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The stripe number of "2-3% of the financial system will always be fraudulent transactions" is really interesting.

How much energy do organisms spent on their immune systems?

How many animals in a given trophic level are predators?

How many people employed in computers are black-hat attackers?

What percentage of population is cops?

@niplav 1600 kJ/380 kcal, all of them?, dunno, about 0.2% of the US pop is cops (700k/330m).

@Paradox Thanks for numbers! Also "all of them" yeah, fair.

@Paradox BTW wjere did you get the immune system answer from? I searched and got nothing

@niplav "how much energy is spend on our immune system"
I got lucky, actually, cuz the first result is part of a research paper that's paywalled, but you can see it in the robots.txt

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