The flu is a familiar disease, and young people with strong immune systems rarely die from it or experience long-term health consequences from having had it. So it’s not scary to most people, because they’ve never lived through a flu outbreak as bas as the spanish flu, and because they don’t know anyone for whom getting the flu would be a death sentence.

But Covid was a worse pandemic because when it infects, it can be completely benign or completely suffocating, and there’s very little way of knowing which will happen to you. And if you do get it, there’s a much higher chance it leaves serious scars that you’ll carry for the rest of your life.

People need to treat bad things as bad and be willing to set aside familiarity and comfort for the safety and well-being of others. Instead they downplay how bad something they don’t understand is going to be, because they want others to believe the same and not change their behavior, because their own comfort is more important than protecting the people who will be hurt the most

If you’re writing sloppy C code your assembly code probably won’t work either

Your game will actually likely be more efficient if written in C. The gcc compiler has become ridiculously optimized and probably knows more tricks than you do.

If Torvalds was Satoshi he would have done a lot more with those untouched bitcoin than let them sit around for more than a decade