Programming Throwdown, Episode 55, Editor Wars.

Take it away, Patrick.

Well, first I want to open up with a discussion about vacation.

So it's the summer.

People with children in school or in school themselves often think about vacation this time of year.

I tend to actually be the opposite since I do have kids, but they're not school age.

I try to take my vacations

during the school year and so that way it's cheaper and less crowded and I'm basically a

commensely old man and then I came across an article about mandatory vacation and should it be

required at tech companies and there's an article we can link. But it got me thinking.

And also I wanted to share,

there was an interesting example in here where at bank companies,

companies insured by the FDIC specifically the government has rules.

And they say that you have to take at least two weeks of vacation per year for people in certain roles.

And the reason being that if you're cooking the books at a financial institution and two weeks of vacation per year for people in certain roles.

And the reason being that if you're cooking the books at a financial institution and you take a vacation for two weeks, that there's a much higher chance that someone will catch that

the books are being cooked while you're gone.

Because you have to kind of make edits on a daily basis to make everything match up in

the ledgers.

And if you are gone for two weeks and someone else has to do that, you'd have to collude with them. Oh, I see. And so, you know, most of the time, collusion is, the risk is too high because you have, you know, we can get into game theory, I guess. But there's a reason. If you have 100 people, if any one of them defects the rule and then also if you have

100 people and someone breaks the rule you don't know which one and so yeah as soon as it gets more

than one person it's very hard to which is also a convincing explanation i've heard about why conspiracy theories

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