@kingslayer69O69 @feliks Humans are so hard to network, it is regarded as a rarity to get two of them to interchange gigabits, events with three of them simultaneously interchanging happens less than once in most human's lifetime, and more than three makes newspapers. Plus, they have weird operational requirements in that they stop working at both high and low temperatures, stop working if the Halon system goes off, seem incompatible with liquid cooling systems, leak strange fluids, etc. I'm not saying that they are more trouble than you should bother with, but I'm also not not saying that.

@kingslayer69O69 @feliks Baseline humans run at only about 100W, with much of that used to keep you alive. Mining a bitcoin runs about 150–800 MWh (0.54–2.88 TJ). So your virus would need in excess of 9 centuries to mine a bitcoin, which is less than $0.01 per hour of being sick.

@inthehands Kind of puts the engineer triad of cheap, fast, good in perspective.

@davidgiard

> Under all these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action? But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!"

- #AbrahamLincoln 1860/02/27 https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm #CooperUnion #StandAndDeliver