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It would be a slight undercount if karma didn't follow a power-law. How many users are there again? How many were loaded when you ran that?

13527 of 43817 accounts are currently loaded.

What do you mean loaded? You mean in order to filter spam, trolls, or bots?

Users and items (stories, comments) are lazily loaded from disk to make restarts faster.

I did a few quick calculations, most of which were uninteresting. The only thing that's remotely notable is:

0.07% of the users (the top 100) account for 34.7% of the karma.

Numbers in easily consumable python form: