost is preferable, even if expectedly higher than dealing with abuse. This is in part why insurance is so profitable.
- quantgenius 2y agoNope. Abuse should never be accepted. The right solution for actual abuse of a policy like this as opposed to an error is to immediately fire the person conducting the abuse. The inability or unwillingness to make decisions like this fast is the root cause of a lot of nonsense that goes on at businesses. If it's an error, you correct and accept errors as the cost of doing business.